Alfred Buchführer

Buchführer was born to parents Herman and Regina on 22 May 1926 in Düsseldorf, Germany.

Buchführer was a member of a group of Holocaust survivors known as the Boys, despite the fact the group consisted of over 200 girls. 

The Boys were teenage and child-Holocaust survivors, who were brought to the UK after World War II for rest and rehabilitation.

Members of the Boys were held in Nazi labour and concentration camps and used as slave labourers, survived World War II in hiding or as lone children.

Photograph of Alfred Buchfuehrer in Kloster Indersdorf, Germany in 1945.

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Liliana Pertoldi (née Bucci)

Bucci was born in 1937 Fiume in Italy which is now Rijeka in Croatia.

Bucci was a member of a group of Holocaust survivors known as the Boys, despite the fact the group consisted of over 200 girls. 

The Boys were teenage and child-Holocaust survivors, who were brought to the UK after World War II for rest and rehabilitation.

Members of the Boys were held in Nazi labour and concentration camps and used as slave labourers. They had also survived World War II in hiding or as lone children.

Photograph of Tatiana and Alessandra Bucci in the Weir Courtney hostel.

Tatiana and Alessandra Bucci in the Weir Courtney hostel.

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Herman Gruenfeld

Gruenfeld was born in 1928 in Kivijadz, Czechoslovakia.

Gruenfeld was a member of a group of Holocaust survivors known as the Boys, despite the fact the group consisted of over 200 girls. 

The Boys were teenage and child-Holocaust survivors, who were brought to the UK after World War II for rest and rehabilitation.

Members of the Boys were held in Nazi labour and concentration camps and used as slave labourers, they had also survived World War II in hiding or as lone children.

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Andra Pezzoni (née Bucci)

Bucci was born in 1939 in Fiume in Italy, which is now Rijeka in Croatia.

Bucci was a member of a group of Holocaust survivors known as the Boys, despite the fact the group consisted of over 200 girls. 

The Boys were teenage and child-Holocaust survivors, who were brought to the UK after World War II for rest and rehabilitation.

Members of the Boys were held in Nazi labour and concentration camps and used as slave labourers, survived World War II in hiding or as lone children.

Photograph of Tatiana and Alessandra Bucci in the Weir Courtney hostel.
Tatiana and Alessandra Bucci in the Weir Courtney hostel.
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Magda Rosenberg (née Herskovic)

Rosenberg was born Magda Herskovic on 11 December 1928 in Irshava in the Carpathian Mountains, which was then the most easterly part of Czechoslovakia.

Rosenberg was a member of a group of Holocaust survivors known as the Boys, despite the fact the group consisted of over 200 girls. 

The Boys were teenage and child-Holocaust survivors, who were brought to the UK after World War II for rest and rehabilitation.

Members of the Boys were held in Nazi labour and concentration camps and used as slave labourers, they had also survived World War II in hiding or as lone children.

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Abraham Hejnochowitz

Hejnochowitz was born on 7 April 1930 to parents Benjamin and Fella in Łódź, Poland.

Hejnochowitz was a member of a group of Holocaust survivors known as the Boys, despite the fact the group consisted of over 200 girls.

The Boys were teenage and child-Holocaust survivors, who were brought to the UK after World War II for rest and rehabilitation.

Members of the Boys were held in Nazi labour and concentration camps and used as slave labourers, survived World War II in hiding or as lone children.

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Heinz Herzberg

Herzberg was born on 23 January 1930 in Vienna, Austria.

Herzberg was a member of a group of Holocaust survivors known as the Boys, despite the fact the group consisted of over 200 girls. 

The Boys were teenage and child-Holocaust survivors, who were brought to the UK after World War II for rest and rehabilitation.

Members of the Boys were held in Nazi labour and concentration camps and used as slave labourers. They had also survived World War II in hiding or as lone children.

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Ladislav Heimfeld

Heimfeld was born on 27 October 1927 in Chust in the Carpathian Mountains which were then the most easterly part of Czechoslovakia.

Heimfeld was a member of a group of Holocaust survivors known as the Boys, despite the fact the group consisted of over 200 girls. 

The Boys were teenage and child-Holocaust survivors, who were brought to the UK after World War II for rest and rehabilitation.

Members of the Boys were held in Nazi labour and concentration camps and used as slave labourers. They had also survived World War II in hiding or as lone children.

Photograph of the List of the Fourth Group of the Boys in the London Metropolitan Archives.
The List of the Fourth Group of the Boys in the London Metropolitan Archives.
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Martin Hecht

Hecht was born in Ruscova, Transylvania on 2 March 1931.

Hecht was a member of a group of Holocaust survivors known as the Boys, despite the fact the group consisted of over 200 girls. 

The Boys were teenage and child-Holocaust survivors, who were brought to the UK after World War II for rest and rehabilitation.

Members of the Boys were held in Nazi labour and concentration camps and used as slave labourers. They had also survived World War II in hiding or as lone children.

Photograph of Martin Hecht in Kloster Indersdorf, Germany in 1945.
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Simon Brody

Brody was born in Michalovce in Czechoslovakia, now part of Slovakia, in 1929. Before the war broke out he was living in Mukačevo in Czechoslovakia, which was then the most easterly part of Czechoslovakia. It is now Mukachevo in Ukraine.

Brody was a member of a group of Holocaust survivors known as the Boys, despite the fact the group consisted of over 200 girls.

The Boys were teenage and child-Holocaust survivors, who were brought to the UK after World War II for rest and rehabilitation.

Members of the Boys were held in Nazi labour and concentration camps and used as slave labourers. They had also survived World War II in hiding or as lone children.

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