Vojteck Pollak

Vojtech Pollak was born in in Miskolc, Hungary on 6 August 1929.

Pollak 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 Baruch Pollak.

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Heniek ‘Henry’ Golde

Heniek Golde was born in Płock, Poland on 5 May 1929.

Golde 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.

Henry Golde in Windermere 1945
Henry Golde in Windermere 1945
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Israel Taub

Taub was born Israel Herskovic on 24 July 1928 in Mukačevo in the Carpathian Mountains which were then the most easterly part of Czechoslovakia.

Taub 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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Eva Schwartz

Schwartz was born on 11 July 1934 in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, now the capital of Slovakia.

Schwartz 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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Alec Walters

Walters was born Adolf Wasserzeicher in the Polish industrial city of Łódź in 1931.

Walters 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.

Alec Walters

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Elfriede Tomor (née Zahler)

Tomor was born Elfriede Zahler in Vienna, Austria, in 1936.

Tomor 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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Hilda Wachsmann

Wachsmann was born to parents Abraham and Rozi on 15 December 1929 in Budapest, Hungary.

Wachsmann 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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Moshe Rosenberg

Moshe Rosenberg was born in Kraków in Poland in 1927.

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.

Photograph of Moshe Rosenberg's Family before World War II.
Moshe Rosenberg’s Family before World War II.
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David Turek

Turek was born in the Polish capital Warsaw in 1929.

Turek 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 David Turek
David Turek
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Gad Josef

Gad Josef was born in Berlin, Germany, in 1942.

Josef 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 Children in Bulldogs Bank hostel.
The Children in Bulldogs Bank hostel.
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