Renata Strauss

Strauss was born in Užhorod in the most easterly part of Czechoslovakia, now part of Ukraine.

Strauss 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 Renate Strauss in Prague 1945.
Renate Strauss in Prague 1945.

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Tamas Stern

Stern was born on 17 June 1929 in Užhorod in the Carpathian Mountains, which was then the most easterly part of Czechoslovakia.

Stern 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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Vera Stern

Stern was born in 1929 in the farming village of Rakosin in the Carpathian Mountains.

Stern 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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Jacob Strobecki

Strobecki was born in Weiluń in Poland in 1929.

Strobecki 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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Anton Tafler

Tafler was born in Oscá, Hungary, south of Budapest, on 13 September 1931.

Tafler 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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Arnost Sunog

Sunog was born on 15 August 1928 in Mukačevo, in the Carpathian Mountains in eastern Czechoslovakia.

Sunog 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 Arnost Sunog
Arnost Sunog

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Rose Schindler (neé Swartz)

Schindler was born Rushka Swartz in 1930 in Seredne in the Carpathian mountains which were then the most easterly part of Czechoslovakia. It was a small village midway between modern-day Uzhhorod and Mukachevo.

Schindler 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 Rose Schindler.

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Aron Swinik

Swinik was born to parents David and Miriam on 5 May 1934 in Minsk, Poland, now in Belarus.

Swinik 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 Aron Swinik in Kloster Indersdorf, Germany in 1945.
Aron Swinik

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Szyja Berliner

Berliner was born in Opatów in southern Poland.

Berliner 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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Cesia Szajnzicht

Szajnzicht was born on 25 December 1931 in Deblin, Poland.

Szajnzicht 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 1945 July, Prague, Czechoslovakia.
1945 July, Prague, Czechoslovakia.

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