Moniek Shannon

Shannon was born Moniek Szajnzicht on 28 October 1932 in Dęblin, Poland.

Shannon 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.

Cesia Szajnzicht (back left) pictured arriving in the UK with her brother Moniek (back right).
Moniek Szajnzicht (back right) pictured arriving in the UK with his sister Cesia (back left).
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Moric Sobov

Sobov was born Moric Szebov was born in 1929 in Tacovo in the Carpathian Mountains which was then the most easterly part of Czechoslovakia.

Sobov 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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Charles Shane

Shane was born Chaim Szlamberg in the Polish industrial city of Łódź on 31 December 1927.

Shane 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 Charlie Shane.

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Michael Stern

Stern was born Mietek Szternfeld in Zgierz in central Poland in 1930.

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.

Mietek Szternfeld ID Card
Mietek Szternfeld’s ID Card

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Dan Szurek

Szurek was born in the Polish industrial city of Łódź in 1930.

Szurek 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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Szmul Szyler

Szyler was born on 25 May 1930 in Poland.

Szyler 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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Motel Tabacznik

Tabacznik was born in Dęblin in eastern Poland in 1928.

Tabacznik 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 Mottel Kirszberg and Alf Tabacznik Jan 1946.
Mottel Kirszberg and Alf Tabacznik Jan 1946.

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Rachel Levy (née Slomovic)

Levy was born Ruzena Slomovic in 1930 in Bhutz in the Carpathian mountains which were then the most easterly part of Czechoslovakia.

Levy 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 Rachel Levy as a young woman.
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Josef Moscowicz

Moscowicz was born in Krosno in south-eastern Poland in 1936.

Moscowicz 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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Edita Moscovicova

Moscovicova was born in 1929 in Užhorod in the Carpathian Mountains, which was then the most easterly part of Czechoslovakia.

Moscovicova 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 Third Group of the Boys, 1946.
List of the Third Group of the Boys, 1946.

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