Eva Farkas

Farkas was born in Bratislava in Czechoslovakia, now the Slovak capital, in 1934.

Farkas 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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Icek Alterman

Alterman was born in 1928 in Ozarów in southern Poland but moved to nearby Ostrowiec as a young child.

Alterman 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.

Ike Alterman in Windermere 1945
Ike Alterman in Windermere 1945

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Herman Alter

Herman Alter was born Zvi Hersh Alter on 22 January 1928 in the village of Kobylets’ka Polyana in the Carpathian Mountains, then the most easterly part of Czechoslovakia. 

Alter 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 the war 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.

Young Herman Alter (L), Polana, 1930
Young Herman Alter (L), Polyana, 1930
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Lola Alexandrowicz

Alexandrowicz was born in Ostrowiec in southern Poland in 1929.

Alexandrowicz 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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Alexander Friedmann

Friedmann was born on 22 November 1929 in Svalyava, Czechoslovakia, now Svaljus, Ukraine in the Carpathian Mountains, which were then in the most easterly part of Czechoslovakia.

Freidmann 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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Ignac Ajzykowicz

Ajzykowicz was born on 30 June 1931 in the village of Zádnya, Czechoslovakia in the Carpathian Mountains.

Ajzykowicz 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 Stern

Stern was born in 1929 in Užhorod in the Carpathian mountains which were 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 Boys in the Third Group of the Boys, 1946.
List of the Boys in the Third Group of the Boys, 1946.
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Stepanka Dennett (neé Zweig)

Dennett was born Stepanka Zweig was born in 1930 in Rachov in the Carpathian Mountains which were then the most easterly part of Czechoslovakia.

Dennett 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 Stepanka Dennett

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Emil Stein

Stein was born Emil Steinbrecher in Będzin in Poland in 1930.

Stein 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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Moses Steinmetz

Steinmetz was born in 1928 in Dubove in Czechoslovakia, now part of Ukraine.

Steinmatz 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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