Kitty Rosen

Rosen was born in Graz in Austria in 1930.

Rosen 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 Kitty Rosen

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Ester Rezmocicova

Rezmocicova was born in 1929 in Slatinske-Doly, now in Ukraine, in the Carpathian Mountains, which were then in the most easterly part of Czechoslovakia.

Rezmocicova 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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Avrom Dichter

Dichter was born in Hrubieszow, not far from Lublin, in eastern in Poland in 1930.

Dichter 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 Abe Dichter

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Jack Kagan

Kagan, born in 7 April 1929 in Novogrudek, Poland.

Kagan 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 Jack Kagan
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Zygmunt ‘Zigi’ Shipper

Shipper was born on 18 January 1930 in Łódź, in Poland.

Shipper 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 Joe Rents and Zigi Shipper
Joe Rents and Zigi Shipper.
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Meir Stern

Stern was born on 30 April 1929 in Svalyava, Czechoslovakia, before moving to nearby Mukačevo, in the Carpathian Mountains, where he grew up.

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 Meir and Marion Stern
Meir and Marion Stern.
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Jackie Young

Young was born Jona Spiegel in the Austrian capital Vienna in 1941.

Young 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 Jackie Young at Crosby-on-Eden airfield in August 1945.
Jackie Young at Crosby-on-Eden airfield, August 1945.

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Abraham Wolreich

Wolreich was born in Piotrków in Poland in 1930.

Wolreich 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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Josef Grossman

Grossman was born on 18 August 1928 in Užhorod in the Carpathian Mountains, which was then the most easterly part of Czechoslovakia.

Grossman 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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Stephen Wolkowicz

Wolkowicz was born in the industrial city of Łódż in 1931.

Wolkowicz 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 Stephen Wolkowitz just after the liberation.
Wolkowitz just after liberation, Prague 1945.

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