Judith Sherman (née Stern)

Sherman was born Judita Stern on 23 December 1929 in Kurima, Czechoslovakia.

Sherman 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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Peter Stroh

Stroh was born to parents Katalina and Paul on 13 May 1931 in Budapest, Hungary.

Stroh 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 Peter Stroh in Kloster Indersdorf, Germany in 1945.
Peter Stroh in Kloster Indersdorf, Germany in 1945.

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Eliska Stern

Stern was born on 13 December 1930 in Svalyava, 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 Stern family before World War II.
The Stern family before World War II.

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Michael Novice

Michael Novice was born Meir Sosnowicz in the Polish capital Warsaw in 1927.

Novice 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 Novice c 1946.

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Moses Steinkeller

Steinkeller was born to parents Hinda and Jankiel, a cattle trader, on 6 August 1928 in Zakrzowek, a now a suburb of Kraków, Poland.

Steinkeller 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 Moses Steinkeller in Kloster Indersdorf, Germany in 1945.
Moses Steinkeller in Kloster Indersdorf, Germany 1945.

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Helena Slomovic

Slomovic was born in 1929 in Velyka Dobron, now in Ukraine.

Slomovic 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.

Photohraph of Right-to-left: Irene Mermelstein, Helen Slomowitz and Erika Vermes.
Right-to-left: Irene Mermelstein, Helen Slomovic and Erika Vermes.

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Menachem Silberstein

Silberstein was born in the Polish industrial city of Łódź in 1927.

Silberstein 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 Menachem Silberstein

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Sidney Baker

Baker was born Shaul Bekierman in 1927 in Chmielnik, southern-central Poland.

Baker 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.

Sidney Baker in Windermere in 1945
Sidney Baker in Windermere in 1945

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Sidney Finkel

Finkel was born Sevek Finkelstein in Łódź in central Poland in 1931.

Finkel 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 Sidney Finkel passing Gad Josef to his older brother as they arrive in Windermere in August 1945.
Sidney Finkel passing Gad Josef to his older brother as they arrive in Windermere in August 1945.

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Motek Seligfeld

Seligfeld was born in Kraków in Poland in 1929.

Seligfeld 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 also survived in hiding and as lone children.

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