Ruzena Markow (née Hollander)

Hollander was born on 28 March 1927 in Kivjadz in the Carpathian Mountains, which was then the most easterly part of Czechoslovakia.

Hollander 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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Name:
Ruzena Markow (née Hollander)
Also known as:
Rozy Markow/Markowiecki
Hungarian Name 1938 - 1945:
Ilosva
Current Name:
Irshava, Ukraine
Lone Child:
no
Hidden Child:
no
Deportation destination:
Auschwitz
Liberation:
Bergen-Belsen
Displaced Person Camp:
Belsen-Hohne DP Camp
Repatriation:
yes
Return Home:
yes
Arrival in UK:
June 1946
Group:
Point of Arrival:
Newhaven, UK
Left UK:
1948
Settled in:
USA
Testament:
US Shoah Foundation
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