Pauline Staman (née Berkovic)

Staman was born Cipora Berkovic on 19 January 1929 in Velkiý Bočkov in the Carpathian Mountains, which was then part of Czechoslovakia. Part of the town was in Romania.

Staman 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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Name:

Pauline Staman (née Berkovic)

Also known as:

Cipora Berkovic

Birthplace:

Velky Bockov, Czechoslovakia

Yiddish Name:

Bicskof

Hungarian Name 1938 - 1945:

Nagybocskó

Current Name:

Velykyi Bychkiv, Ukraine/Bocicoiul Mare, Romania

Ghetto:

Mátészalka Ghetto

Lone Child:

Hidden Child:

Deportation destination:

Auschwitz

Camps:

Auschwitz
Lenzing

Liberation:

Lenzing, Austria

Repatriation:

Return Home:

unknown

Arrival in UK:

March 1946

Group:

The third group

Point of Arrival:

Northolt, London, UK

Hostels:

The Jews’ Temporary Shelter
Montford Hall
Blackpool
Great Clewes Street

Left UK:

29 October 1948

Destination:

USA

Settled in:

USA

Testament:

Pittsnurgh Holocaust Centre

Main Quilt: