The Millisle Boys

The Millisle Boys arrived in the UK from Prague in the spring of 1946. They were cared for in the Millisle hostel in Northern Ireland.

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.

The organisations like the Central British Fund who cared for the orphaned Jewish child survivors took photographs of the children in their care. They played a key role in their rehabilitation by providing them with keepsakes and memories.

The members of the Boys in the Millisle hostel in Northern Ireland were given these photographs.