Martin Hecht - '45 Aid Society

Hecht was born in Ruscova, Transylvania on 2 March 1931.

Hecht 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 Martin Hecht in Kloster Indersdorf, Germany in 1945.

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Name:

Martin Hecht

Birthplace:

Maramureş, Romania

Ghetto:

Vișeu de Sus Ghetto

Lone Child:

Hidden Child:

Deportation destination:

Auschwitz

Camps:

Auschwitz
Riese
Flossenbürg

Death March/Train:

Riese to Gross Rosen
Flossenbürg to Dachau

Liberation:

On death march

Displaced Person Camp:

Kloster Indersdorf

Repatriation:

Return Home:

Arrival in UK:

October 1945

Group:

The second group

Point of Arrival:

Southampton, UK

Hostels:

Wintershill Hall

Left UK:

Unknown

Destination:

Israel

Testament:

US Shoah Foundation

Main Quilt:

Quilt Square:

Gallery:

Photograph of Martin Hecht ID from Kloster Indersdorf.