Erwin Buncel

Buncel was born in 1931 in Prešov in Czechoslovakia, now part of Slovakia.

Buncel 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 Julius and Erwin Buncel in 1940, Prešov, Czechoslovakia.

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Name:
Erwin Buncel
Also known as:
Naftali Hoffman
Lone Child:
no
Hidden Child:
no
Deportation destination:
Auschwitz
Liberation:
Unknown
Displaced Person Camp:
Košice
Repatriation:
unknown
Return Home:
unknown
Arrival in UK:
March 1946
Group:
Settled in:
UK
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