Joe Diamond

Diamond was born Julius Diamantstein in 1929 in Seredně in the Carpathian Mountains, which were then the most easterly part of Czechoslovakia. 

Diamond 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 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:
Joe Diamond
Also known as:
Julius Diamantstein
Lone Child:
no
Hidden Child:
no
Deportation destination:
Auschwitz
Liberation:
Gunskirchen, Austria
Repatriation:
no
Return Home:
yes
Arrival in UK:
March 1946
Group:
Point of Arrival:
Belfast, Northern Ireland
Hostels:
Millisle
Military Service:
US Army
Left UK:
1948
Destination:
USA
Settled in:
USA
Testament:
US Shoah Foundation
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