Hans Joseph Heinemann

The Central British Fund (CBF) put together a large team of people to look after the Boys.

The Boys were teenage and child-Holocaust survivors, who were brought to the UK after the war for rest and rehabilitation.

The British government offered 1,000 visas to bring the Boys to the UK but the caveat was that the CBF were responsible for their care and would pay all the expenses.

Heinemann was born in 1915 and studied at the Yeshiva in Mir, Poland. He became a leading ideologue of German religious Zionist Orthodoxy and one of the preeminent liturgical and Aggadah scholars of the 20th century. His tract Torah and Social Order was a 1940s religious bestseller. His most famous work was Prayer in the Talmud: Forms and Patterns.

Heinemann served as a rabbi on the Kindertransport. He spent World War II in Manchester and supported students at Whittingehame Farm School in East Lothian, a boarding school attended by many Kindertransport children .

His wife Eva Carlebach was the matron of Great Chesterford hostel.

Heinemann eventually went to Israel in 1949.

Eva died in 1966 and Heinemann in 1978.