Henry Oscar Joseph

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.

Joseph was a British-born banker whose father had come from Germany. He was the treasurer of the Committee for the Care of the Concentration Camp Children.

Joseph was the chairman of the council for the Central British Fund for Jewish Relief and Rehabilitation. The fund had been created after World War I as a memorial to British Jewish soldiers killed in action.

Joseph went to Vienna immediately after the end of the war to help the survivors and refugees.

He was awarded an OBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours in 1968.

Joseph died in 1988. He is remembered very fondly by the Boys. In his obituary he was described by Ben Helfgott as “the very paragon of good manners, unobtrusive, easily approachable, and ready to proffer wise and practical counsel.”