Jan Goldberger

Goldberger was born in 1927 in the southern industrial Polish city of Bielsko-Biała, which was on the Polish-Czech-German border.

Goldberger 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 Jan Goldberger sitting on a car.

Jan Goldberger sitting on a car after World War II.

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Name:
Jan Goldberger
Yiddish Name:
Belits-Biala
Lone Child:
yes
Hidden Child:
no
Deportation destination:
Kraków-Płaszów
Liberation:
Theresienstadt Ghetto
Displaced Person Camp:
Terezín
Belgická Orphanage
Repatriation:
no
Return Home:
no
Arrival in UK:
August 1945
Group:
Point of Arrival:
Crosby-on-Eden, UK
Settled in:
UK
Testament:
US Shoah Foundation & Lake District Holocaust Project
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