Ester Weisner

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.

Weisner was born in Magdeburg, Germany in 1923. Her parents were Abraham Wiesner, a textile merchant, and Frieda Wiesner. She arrived in the UK before World War II.

Wiesner’s father was taken to Buchenwald concentration camp in October 1939. He died in the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and extermination camp in Nazi-occupied Poland in March 1943. Her mother was sent to the Warsaw Ghetto in July 1942 with her sister, Lily, who was also murdered in the Holocaust.

Wiesner was a member of Bachad and worked at the hostels in lIverpool, St Asaph and Ascot.

Her first husband was a doctor from Liverpool, Dr Sidney Newman. She married twice and had two children.

She died on Kibbutz Lavi in 2004.