Josefa Kalir

Kalir was born Josefa Freilichova was born in 1929 in Visni-Bystra in the Carpathian Mountains which were then the most easterly part of Czechoslovakia.

Kalir 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.

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Name:
Josefa Kalir
Also known as:
Josefa Freilichova
Lone Child:
unknown
Hidden Child:
unknown
Liberation:
Unknown
Repatriation:
unknown
Return Home:
unknown
Arrival in UK:
March 1946
Group:
Point of Arrival:
Belfast, Northern Ireland
Hostels:
Millisle
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