Pinkas was born on 15 July 1929 in Novoselic, Czechoslovakia, now part of Ukraine.
Pinkas 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, survived World War II in hiding or as lone children.
List of the Third Group of the Boys, 1946.