Hugo Gryn - '45 Aid Society

Gryn was born Hugo Gruen in 1930 in Berehove, Czechoslovakia, then the most easterly part of the country.

Gryn 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:

Hugo Gryn

Also known as:

Hugo Gruen

Birthplace:

Berehove, Czechoslovakia

Hungarian Name 1938 - 1945:

Beregszász

Current Name:

Berehove, Ukraine

Ghetto:

Beregszász Ghetto

Lone Child:

Hidden Child:

Deportation destination:

Auschwitz

Camps:

Auschwitz
Lieberose
Sachsenhausen
Gunskirchen

Death March/Train:

Lieberose to Sachsenhausen

Liberation:

Gunskirchen, Austria

Repatriation:

Return Home:

yes

Arrival in UK:

March 1946

Group:

The third group

Point of Arrival:

Prestwick, Scotland

Hostels:

Polton House

Military Service:

Machal Volunteer

Left UK:

1948

Destination:

Israel

Lived in:

USA

Settled in:

Publication:

Hugo Gryn, with Naomi Gryn, Chasing Shadows (Penguin, 2001)

Testament:

Imperial War Museum

Main Quilt:

Quilt Square: