Rayber was born on 3 March 1928 to parents Abrah and Malka in Klobuck, southwestern Poland.
Rayber 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.
Deportation
Rayber was in the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp.
In 1942 he was moved to the Blechhammer concentration camp. Blechhammer was the second largest subcamp of Auschwitz.
He was then moved on a death march to the Gross Rosen concentration camp, before being taken to Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany in February 1945.
Rayber was liberated from the Theresienstadt Ghetto by the Soviet Red Army on 8 May 1945 after enduring a death train.
Baruch Rayber’s Journey 1939-1945
Pre-war Life: Klobuck, Poland. Forced Journey: → Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp → Blechhammer subcamp → Death march and death train to Buchenwald concentration camp → Death march to the Theresienstadt Ghetto. After liberation: → Prague, Czechoslovakia → Joins 1st Group of the Boys → Windermere reception centre, UK.
A New Life
Rayber arrived in the UK in August 1945 as part of the first group of the Boys. He spent time at the Windermere reception centre.
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