Helen Rieder

Rieder was born Helena Zelikovic in 1929 in Tacovo in the Carpathian Mountains, which was then the most easterly part of Czechoslovakia.

Rieder 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:
Helen Rieder
Also known as:
Helena Zelikovic
Yiddish Name:
Tetsh
Hungarian Name 1938 - 1945:
Téscö
Current Name:
Tachiv, Ukraine
Lone Child:
no
Hidden Child:
no
Deportation destination:
Auschwitz
Liberation:
Unknown
Repatriation:
yes
Return Home:
no
Arrival in UK:
March 1946
Group:
Point of Arrival:
Belfast, Northern Ireland
Hostels:
Millisle
Settled in:
USA
Testament:
California State University
Main Quilt:
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