Jakob Fersztand - '45 Aid Society

Fersztand was born in Kozienice, south of Warsaw in Poland, in 1930.

Fersztand 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.

Photograph of Jacob Fersztand in Ascot, 1945.

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Name:

Jakob Fersztand

Birthplace:

Masovian Voivodeship, Poland

Ghetto:

Kozienice Ghetto

Lone Child:

Hidden Child:

yes

Deportation destination:

Pionki

Camps:

Pionki
Skarżysko-Kamienna
Częstochowa-HASAG
Buchenwald

Death March/Train:

Buchenwald to Theresienstadt

Liberation:

Theresienstadt Ghetto

Displaced Person Camp:

Terezín
Belgická Orphanage

Repatriation:

Return Home:

Arrival in UK:

August 1945

Group:

The first group

Point of Arrival:

Crosby-on-Eden, UK

Hostels:

Windermere
Ascot
Garnethill

Destination:

Switzerland

Lived in:

Main Quilt:

Gallery:

Photograph of Boys in Ascot. Jacob Fersztand on the left.