Sala Newton-Katz

Newton-Katz was born Sala Hochspiegel was born in Wolonów in Poland in 1929.

Newton-Katz 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.

Photograph of Sala Newton-Katz 2019.

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Name:
Sala Newton-Katz
Also known as:
Sala Hochspiegel
Birthplace:
Łódź, Poland
Yiddish Name:
Lodzh
Lone Child:
no
Hidden Child:
no
Deportation destination:
Auschwitz
Death March/Train:
Oederan to Theresienstadt
Liberation:
Theresienstadt Ghetto
Displaced Person Camp:
Terezín
Belgická Orphanage
Repatriation:
no
Return Home:
no
Arrival in UK:
August 1945
Group:
Point of Arrival:
Crosby-on-Eden, UK
Left UK:
Unknown
Destination:
Israel
Lived in:
UK
Settled in:
Israel
Testament:
US Shoah Foundation
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