Zenek Szwartzberg

Szwartzberg was born in 1929 in Będzin, Poland, 90km west of Kraków.

Szwartzberg 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 Zenek-Swartzenberg in the ORT Marine school.

Zenek Swartzenberg in the ORT Marine school.

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Name:
Zenek Szwartzberg
Birthplace:
Będzin, Poland
Lone Child:
no
Hidden Child:
no
Deportation destination:
Auschwitz
Liberation:
Auschwitz II-Birkenau
Displaced Person Camp:
Belsen-Hohne DP Camp
Repatriation:
no
Return Home:
yes
Arrival in UK:
October 1945
Group:
Point of Arrival:
Southampton
Left UK:
Unknown
Destination:
USA
Settled in:
USA
Testament:
None
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