Jackie Young - '45 Aid Society

Young was born Jona Spiegel in the Austrian capital Vienna in 1941.

Young 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 Jackie Young at Crosby-on-Eden airfield in August 1945.

^{Jackie Young at Crosby-on-Eden airfield, August 1945.}

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Name:

Jackie Young

Also known as:

Jona Spiegel

Birthplace:

Vienna, Austria

Ghetto:

Theresienstadt Ghetto

Lone Child:

Hidden Child:

Deportation destination:

Theresienstadt Ghetto

Liberation:

Theresienstadt Ghetto

Displaced Person Camp:

Pitter’s Castles

Repatriation:

Return Home:

Arrival in UK:

August 1945

Point of Arrival:

Crosby-on-Eden, UK

Hostels:

Windermere
Bulldogs Bank
Weir Courtney

Settled in:

Publication:

Jackie Young, Lost and Waiting to be Found (My Voice, 2024)

Adopted:

Yes

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