History

A to Z of names

The members of the Boys arrived in the UK between 1945 and 1946. The visas were given by the Central British Fund (CBF) scheme which ended in 1948.

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.

A handful of the Boys made their way separately to the United Kingdom and arrived on different visas.

They became a core part of the Boys and founding members of the ’45 Aid Society. These individuals are identified with an asterisk (*) after their name.

 

Photograph of the first group of the Boys in Prague 1945.
Photograph of the youngest members of the first group of the Boys in the Windermere reception centre.

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