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    Films

    History of The Boys

    History of The Boys
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    DVD- The Boys – Triumph Over Adversity

    The ’45 Aid Society have made and have collected a number of films that illustrate the story of the Boys.

    The Boys were teenage and child-Holocaust survivors, who were brought to the UK after the war for rest and rehabilitation.

    14 August 1945
    The First Group
    The Southampton Boys
    Photograph of the Southampton Boys
    Second Group
    The Belsen Boys Arrive
    Photograph of the Belsen-Hohne DP Camp 1945.
    Second Group
    Chief Rabbi’s Emergency Council
    Photograph of Rabbi Solomon Schonfeld
    Third/Fourth/Fifth Group
    Stories of the Boys
    IWM footage of first transport to Carlisle from Prague 14th August 1945, front right blonde is Sam Laskier
    Chapter 1
    Stories of the Boys
    Photograph of the Girls at Kershaw House.
    Chapter 2
    Stories of the Boys
    Photograph of the Boys in the Finchley Road hostel.
    Chapter 3
    Stories of the Boys
    Renate Strauss: three friends sipping milk from straws England ca 1946
    Chapter 4
    Meet the Boys
    Photograph of the first group of the Boys in Prague in 1945.
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