Bromberg-Ost to Sachsenhausen-Oranienberg

Members of the Boys were held in Nazi labour and concentration camps and used as slave labourers.

From 1933-1945 Nazi Germany operated over 1,000 concentration camps and subcamps in its own territory and across German occupied Europe. Among them was the Bromberg-Ost labour camp, a subcamp of the Stutthof concentration camp.

As the camps were dissolved thousands of people among them members of the Boys endured horrific evacuations from the camps on foot, in freight wagons and open top trains, as well as perilous journey across the Baltic Sea. 

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

The camp was evacuated in January 1945.

The survivors were taken on a death march to Sachsenhausen-Oranienberg, a distance of 430km.

The Bromberg-Ost camp was located in the Polish city of Bydgoszcz.

The evacuation route, lead towards Koronowo (Krone), then to Mąkowarsko (Monkowarsk), and toward Sępólno Krajeńskie (Zempelburg). Those who could not keep up were shot and mortality rose because of the cold and snow. Some prisoners managed to escape.

In Tempelburg on 29 January 1945, the Latvian escort handed the women over to Volkssturm units that convoyed the column to Falkenburg (Złocieńiec). Again some prisoners escaped. The remaining female prisoners were liberated in Falkenburg on 4 February 1945.