Bianca Gordon

The Central British Fund (CBF) put together a large team of people to look after the Boys.

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

The British government offered 1,000 visas to bring the Boys to the UK but the caveat was that the CBF were responsible for their care and would pay all the expenses.

Bianca Gordon was born in Berlin and came to Britain on the second Kindertransport after the Kristallnacht pogrom of November 1939. She was fostered by the Rev. Walter Roberts and his wife.

Gordon studied Social Science at Birmingham University and Mental Health at the London School of Economics. She was on the staff of the Hampstead Child Therapy Clinic for 26 years, where she worked closely with Anna Freud.

She married David Wolfgang Gordon, who was the warden of the Nightingale hostel. She also worked closely with the Lingfield children.