Norman Bentwich

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.

Norman Bentwich (1883–1971) was a British barrister, well known for his advocacy of Jewish legal and civil rights.

He was Attorney General of Mandatory Palestine from 1922 to 1931, where he was responsible for drafting laws and helping establish the legal system during the British Mandate. He survived an assassination attempt on his life in 1929 by a member of the Palestinian police and was forced to resign in 1931.

Returning to Britain in the 1930s, Bentwich became a key figure in refugee relief. He was a senior member of the Central British Fund for German Jewry (CBF) from its founding in 1933, helping coordinate the British government’s response to Jewish refugees escaping Nazi Europe, including the Kindertransport. He attended the Évian Conference in France as a representative of the Council for German Jewry in an attempt to persuade world leaders to adopt less restrictive immigration policies.

Bentwich was one of the key figures involved with the Committee for the Care of the Concentration Camp Children, assisting the arrival and resettlement of the Boys.

He died in London in 1971.