Blackpool

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

The Boys had survived the Holocaust as slave labourers in the Nazi concentration camp system, in hiding and by living alone.

After arrival in the UK, members of the Boys spent time in the reception centres before being moved to children’s homes known as hostels. Others were sent direct to boarding school or yeshivas, and those who were sick spent time in sanatoriums.

Some of the members of the Boys were lucky enough to find relatives or were taken in by foster families but the majority were moved to hostels.

Blackpool was one of these hostels.

The hostel was primarily used as holiday accommodation but some members of the Boys lived here permanently. Many of the girls who came to live at the Blackpool hostel had like Sipora Berkovic previously been in the Montford Hall hostel.