Bury Old Road

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 children’s homes known as hostels.

There was room for 14 members of the Boys in the hostel but it is thought only 6 of the Boys lived here. The hostel was already used for boys who had come to the UK on Kindertransport and the Boys had trouble mixing with them, which was not unusual.

Rabbi Weiss, who had been in Windermere spent time at the hostel.

The hostel was considered dissatisfactory and closed in early 1946. The remaining Boys in the hostel wre moved to the Northumberland St hostel.