Sipora Berkovic

Berkovic was born on 19 January 1929 in Velkiý Bočkov in the Carpathian Mountains, which was then part of Czechoslovakia. Part of the town was in Romania. 

Berkovic was a member of a group of Holocaust survivors known as the Boys, despite the fact the group consisted of over 200 girls. 

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

Members of the Boys were held in Nazi labour and concentration camps and used as slave labourers. They had also survived World War II in hiding or as lone children.

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Name:
Sipora Berkovic
Also known as:
Cipi Berkovic
Yiddish Name:
Bicskof
Hungarian Name 1938 - 1945:
Nagybocskó
Current Name:
Velykyi Bychkiv, Ukraine/Bocicoiul Mare, Romania
Lone Child:
no
Hidden Child:
no
Deportation destination:
Auschwitz
Liberation:
Lenzing, Austria
Repatriation:
no
Return Home:
unknown
Arrival in UK:
March 1946
Group:
Point of Arrival:
Northolt, London, UK
Left UK:
29 October 1948
Destination:
USA
Settled in:
USA
Testament:
None
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