Herman Alter was born Zvi Hersh Alter on 22 January 1928 in the village of Kobylets’ka Polyana in the Carpathian Mountains, then the most easterly part of Czechoslovakia.
Alter 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 the war 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.
Young Herman Alter (L), Polyana, 1930
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