Jadwiga  Kaufman

Kaufman was born Jadwiga Balsam in 1932 in Piorków in Poland.

Kaufman 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 feral children.

Photograph of Jadwiga Kaufman
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Name:
Jadwiga Kaufman
Also known as:
Jadwiga Balsam
Yiddish Name:
Petrikev
Lone Child:
yes
Hidden Child:
yes
Displaced Person Camp:
Terezín
Belgická Orphanage
Repatriation:
no
Return Home:
yes
Arrival in UK:
August 1945
Group:
Point of Arrival:
Crosby-on-Eden, UK
Settled in:
USA
Testament:
None
Main Quilt:
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