Charles Shane

Shane was born Chaim Szlamberg in the Polish industrial city of Łódź on 31 December 1927.

Shane 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.

Photograph of Charlie Shane.

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Name:
Charles Shane
Also known as:
Chaim Szlamberg
Birthplace:
Łódź, Poland
Yiddish Name:
Lodzh
Lone Child:
no
Hidden Child:
no
Deportation destination:
Buchenwald
Liberation:
Theresienstadt Ghetto
Displaced Person Camp:
Terezín
Belgická Orphanage
Repatriation:
no
Return Home:
unknown
Arrival in UK:
August 1945
Group:
Point of Arrival:
Crosby-on-Eden
Military Service:
Machal Volunteer
Left UK:
1948
Destination:
Israel
Settled in:
UK
Testament:
US Shoah Foundation
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