Sarah Kornhauser - '45 Aid Society

Kornhauser was born Magda Liberman on 15 February 1933 in Plešivec in Czechoslovakia.

Kornhauser 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.

Feral Children
Kornhauser’s aunt, Helena, made a desperate choice after Germany invaded Hungary in March 1944. She asked her 12-year-old niece to look after her six-year-old son Fritz and her daughter Hedi and sent them on the run.
The three children fled, while Kornhauser’s aunt was forced to stay behind to care for her infant son and elderly parents. The children escaped to Budapest, where they survived wandering from place to place.
Decades later, when Fritz became a father, he realized the incredible responsibility placed on Kornhauser. “What an unbearable task to give a child,” he wrote. For eight months, the children endured starvation and hid, as Budapest was bombed by Russian and American forces. Eventually, they made their way to Prague.
Kornhauser, Friedmann and his sister were in the Belgická children’s home in Prague. The home was a Jewish orphanage established to care for survivors of the Holocaust. After liberation, they were taken to the children’s homes south of Prague run by the Christian philanthropist Premysl Pitter. They were a series of large country houses. Pitter cared not only for Jewish children but for the orphans of German families, who lived in Czechoslovakia and had been brutally expelled after the war.

Name:

Sarah Kornhauser

Also known as:

Magda Liberman

Birthplace:

Slovakia, Czechoslovakia

Lone Child:

yes

Hidden Child:

Repatriation:

Return Home:

unknown

Arrival in UK:

March 1946

Group:

The third group

Point of Arrival:

Northolt, London, UK

Hostels:

Weir Courtney

Left UK:

1950

Destination:

Israel

Gallery:

Renate Strauss: three friends sipping milk from straws England ca 1946