Jacob Melzer

Melzer was born in 1930 in Warsaw in Poland.

Melzer 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 Jack Melczer.

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Name:
Jacob Melzer
Birthplace:
Warsaw, Poland
Lone Child:
no
Hidden Child:
no
Deportation destination:
Częstochowa-HASAG
Liberation:
Auschwitz
Displaced Person Camp:
Terezín
Repatriation:
no
Return Home:
unknown
Arrival in UK:
August 1945
Point of Arrival:
Crosby-on-Eden, UK
Hostels:
Windermere
Settled in:
UK
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Gallery:
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