Dr Fridolin Moritz Max Friedmann

The Central British Fund (CBF) put together a large team of people to look after the Boys.

The Boys were teenage and child-Holocaust survivors, who were brought to the UK after the war for rest and rehabilitation.

The British government offered 1,000 visas to bring the Boys to the UK but the caveat was that the CBF were responsible for their care and would pay all the expenses.

Friedmann was born in Bavaria, Germany in 1987. After receiving his doctorate in 1925, he taught at various schools, becoming headmaster of a Jewish school at Caputh, near Potsdam. From 1937 to 1939, he taught in Berlin.

In 1939, Friedmann accompanied a number of the Kindertransport and remained in the UK, where he taught at a Zionist farm camp training youth to go to Palestine.

In October 1945, he took charge of the second group of the Boys at the Wintershill Hall reception centre. In 1946, he moved to Millisle hostel where he took care of some of the third group of the Boys that had been brought to the UK.

Later in 1946, he taught at Bunce Court school. However, his relationship with Anna Essinger, the headmistress of the school since its inception in Germany in 1926, was difficult, and Friedmann left.

He then taught at Carmel College. He championed the role of art, music and culture in education.

Friedmann died in 1976.