Josef and Traudel Honig

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.

Josef and Traudel were both born in Germany. They were madrichim in the Ascot hostel and members of the religious Zionist organisation Bachad. The couple also worked at Millisle hostel in Northern Ireland. In 1946, they took over running Manor House hostel.

They went to Kibbutz Lavi, Israel but later settled near Gaza. Josef was, according to the Boys who remembered him, an extremely talented musician.