Lionel de Rothschild

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.

Lionel Nathan de Rothschild (1882–1942) was a British banker, politician. A member of the prominent Rothschild banking family, he was a leading figure in the British Jewish community.

In 1933, in response to Hitler’s rise to power, Rothschild co-founded the Central British Fund for German Jewry (CBF) alongside Otto Schiff and Leonard Montefiore. The CBF’s primary mission was to raise and distribute funds to support German Jews fleeing Nazi persecution, and later to organise the arrival and rehabilitation of the Boys in the UK.

Rothschild was a key figure in organising and funding the Kindertransport, which brought around 10,000 Jewish children to the UK between 1938 and 1939.

Beyond his work with the CBF, Rothschild served as President of the Anglo-Jewish Association and was actively involved in numerous communal charities and relief efforts.

Rothschild died in 1942.