Lola Hahn-Warburg

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.

Hahn-Warburg was a key member of the Committee for the Care of the Concentration Camp Children. 

Born in 1901, she was the daughter of a leading Berlin banker, Max Warburg, and sister-in-law of educationalist Kurt Hahn.

She fled Germany with her husband and two children in 1938.

She joined the Central British Fund soon after arriving in London and played an important part in the pre-war Kindertransport.

Hahn-Warburg was in the Windermere reception centre and immediately set about organising for the care of the children with tuberculosis.

The Kindertransport and the Boys were only two of her successes in saving children’s lives. Shortly before her death, she also helped to rescue children from Ayatollah Khomeini’s Iran and Mengistu’s Ethiopia.

Hahn-Warburg died in 1989.