Sidi Una Levy

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.

Levy worked as the cook at Whittingehame Farm School from 1939-1941. It was a training farm intended to prepare young Jewish people for life in the Palestine Mandate.

Levy then worked at Thaxted Farm. Thaxted was a farm in Essex, in southern England, run by the religious Zionist youth movement Bachad.

Levy then became the matron at Millisle hostel in Northern Ireland where she replaced Mrs Friedmann, the wife of Dr Fridolin ‘Ginger’ Friedmann. Part of the third group of the Boys brought to the UK in 1946 were looked after in the hostel.