Dyhernfurth to Gross Rosen

Members of the Boys were held in Nazi labour and concentration camps and used as slave labourers.

From 1933-1945 Nazi Germany operated over 1,000 concentration camps and subcamps in its own territory and across German occupied Europe. Among them was the Dyhernfurth labour camp, a subcamp of Gross Rosen concentration camp.

As the camps were dissolved thousands of people, among them members of the Boys, endured horrific evacuations from the camps on foot, in freight wagons and open top trains, as well as perilous journeys across the Baltic Sea. 

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

As the Red Army approached, on 24 January 1945, 3,000 prisoners were ordered on a death march to the main Gross-Rosen concentration camp.

The sick were shot on a railway bridge over the Oder at Środa Śląska. Only 1,000 prisoners survived the march.

 The trek to the main camp lasted two and a half days.

Tibor Salamon was then moved by train to Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria.