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 Fallersleben subcamp of the Neuengamme concentration camp.
As the camps were dissoled 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.
On 7 April 1945, some 1,600 remaining female inmates of the Fallersleben- Volkswagenwerke camp were evacuated by train to Salzwedel, another subcamp of Neuengamme.
For those who had endured the evacuation of Auschwitz, as had the members of the Boys, the nightmare began again.
They were liberated by U.S. Army troops a week later.
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