Kurzbach to Bergen-Belsen

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 Hirschberg subcamp of the Gross Rosen concentration camp.

As the camps were evacuated 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.

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The forced labour camp was located in the village of Bukołowo near Breslau, in Germany, now Wrocław, Poland.

The subcamp’s evacuation began in late January 1945, when 200 to 500 women were escorted out. Those who were unfit to march were killed.

The camp’s prisoners were evacuated to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. The number of women who completed the journey and reached its destination has not been determined.