Chaim Swinik

Swinik was born to parents David and Miriam on 6 July 1936 in Minsk, Poland.

Swinik was a member of a group of Holocaust survivors known as the Boys, despite the fact the group consisted of over 200 girls. 

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

Members of the Boys were held in Nazi labour and concentration camps and used as slave labourers. They had also survived World War II in hiding or as lone children.

Photograph of Chaim Swinik in Kloster Indersdorf, Germany in 1945.

Chaim Swinik in Kloster Indersdorf, Germany in 1945.

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Name:
Chaim Swinik
Also known as:
Chaim Rechter
Current Name:
Minsk, Belarus
Lone Child:
unknown
Hidden Child:
unknown
Liberation:
Unknown
Displaced Person Camp:
Kloster Indersdorf
Repatriation:
no
Return Home:
unknown
Arrival in UK:
October 1945
Group:
Point of Arrival:
Southampton, UK
Left UK:
1949
Destination:
Israel
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