David Zweig

Zweig was born in 1929 in Rachov in the Carpathian mountains, which were then the most easterly part of Czechoslovakia.

Zweig 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 the List of the Boys in the Third Group of the Boys, 1946.

List of the Boys in the Third Group of the Boys, 1946.

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Name:
David Zweig
Also known as:
David Stein
Yiddish Name:
Rachev
Hungarian Name 1938 - 1945:
Rahö
Current Name:
Rachiv, Ukraine
Lone Child:
no
Hidden Child:
no
Deportation destination:
Auschwitz
Liberation:
Ebensee, Austria
Repatriation:
no
Return Home:
yes
Arrival in UK:
March 1946
Group:
Point of Arrival:
Prestwick, Scotland
Left UK:
1948
Testament:
US Shoah Foundation
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