Dezider Kahan

Kahan was born in Lysyčovo, Czechoslovakia.

Kahan 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 Dezider Kahan in Kloster Indersdorf, Germany in 1945.

Dezider Kahan in Kloster Indersdorf, Germany in 1945.

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Name:
Dezider Kahan
Also known as:
Jack Kahan
Lone Child:
no
Hidden Child:
no
Deportation destination:
Auschwitz
Liberation:
Buchenwald
Displaced Person Camp:
Kloster Indersdorf
Repatriation:
no
Return Home:
unknown
Arrival in UK:
October 1945
Group:
Point of Arrival:
Southampton, UK
Military Service:
Machal Volunteer
Left UK:
1948
Destination:
Israel
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