Edita Schwimmer - '45 Aid Society

Schwimmer was born in 1930 in Užhorod in the Carpathian Mountains, which was then the most easterly part of Czechoslovakia. It is now Uzhhorod in Ukraine.

Schwimmer 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.

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Name:

Edita Schwimmer

Also known as:

Edith

Birthplace:

Užhorod, Czechoslovakia

Yiddish Name:

Ungwir

Hungarian Name 1938 - 1945:

Ungvár

Current Name:

Uzhhorod, Ukraine

Lone Child:

Hidden Child:

Deportation destination:

Auschwitz

Camps:

Auschwitz
Ravensbrück
Lippstadt

Death March/Train:

Lippstadt to Unknown Destination

Liberation:

On death march

Displaced Person Camp:

Föhrenwald-Wolfratshausen DP Camp

Repatriation:

unknown

Return Home:

unknown

Arrival in UK:

March 1946

Group:

The third group

Point of Arrival:

Northolt. London, Uk

Hostels:

Montford Hall
Cazenove Road

Left UK:

December 1949

Destination:

USA

Testament:

None

Gallery:

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