Jacob Hecht - '45 Aid Society

Hecht was born on 14 May 1929 in in Romania.

Hecht 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 Jakob Hecht in Kloster Indersdorf, Germany in 1945.

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Name:

Jacob Hecht

Birthplace:

Maramureş, Romania

Ghetto:

Vișeu de Sus Ghetto

Lone Child:

Hidden Child:

Deportation destination:

Auschwitz

Camps:

Auschwitz
Riese
Flossenbürg

Death March/Train:

Riese to Gross Rosen
Flossenbürg to Dachau

Liberation:

On death march

Displaced Person Camp:

Kloster Indersdorf

Repatriation:

Return Home:

Arrival in UK:

October 1945

Group:

The second group

Point of Arrival:

Southampton, UK

Hostels:

Wintershill Hall
Manor House
ORT School

Settled in:

Israel

Main Quilt:

Quilt Square:

Gallery:

Photograph of Jacob Hecht ID from Kloster Indersdorf