Luisa Buki - '45 Aid Society

Luisa Buki was born Luisa Zisovic on 12 March 1931 in Volove in Czechoslovakia, now in Ukraine.

Buki 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 Fourth Group of the Boys in the London Metropolitan Archives.

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Name:

Luisa Buki

Also known as:

Luisa Zisovic

Birthplace:

Subcarpathian Rus

Hungarian Name 1938 - 1945:

Okormezo

Current Name:

Mizshirja, Ukraine

Ghetto:

Huszt Ghetto

Lone Child:

Hidden Child:

Deportation destination:

Auschwitz

Camps:

Auschwitz
Bromberg-Ost

Death March/Train:

Bromberg-Ost to Sachsenhausen-Oranienberg

Liberation:

On death march

Repatriation:

Return Home:

Arrival in UK:

June 1946

Group:

The fourth group

Point of Arrival:

Newhaven, UK

Hostels:

The Jews’ Temporary Shelter

Left UK:

1949

Destination:

USA

Settled in:

USA

Testament:

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

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