Meir Stern - '45 Aid Society

Stern was born on 30 April 1929 in Svalyava, Czechoslovakia, before moving to nearby Mukačevo, in the Carpathian Mountains, where he grew up.

Stern 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 Meir and Marion Stern — ^{Meir and Marion Stern.}

Name:

Meir Stern

Birthplace:

Svalyava, Czechoslovakia

Hungarian Name 1938 - 1945:

Munkacs

Current Name:

Mukachevo, Ukraine

Ghetto:

Munkács Ghetto

Lone Child:

Hidden Child:

Deportation destination:

Auschwitz

Camps:

Auschwitz
Neu-Dachs-Jaworzno

Liberation:

Escaped Auschwitz in January 1945

Repatriation:

Return Home:

Arrival in UK:

June 1946

Group:

The fourth group

Point of Arrival:

Newhaven, UK

Hostels:

The Jews’ Temporary Shelter
Ashford Sanatorium
Quare Mead

Left UK:

1967

Destination:

Israel

Lived in:

Settled in:

Israel

Main Quilt:

Gallery:

Photograph of the Stern family before World War II.