Salek Benedikt - '45 Aid Society

Benedikt was born in the industrial town of Łódź, Poland on 17 October 1925.

Benedikt 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 Salek Benedikt in Kloster Indersdorf, Germany in 1945.

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Name:

Salek Benedikt

Also known as:

Israel
Benny

Birthplace:

Łódź, Poland

Yiddish Name:

Lodzh

Ghetto:

Litzmannstadt Ghetto

Lone Child:

Hidden Child:

Deportation destination:

Starachowice

Camps:

Auschwitz
Oranienburg-Heinkelwerke
Flossenbürg

Death March/Train:

Auschwitz III-Monowitz to Gleiwitz
Flossenbürg to Dachau

Liberation:

On death march

Displaced Person Camp:

Kloster Indersdorf

Repatriation:

Return Home:

unknown

Arrival in UK:

October 1945

Group:

The second group

Point of Arrival:

Southampton, UK

Hostels:

Wintershill Hall

Settled in:

Testament:

Imperial War Museum

Main Quilt:

Quilt Square:

Gallery:

List of children sent to England in October 1945.