Sam Gontarz

Gontarz was born in the Polish industrial city of Łódź on 6 July 1929.

Gontarz 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 Sam Gontarz

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Name:
Sam* Gontarz
Birthplace:
Łódź, Poland
Yiddish Name:
Lodzh
Lone Child:
no
Hidden Child:
no
Deportation destination:
Auschwitz
Liberation:
Mauthausen, Austria
Displaced Person Camp:
Feldafing DP Camp
Repatriation:
no
Return Home:
no
Arrival in UK:
1947
Settled in:
UK
Main Quilt:
Quilt Square:
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