Sidney Finkel - '45 Aid Society

Finkel was born Sevek Finkelstein in Łódź in central Poland in 1931.

Finkel 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.

^{Sidney Finkel passing Gad Josef to his older brother as they arrive in Windermere in August 1945.}

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Name:

Sidney Finkel

Also known as:

Sevek Finkelstein

Birthplace:

Łódź, Poland

Yiddish Name:

Lodzh

Ghetto:

Piotrków Ghetto

Lone Child:

Hidden Child:

Deportation destination:

Częstochowa-HASAG

Camps:

Częstochowa-HASAG
Buchenwald

Death March/Train:

Buchenwald to Theresienstadt

Liberation:

Theresienstadt Ghetto

Displaced Person Camp:

Terezín
Belgická Orphanage

Repatriation:

Return Home:

Arrival in UK:

August 1945

Group:

The first group

Point of Arrival:

Crosby-on-Eden, UK

Hostels:

Windermere
Ascot
Bunce Court School

Left UK:

1951

Destination:

USA

Settled in:

USA

Publication:

Sidney Finkel, Sevek and the Holocaust: The Boy who Refused to Die (2006)

Testament:

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum