Simon Zaks

Zaks was born on 15 July 1932 in Będzin a city in southern Poland in the Silesian Highlands.

Zaks 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.

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Name:
Simon Zaks
Birthplace:
Będzin, Poland
Lone Child:
no
Hidden Child:
no
Deportation destination:
Auschwitz
Liberation:
Theresienstadt Ghetto
Displaced Person Camp:
Terezín
Belgická Orphanage
Repatriation:
no
Return Home:
unknown
Arrival in UK:
August 1945
Group:
Point of Arrival:
Crosby-on-Eden, UK
Left UK:
1948
Testament:
US Shoah Foundation
Contact:
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