Category:Buchenwald (subject)

Buchenwald

When the Allies liberate Buchenwald, they found 903 children. They were mostly adolescents; only around 30 of them were under 12.

Over four hundred of them were sent to an orphanage in Écouis, France where they were educated and cared for; see OSE Orphanage.

Literature

1991

The Boys: Triumph over Adversity (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1991) is a book by Martin Gilbert.

"The story of 732 young concentration camp survivors ... In August 1945, Britain offered to take in 1,000 young survivors [of the Holocaust]. Only 732 could be found. Flown to England, they first settled in the Lake District. They formed a tightly knit group of friends whose terrible shared experience is almost beyond imagining. This is their story, which begins in the lost communities of pre-World War II central Europe, moves through ghetto, concentration camp and death march, to liberation, survival, and finally, fifty years later, a deeply moving reunion ... After sharing their annual reunions for twenty years with historian Martin Gilbert, the men and women of "The Boys" asked him to share their recollections and experiences ... The Boys bears witness to the human spirit, enduring the depths, and bearing hopefully the burden and challenge of survival."--Publisher description.

Martin Gilbert (1936-2015) was a British historian and honorary Fellow of Merton College, University of Oxford. He was the author of eighty-eight books, including works on Winston Churchill, the 20th century, and Jewish history including the Holocaust.