Explore the Squares – '45 Aid Society

Bluma and Berek Wurzel Our

Our mother Bluma Wurzel Urbas was born on May 2, 1926 in Radomsko, Poland. Her father was a ...

The story continues | Second Generation

The Second Generation are the children and grand-children of The Boys. Our parents have deputed to us the ...

Henry Abisch

My husband, Henry Abisch, was born on 25th December 1928 in Rachov, Carpathia, Czechoslovakia. He was taken with ...

Jack Aizenberg

Our father, grandfather and our hero, Jack Yankel Aizenberg, was born on 15th April 1928, in a small ...

Icek Alterman

Icek was born in Ozarow, Poland, in 1928, the middle of three children. When he was a small ...

Sidney Baker

Sidney Baker was born Shaul Bekierman on 20th October 1927 in Chmielnik, Poland. The son of Yekesil, a ...

Harry Balsam

Harry was born in 1929 in Gorlice, Poland. He was separated from his mother, sister and little brother ...

Michael Bandel

This square was made for my husband, Michael Bandel (Yechiel Mechel Tvi). He is shown together with his ...

Bulldogs Bank

This photo was taken in Bulldogs Bank in 1946. These six children were some of the youngest survivors ...

Mendel Beale

My grandpa, Mendel Beale, was born in December 1921 in a small village outside of Lodz, Poland. He ...

Roman Becher

Roman was born in Lwow, Eastern Poland on 23 November 1929. Only his mother Sabina, aunts Lucy and ...

Salek and Sarolta Benedikt

My idea for a quilt square was to have a fan of coloured pencils with a picture of ...

Felix Berger

My father Yechiel Ophriam Fishel Berger (known later as Felix) was born on 10th October 1927 in Wloszczowa, ...

Wlodka Blit Robertson

Our mother Wlodka Blit Robertson was in the Warsaw ghetto until 1943, just before the ghetto uprising, living ...

Mayer Bomsztyk

Mayer Bomsztyk was born on 28th December 1928 in Staszow, Poland. He was the youngest of 3 children ...

Zvi Brand

My father Zvi Brand was born in Ulutz, Poland, on 5th of August 1929. He was taken to ...

Peter Isaac Brandstein

Isaac was originally Hungarian. He was born in the Carpathian Mountains and passed away in London. During the ...

Esther and Stan Brunstein

The starting point for me was the map of Poland, the country of birth for both my parents ...

Adash Bulwa

My father, Adash Bulwa, was born on 15th September 1926 in Poland in Piotrków-Trybunalski. In 1941 he was ...

Joseph Carver

The family chose Martin Gilbert’s book cover entitled ‘The Boys Triumph Over Adversity’ because Joseph himself, aged seventeen, ...

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