FOOC: Prague photo

this morning (saturday 10th), 11.54-11.59am, on bbc radio 4 

from our own correspondent (presented by kate adie) concludes with …

“A group of child orphans who survived the Nazi concentration camps and were resettled in Britain became known as The Boys, even though there were girls among them. They formed new communities in the UK and thrived. Hannah Gelbart, the grand daughter of one of them, reports on a special reunion in Prague.”

Focus: Czech survivors

sunday 30th june, 7.45-8.00pm, on bbc news tv 

the families who weren’t meant to live (presented by hannah gelbart, granddaughter of a survivor) (in the focus series)

“A group of Holocaust survivors and their families gather in Prague’s Old Town Square to recreate a photo that was taken in 1945, when the survivors had just been liberated from Nazi concentration camps.

The survivors were part of a group of children flown to the UK to start new lives after World War Two. Unlike the Kindertransport – which rescued thousands of children in the early years of the war – this group had been through the concentration camps and survived against all odds.”

including contributions from …

• ike (icek) alterman

• sam laskier

• daughter shelley laskier

• arek hersh

• daughter michelle tamam

• granddaughter liora tamam

(for more interviews, see ldhp.org.uk/?page_id=507)