The Boys: The true story of children who survived the concentration camps

The Boys' Story is a book about the Holocaust child survivors who arrived in Britain in 1945. It tells their stories of survival, resilience, and reunion, and is a testament to the human spirit's strength in the face of great evil.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 544 pages
Publication date: 04 August 2022
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co

Imaginable to put down ... This is a book about coming out of hell, about great evil, about the triumph of the human spirit, and about the great goodness on the part of those who helped.

One is left with hope and admiration after reading Julia Neuberger's THE TIMES. A story of human resilience, fortitude, and victory that restores the reader's hope for humanity.

The SUNDAY TIMES describes it as a story of human beings sucked into a vortex of destruction, in which family, identity, religion, and culture were all ripped away. A sense of near-miraculous calm descends when the Boys finally arrive in Britain, when human fortitude finally prevails over absolute evil.

David Cesarani, writing in TLS, praises the book for its depiction of human resilience and triumph in the face of unimaginable adversity. In August 1945, the first of 732 child survivors of the Holocaust reached Britain. Initially 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.

Martin Gilbert has brought together the recollections of this remarkable group of survivors to tell their astonishing stories. The book is a testament to the human spirit's enduring power and the resilience of the human mind in the face of unimaginable tragedy. It is a must-read for anyone who seeks to understand the darkest chapters of human history and the remarkable stories of those who survived them.

Weight: 400g
Dimension: 131 x 197 x 33 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781474626392