Daniel Ellsberg, Glenda Jackson, Melanie Phillips, Sir Ben Helfgott
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The Holocaust and the Boys
On the 9th of May 1945, in the early morning, he was liberated by the Russians. After the war, the Jewish community in Great Britain through an organization called World Jewish Relief persuaded the government to give a thousand visas to orphan refugees survivors of the camps. They were flown on RAF bombers, first lots of 300 including my dad to Windenir. So they were known as the boys, even though there were girls, because the boys were in the vast majority. And they were like brothers and sisters. When I got married, my in-laws were surprised that we had 450 guests at the wedding, because they were all, but the boys were the family.
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