On 8 May1945, the Allies formally accepted Germany’s unconditional surrender, ending World War Two in Europe. The Holocaust is usually considered to have ended on this date although it did not mark the end of suffering of the thousands of Holocaust survivors. The Holocaust continued to harvest the lives for many years.
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| The meeting arranged by Swedish Holocaust Memorial Association (SHMA) on October 6, 2019. Secretary General Victoria Martinez is unveiling AUSCHWITZ memorial stone, one of the 6 stones representing 6 death camps and 6 000 000 Jews murdered during the Holocaust. One of the victims buried at the Jewish Cemetery was Eva Furst that passed both Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen concentration camp according the her Swedish medical card. Thanks to UNRRA action, Eva Furst left Germany last June 1945 and arrived to Stockholm on July 1st. She was taken directly from the White boat - Kastelholmen to the Epidemic Hospital in Stockholm. She died in Stockholm 19 yers old. |
Holocaust Continues to Claim Lives in Sweden: there are hundreds of Holocaust victims buried in Sweden. Most of them come with White boat that transported, with start of late June 1945, approx. 9 300 former concentration camp prisoners to Sweden. Some of them died during the transport to different Swedish Harbours. The main part of them in Swedish hospitals during 1945-1946.
