Short story about two sisters Gross from Kinderheim in Barrack 211 in Bergen-Belsen

 

Hertha Gross, a deaf girl from Barrack 211 in Bergen-Belsen

DP-2 cards of Gross sisters

Hertha, a deaf girl from Barrack 211 in Bergen-Belsen came on July 26 1945 by UNRRA White Boat S/S Kastelholm to Malmö in Sweden. 

When the war started, the parents of two girls Hertha and Renee Gross paid a (gentile) couple to hide their daughters and to protect them. When the parents were deported and couldn't pay the couple, the girls were released. Thereafter they were caught and learned that their parents had been deported to Auschwitz. Hertha and Renee were sent to Bergen-Belsen and Kinderheim there.

In Sweden Hertha attended Manila school at Djurgården in Stockholm, a school for the deaf while her hearing sister Renée went to school in Helsingborg. After two long years their American relatives were able to get them to the United States in 1948.