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| The Swedish Police report concerning Rysia Rywka Szwarc.* |
When looking through the archives, I am always afraid to see the cross sign + on the Medical. and or other registration cards belonging to the Holocaust survivors who came to Sweden at the end of WWII. In some cases, however, the sign was just to show that the patients, former inmates of the concentration camps, belonged to the "Red Cross group".
Above are two entry cards for a mother and daughter who were brought to Sweden by UNRRA's White Boats. Kinderheim children were first transported on an ambulance train from the Bergen-Belsen Hospital to the Swedish Transit Hospital in Lübeck. After two days, on July 25, 1945, they left Lübeck port and arrived in Malmö, Sweden, the next day.
When the White Boat S/S Kastelholm arrived in Malmö after one night at sea, all the passengers had to be registered, disinfected, and checked for lice. All these procedures were done on the day of arrival, July 26, 1945. The sick children were transferred to Nya Lungkliniken i Malmö. Thereafter, 20 older girls and the mothers with small children were sent together with Hermina, Bonsel, and Ms. Fernandes to Sundsgården close to Helsingborg. Luba and the older girls were transferred to Bjärred (north of Malmö and the older boys from the group were housed in Gåsebäck, also close to Helsingborg. The children who were hospitalized at Nya Lungkliniken were thereafter moved to Welanderhemmet and sister May.
Many of the children in the Kinderheim who came to Sweden were from the city of Piotrków Trybunalski and were deported from the Piotrków Ghetto on December 4th, 1944.
There were actually two types of children in the Kinderheim in Barrack 211: fully parentless and children with mothers. Most of the parentless children left for Eretz Israel already during the summer of 1946, and the last big group of 650 children and youngsters left on January 24th, 1947.
Above are two entry cards for a mother and daughter who were brought to Sweden by UNRRA's White Boats. Kinderheim children were first transported on an ambulance train from the Bergen-Belsen Hospital to the Swedish Transit Hospital in Lübeck. After two days, on July 25, 1945, they left Lübeck port and arrived in Malmö, Sweden, the next day.
When the White Boat S/S Kastelholm arrived in Malmö after one night at sea, all the passengers had to be registered, disinfected, and checked for lice. All these procedures were done on the day of arrival, July 26, 1945. The sick children were transferred to Nya Lungkliniken i Malmö. Thereafter, 20 older girls and the mothers with small children were sent together with Hermina, Bonsel, and Ms. Fernandes to Sundsgården close to Helsingborg. Luba and the older girls were transferred to Bjärred (north of Malmö and the older boys from the group were housed in Gåsebäck, also close to Helsingborg. The children who were hospitalized at Nya Lungkliniken were thereafter moved to Welanderhemmet and sister May.
Many of the children in the Kinderheim who came to Sweden were from the city of Piotrków Trybunalski and were deported from the Piotrków Ghetto on December 4th, 1944.
There were actually two types of children in the Kinderheim in Barrack 211: fully parentless and children with mothers. Most of the parentless children left for Eretz Israel already during the summer of 1946, and the last big group of 650 children and youngsters left on January 24th, 1947.
Numerous Holocaust survivors left Sweden on M/S Drottningholm, headed to New York as a final destination.
* Translation from the Swedish Police report concerning Rysia Rywka Szwarc.
ESKILSTUNA POLICE
CRIMINAL DIVISION
CRIMINAL DIVISION
REPORT
Monday, June 7, 1948.
Monday, June 7, 1948.
Re: Residence permit.
Following the submission of an application for a residence permit to the State Aliens Commission by Polish citizen Rysia-Mariem Szwaro, she was interviewed at the local aliens department on June 4, 1948, and stated the following regarding the matter:
She was born on January 26, 1932, in Piotrków Trybunalski, Poland, the legitimate daughter of metalworker Szyja Szwaro and his wife Rucha, née Bendermacher, both of whom currently reside at Rademachergatan 20, Eskilstuna. She is unmarried, unemployed, and is registered and living at Rademachergatan 18 in Eskilstuna.
She was raised and lived in the parental home in Piotrków, Poland, until the age of eight, during which time she completed one year of primary school in Piotrków. In 1939, during the hostilities between Germany and Poland, German troops marched into Poland and occupied it. Consequently, along with her parents and due to their Jewish descent, she was placed by German troops in an internment camp in Piotrków, Poland. She remained in this internment camp until 1944, when she and her mother were taken to a similar internment camp in Ravensbrück, Germany, while her father was taken to a similar camp in Bergen-Belsen, Germany, where they were imprisoned until the end of World War II in the spring of 1945. Upon liberation, she accompanied her mother to Sweden, arriving on July 26, 1945, while her father arrived in the kingdom in 1946. Since November 20, 1947, she has been living at Rademachergatan 20 in Eskilstuna. Because she had only completed one year of primary school in Poland, she attended the 6th grade at Fristadsskolan primary school in 1947, but left after only a few months, as she could not sufficiently benefit from the instruction due to language difficulties. During her stay in Sweden, she has not held any employment, as during her time in the internment camps in Poland and Germany, she contracted tuberculosis as a result of malnutrition, from which she is now fully recovered.
She has not been punished or prosecuted for any crime or offense. Nor has she been affiliated with any political party or engaged in political matters. She has not been subject to expulsion or deportation from any country.
The case did not appear in the publication "Utlänningsmeddelande" (Aliens Notification) nor in the registers kept here of persons punished for crimes and offenses, and nothing unfavorable is known about her at this local aliens department.
Eskilstuna as above./
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