Tuesday, August 17, 2021

Most of the children that survived the Holocaust and were brought to Sweden after WWII were girls.





Mirka and Teodor "reunited" with other children from Piotrków in a Jewish schoolhouse in Lövsätra, a place very close to Stockholm.


During 1946-1947 three big groups of children and youngsters left Sweden to legally and illegally enter Eretz Israel (Mandated Palestine).


Most of the children from the little town south of Lodz, Piotrków Trybunalski that were deported in 1944 were girls. Most of the children that survived and were brought to Sweden after WWII were girls. During 1946-1947 three big groups of children and youngsters left Sweden to legally and illegally enter Eretz Israel (The Mandate of Palestine). 

In the group of children born 1932 or later there were 30 girls and only 10 boys, among the boys Zajdman Teodor that was born in 1937.

Zajdman Teodor was in Bergen-Belsen with his mother Ita, She died few days after the liberation. Ita´s sister and her daughter Miriam-Mirka Stern also survived and were brought to Gothenburg, Sweden on UNRRAs White Boat M/S Kronprinsessan Ingrid.

Mirka and Teodor "reunited" with other children from Piotrków in a Jewish schoolhouse in Lövsätra, a place very close to Stockholm. Teodor's father survived the Holocaust and they were living in France.

Source: Swedish Holocaust Memory Association Archives and own research by Roman Wasserman Wroblewski.