Sunday, July 3, 2022

Swedish Holocaust Memorial Association - SHMA was represented at the meeting with the Israeli minister Benny Gantz.

Benny Gantz's mother, Margit Weisz was brought from Bergen-Belsen to Sweden by the UNRRA White Boat mission in July 1945. She arrived in Sweden on M/S Karskär on July 8th, 1945. Above is her DP-2 card issued at the Swedish Transit Hospital in Lübeck on July 5th, 1945.




Swedish Holocaust Memorial Association - SHMA was represented at the meeting with the Israeli minister Benny Gantz.
Benny Gantz's mother was brought from Bergen-Belsen to Sweden by UNRRA White Boat mission in July 1945. She left Trelleborg (Sweden) for Eretz Israel on January 24, 1947, on the ship S/S Ulua.
The chairman of SHMA, Roman Wroblewski did extensive research about Benny Gantz's mother. Most of the materials were collected at the Swedish National Archives, Marieberg.


Swedish Holocaust Memorial Association - SHMA was represented at the meeting with the Israeli minister Benny Gantz.
Benny Gantz's mother was brought from Bergen-Belsen to Sweden by UNRRA White Boat mission in July 1945. She left Trelleborg (Sweden) for Eretz Israel on January 24, 1947, on the ship S/S Ulua.
The chairman of SHMA, Roman Wroblewski did extensive research about Benny Gantz's mother. Most of the materials were collected at the Swedish National Archives, Marieberg. The lower picture shows one of the documents.

One of the documents was her fake Cuban visa. All of the Mapilim traveling from Sweden had the same visa when they left Sweden.