What internal motives of the Jewish Congregation in Stockholm could be more important than the memory of Six Million Holocaust Victims? - Reflections - YomHashoah.

Holocaust Monument in Stockholm "6 stones - 6 million" with the names of the 6 death camps was unveiled in October 2019. 

Will Jewish Congregation move demolished 2020 Holocaust monument from the North Cemetry to the city?

"6 stones - 6 million" monument with the names of the 6 death camps was unveiled in October 2019. Here is the female rabbi from the Jewish congregation that took part in the ceremony.

"6 stones - 6 million" monument with the names of the 6 death camps was unveiled in October 2019.

Holocaust victim's graves. Survivors were brought to Sweden during the White boat mission and died shortly after their arrival. Spreading the Soil brought from Eretz Israel.

What internal motives of the Jewish Congregation could be more important than the memory of Six Million Holocaust Victims? Drawing by baMba.

Is the Holocaust Monument "6 stones - 6 million" erected at the Northern Jewish Cemetry in Stockholm going to be placed in the middle of the street in front of the Great Synagogue?

Just after the commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, the Jewish Congregation in Stockholm (headed by Aron Verständig Szugalski and Isak Reichel) removed the monument "6 stones - 6 million".

It happened exactly on the 75 anniversary of the first arrival of UNRRA White Boats to Stockholm with the Holocaust survivors from Bergen-Belsen. Many of them died upon arrival and were buried at Northern Cemetry. Their gravestones together with "6 stones - 6 million" stones with the names of the 6 death camps were actually the entire monument. So Auschwitz stone, Treblinka stone, Chelmno stone, etc. were removed and hidden by the Jewish Congregation. The Death camp granite stones (200 kg each) were placed on specially prepared concrete constructions looking exactly the same way as these on the photo in front of the Great Synagogue.

What internal motives of the Jewish Congregation could be more important than the memory of Six Million Holocaust Victims?

Most of the Holocaust Survivors left Sweden after their rehabilitation for Israel. The biggest group left, the so-called Maapilim, approximately 650 people left for Eretz Israel in January 1947 on the ship S/S Ulua from Trelleborg.

Today Yom HaShoah - Holocaust Remembrance Day

If You Can’t Heal the Wounds, Soothe the Pain!

Julius will write the foreword to my book about Kinderheim children. Thereafter, in a preface, I will explain why I choose him, a child born in Piotrków Ghetto.

Julius

Why did I choose Julius to write the foreword to my book about Kinderhein children that were liberated from the Bergen-Belsen camp in April 1945?

At the end of July 1945, Julius came alone from the concentration camp Bergen-Belsen to Sweden on UNRRAs White Boat S/S Kastelholm. He was 2 1/2 when he arrived in December 1944, in a boxcar (cattle wagon) at the Buchenwald concentration camp from the Piotrków ghetto. From Buchenwald, he was thereafter transferred to Bergen-Belsen. He was born as an inmate of Piotrków Trybunalski Ghetto.

Normally a foreword is just a short piece of writing placed at the beginning of a book written by someone other than the primary author of the work. I wanted that Julius starts his foreword with a description of our first email contacts followed by our first, recent meeting, Spring 2022, in Stockholm. The description of this interaction between the writer of the foreword and the book's primary author or the story of the book is an important part of my book for several reasons. Although Julius belongs to the Kinderheim children he was and is still making research about his past. This is due to so-called childhood amnesia. Some define it as the age from which a first memory can be retrieved. This is usually at the age of three or four, but it can range from two to seven years for a few. Julius will write about his first memories that are actually from Finland. Investigating the past of Julius and of other children from Piotrków Trybunalski is also what I am doing even if I am not a Holocaust survivor, not even born in his home city Piotrków Trybunalski. Although Julius was an inmate of the ghetto and thereafter in two concentration camps he remembers, due to his age, nothing from that time. He had actually to do the same type of research as I am doing, to find out the fate of his parents and also what happened to himself.

I want that Julius's foreword to be extended and cover part of his story. The story like the rest of the book will be based on the Polish, German, British and Swedish documents. It will actually cover the story of how the book came into being, or how the idea for the book was developed.

Most of the children that arrived in Sweden "from the camps" in 1945 landed in Eretz Israel.

Children from the Kinderheim are watching "the funeral procedure" of thousands of bodies in one of the numerous mass graves close to their hut in Bergen-Belsen.

Vita Båtar - Registreringslistor från Lübeck och båtlistor kan vara behjälpliga vid identifieringen av de överlevande - Edzia, Hania, Cyla, Bluma Mania, Rachela - Om tillfälliga släktskap.

Baggå lägret 1945.

Baggå lägret 1945 - information finns i Riksarkivet.

Jag får nästan dagligen nya foton av Förintelsens Överlevande från tidsperioden 1945-1947. De flesta bilder är från olika platser i Sverige och föreställer huvudsakligen Förintelsens överlevande som kom till Sverige med UNRRAs Vita båtar under juni-juli 1945.

De överlevande bytte fotografier med varandra redan i Sverige. Därefter fortsatte kontakterna när de spreds över hela världen till de platser där det fanns deras, oftast avlägsen, släkt: Erec Israel, Sydamerika och USA. Få ville stanna i Sverige och Europa.

Nyss kom det flera bilder från sonen av Bluma Tatarkowska från Israel. Texter var på polska. Foton var bara undertecknade med förnamn. Ett foto till Bluma var från Hanka. Efternamnet ökänt. I M/S Rönnskär båtlistan som publiceras nedan finns en Brandys Hanka med ett L-nummer 4573. Tatarkowska Bluma, mottagaren av fotot hade ett följande L-nummer 4574.

M/S Rönnskär båtlista innehåller bl.a. Gelbart Cyla L:4572, Brandys Hanka L:4573, Tatarkowska Bluma L:4574, Steinberg Genia L:4575. Det speciella är att Steinberg Genia L:4575 har uppgivit att Tatarkowska Bluma L:4574 var hennes kusin. Detta tillfälliga släktskap användes ofta av de överlevande för att fortsätta resan tillsammans.

Andra namn som Edzia som reste med första Amerikabåten till USA få man söka på annat håll kanske i Baggålägrets listor.

Ett foto till Tatarkowska Bluma från Hanka. I M/S Rönnskär båtlista som publiceras nedan finns en Brandys Hanka med ett L-nummer 4573. Tatarkowska Bluma, mottagaren av fotot hade ett följande L-nummer 4574.

Vita Båtar M/S Rönnskär båtlistan med Tatarkowska Bluma, Steinberg Genia, Brandys och Hanka Gelbart Cyla.

Det hela började med ett brev:

Dear Roman,
Reading your book, "The Liberated 1945 - White Boat Mission from Bergen-Belsen to Sweden", I found on page 66 (attached) a picture that all my family approved that it is probably my mother Bluma Tatarkovsky (Bluma Tatarkowska).
I attached another picture of her taken in Sweden.
Following my previous letter sent earlier today, please let me know if something is not clear.
BR – Yoel Tsipper

"Pielgrzymki" do Domu Sierot i Naszego Domu.

Janusz Korczak (Henryk Goldszmit) w otoczeniu słuchaczy Państwowego Instytutu Pedagogiki Specjalnej - PIPS. 1930 rok.

Były róznego rodzaju "pielgrzymki" do Domu Sierot i Naszego Domu. Dobroczyńcy z rodzinami, członkowie stowarzyszeń dzięki którym powstały te ośrodki i studenci. Wiadomo ze studenci Państwowy Instytutu Pedagogiki Specjalnej (PIPS) odwiedzali Nasz Dom wielokrotnie. To była częśc wspaniałej współpracy Janusza Korczaka i Marii Grzegorzewskiej.

Państwowy Instytut Pedagogiki Specjalnej (PIPS) powstał w 1922 roku decyzją Ministerstwa Wyznań Religijnych i Oświecenia Publicznego z połączenia Państwowego Instytutu Fonetycznego i Państwowego Seminarium Pedagogiki Specjalnej. Dyrektorem Instytutu została Maria Grzegorzewska. Była na tym stanowisku do śmierci w 1967 roku!

Janusz Korczak rozpoczął współpracę z Państwowym Instytutem Pedagogiki Specjalnej od chwili powstania.  Do legendy przeszedł Korczaka wykład inauguracyjny na Państwowym Instytucie Pedagogiki Specjalnej. Janusz Korczak przyszedł z chłopcem z Domu Sierot, ustawił go przed aparatem rentgenowskim i włączył urządzenie. Chłopiec przeraził się. Na ekranie widoczne było jego serce dygocące ze strach. Doktor powiedział do obecnych: Zapamiętajcie na zawsze ten widok. Tak wygląda serce dziecka, kiedy się boi.

PIPS 1925/26. W drugim rzędzie od lewej strony siedzą A. Manczarski, J.Skalska-Raczyńska, T. Benni, M Wawrzynowski, T Stefanowiczowa, M. Grzegorzewska, W. Weychert-Szamanowska, J. Korczak, T. Jaroczyński, W. Jarecki, W. Sterling, J. Segał.

Były róznego rodzaju "pielgrzymki" do Domu Sierot i Naszego Domu. Dobroczyńcy z rodzinami, członkowie stowarzyszeń dzięki którym powstały te ośrodki i studenci. Na zdjęciu Pan Misza, bursista i wychowawca wraz z dziecmi. Po prawej kobieta z córka które wyraznie sa z poza Domu Sierot i koniecznie chca byc na zdjeciu.