Caretaker of the Holocaust History in Sweden - Roman Wasserman Wroblewski - Sigtuna Emergency Hospital Revisited.

The summer of 1945 was a strange summer. Never has the sun shone so often and so hot. The roses have never bloomed so brightly and smelled so sweetly in Rosengården. The fountain ripples, and the swallows fly as fast as arrows. In the arcades, there is a bed next to a bed. The eight months we lived inside the barbed wire with our refugees gave us more than they had to receive.

Caretaker of the Holocaust History in Sweden - Roman Wasserman Wroblewski - Sigtuna Emergency Hospital Revisited.

When the first stretchers with emaciated human remains were carried up the stairs from the white buses to the cafeteria, school halls, and all sorts of spaces, the crying felt like a lump in the throat. After all, they were children, as if nothing had been done, young people belonging to a despised race. What was the point of putting them in concentration camps? Slender white hands lay on the blankets, big black eyes looked at us questioningly, mouths that had stopped smiling faces marked by tuberculosis, emaciated and starved. It was women who came to us, the sickest.

This image of the girls from Bergen-Belsen standing behind a barbed wire in Sigtuna eluded me for a long time. It was about the place where the photo was taken. 

Sigtuna. The image of the girls from Bergen-Belsen standing behind a barbed wire in Sigtuna eluded me for a long time. It was about the place where the photo was taken. I had actually, two options to choose from. The stairs on the way to the student residence Berga or Backa within the area of ​​the Sigtuna Läroverket or a similar staircase within the Sigtuna Foundation's area. Stairs and buildings were designed by the same architect and were in several places within the area. I knew the stairs in the educational institution well when my daughter lived there for two years. The area within the Sigtuna Foundation was quite unfamiliar to me. On the way to a meeting at the Sigtuna Foundation, I suddenly saw my stairs. Although it was empty, it was suddenly filled with young women from Bergen-Belsen. They stood behind a barbed wire fence that was drawn between the Sigtuna Foundation's Library and the rest of the area on the hill where the emergency hospital has been located. Suddenly I was transferred to the summer of 1945.

The housewife of Sigtuna Stiftelsen Ellen Sundberg describes the day when the survivors from the Bergen-Belsen arrived in Sigtuna:

"When the first stretchers with emaciated human remains were carried up the stairs from the white buses to the cafeteria, school halls, and all sorts of spaces, the crying felt like a lump in the throat. After all, they were children, as if nothing had been done, young people belonging to a despised race. What was the point of putting them in concentration camps? Slender white hands lay on the blankets, big black eyes looked at us questioningly, mouths that had stopped smiling faces marked by tuberculosis, emaciated and starved. It was women who came to us, the sickest. The summer of 1945 was a strange summer. Never has the sun shone so often and so hot. The roses have never bloomed so brightly and smelled so sweetly in Rosengården. The fountain ripples, and the swallows fly as fast as arrows. In the arcades, there is a bed next to a bed. The eight months we lived inside the barbed wire with our refugees gave us more than they had to receive."

Two weeks, from 15 July - 8 August 1945 at the Emergency Hospital in Sigtuna. Information found by Roman Wasserman Wroblewski at Swedish Archives, Marieberg. Here are three pages of diagnosis cards of Holocaust Survivor, Rywka Posladek, brought from Bergen-Belsen. She arrived with the second White Boat, S/S Kastelholm to Stockholm. The first page of the Diagnosis card is the information about the patient's identity. Name and date of birth, date of arrival at the hospital, and also the number the patient received in Lübeck, here 4179. As for Sigtuna patients, under Diagnosis, you will find everything from convalescent to post-typhoid and TBC. On the first page, is a piece of information such as incoming and outgoing and also "healthy" and "dead" to tick off. Often, the doctors have sketched by hand where there are solidifications in the patient's lungs after the X-ray investigation. The patient's medical history (anamnesis) is of importance for the problems for which the patient was admitted. The medical history on the back of the Diagnosis Card contains information about the patient's family, all the steps, and at the same time, the course of the Holocaust. Sometimes there are several cards as each card covers 17 days. The patient's temperature and pulse/heart rate are recorded on the front of the card. On the following pages of the Diagnosis Card, medication and other laboratory tests are recorded.  Posladek Rywka (Regina) from Poland died on August 8, 1945, 3 weeks after arriving in Stockholm on the White boat S/S Kastelholm.

PhD student Daniel Leviathan plagiarized my data and together with the Jewish Congregation applied for recognition for it. His way of plagiarizing is described in a report to Lund University's rector.  It was found that he visited the Swedish Archives, Marieberg after these data were published and asked personnel for help to find the Diagnosis card of Posladek Rywka.

My own Sigtuna. 

The image of the girls from Bergen-Belsen standing behind a barbed wire in Sigtuna eluded me for a long time. It was about the place where the photo was taken. I had actually, two options to choose from. The stairs on the way to the student residence Berga or Backa within the area of ​​the  Sigtuna Läroverket or a similar staircase within the Sigtuna Foundation's area. Stairs and buildings were designed by the same architect and were in several places within the area. I knew the stairs in the educational institution well when my daughter lived there for two years. The area within the Sigtuna Foundation was quite unfamiliar to me. On the way to a meeting at the Sigtuna Foundation, I suddenly saw my stairs. Although it was empty, it was suddenly filled with young women from Bergen-Belsen. They stood behind a barbed wire fence that was drawn between the Sigtuna Foundation's Library and the rest of the area on the hill where the emergency hospital has been located. Suddenly I was transferred to the summer of 1945.

 

Two weeks, from 15 July - 8 August 1945 at the Emergency Hospital in Sigtuna.

Two weeks, from 15 July - 8 August 1945 at the Emergency Hospital in Sigtuna. Information found by Roman Wasserman Wroblewski at Swedish Archives, Marieberg. Here are three pages of diagnosis cards of Holocaust Survivor, Rywka Posladek, brought from Bergen-Belsen. She arrived with the second White Boat, S/S Kastelholm to Stockholm. The first page of the Diagnosis card is the information about the patient's identity. Name and date of birth, date of arrival at the hospital, and also the number the patient received in Lübeck, here 4179. As for Sigtuna patients, under Diagnosis, you will find everything from convalescent to post-typhoid and TBC. On the first page, is a piece of information such as incoming and outgoing and also "healthy" and "dead" to tick off. Often, the doctors have sketched by hand where there are solidifications in the patient's lungs after the X-ray investigation. The patient's medical history (anamnesis) is of importance for the problems for which the patient was admitted. The medical history on the back of the Diagnosis Card contains information about the patient's family, all the steps, and at the same time, the course of the Holocaust. Sometimes there are several cards as each card covers 17 days. The patient's temperature and pulse/heart rate are recorded on the front of the card. On the following pages of the Diagnosis Card, medication and other laboratory tests are recorded. Posladek Rywka (Regina) from Poland died on August 8, 1945, 3 weeks after arriving in Stockholm on the White boat S/S Kastelholm.
PhD student Daniel Leviathan plagiarized my data and together with the Jewish Congregation of Stockholm applied for recognition for it. His way of plagiarizing is described in a report to Lund University's rector. It was found that he visited the Swedish Archives, Marieberg after these data were published and asked personnel for help to find the Diagnosis card of Posladek Rywka.