Monday, July 3, 2023

Numerous adoptable Jewish children, also infants, came with the UNRRA White Boat Mission to Malmö in July 1945. Most of them came from Bergen-Belsen.

Numerous adoptable Jewish children, also infants, came with the UNRRA White Boat Mission to Malmö in July 1945. Most of them came from Bergen-Belsen.


Dr. Robert (Bob) Collis with the Bergen-Belsen orphans (or UNRRA White Boat Orphans) as he arrives with five of them from Sweden - at Dublin Airport, in 1946. Jewish families were found for three children while Dr, Collis decided to adopt the siblings Zoltan and Edit.


Numerous single Jewish children, also infants, came with the UNRRA White Boat Mission to Malmö in July 1945. Most of them came from Bergen-Belsen. They were "adoptable". However, only one child was adopted in Scandinavia. Several to Ireland. The vast majority came in 1946-1948 to Eretz Israel - my heroes! No adoptions among Swedish Jews.

In photos is Dr. Robert (Bob) Collis with the Bergen-Belsen orphans (or UNRRA White Boat Orphans) as he arrives with five of them from Sweden - at Dublin Airport, in 1946. Jewish families were found for three children while Dr, Collis decided to adopt the siblings Zoltan and Edit.