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| One page from SUK - STATENS UTLÄNNINGSKOMMISSION - Swedish National Tracing Bureau tells almost the entire history of the Holocaust. The page contains data about the children that arrived in Sweden with UNRRA White Boats in July 1945. |
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| Jewish children that were liberated in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp were brought to Sweden by UNRRAs action in June-July 1945, later known as White Boats. One of the first places they had to stay during the 14-day karanteen was Sundsgården. |
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| DP-2 card from Lübeck |
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| DP-2 card from Lübeck - Observe (20) Signature of Registrand EGON HOL. Egon was just 6 months when WWII started. Egon Holländer’s mother Elisabeth died 1945 in Bergen-Belsen of typhus; she was 34 years old. Probably she was the one to teach Egon to write. Egon was one of the Jewish children, liberated in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp and brought to Sweden by UNRRAs action in June-July 1945, later known as White Boats. |
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| Medical card from Sundsgården |
Läkarkort - Medical card from Sundsgården of Holländer Egon born 1938 L/7897. He and Sigmund Sigmund Baumöhl that was a friend of Egon arrived in Malmö together with Kinderheim group of children. Boys were inmates first in Ravensbrück camp and later in Bergen-Belsen.
Thereafter both were at the Dr. Collis Children's Ward at Round House in Bergen-Belsen. Dr. Robert Collis wrote the following in his book Straight On:
A little white-skinned Slavonic person of about six years old lay very quietly in his cot. He neither moved nor spoke. He had had typhus; he was all skin and bones.
Egon Holländer (born in Martin, today’s Slovakia, in 1938) after his liberation from Bergen-Belsen. Egon Holländer’s mother Elisabeth died in Bergen-Belsen of typhus; she was 34 years old. Egon left Sweden after one year and moved to Czechoslovakia. As the troops of the Warsaw Pact suppressed the 1968 Prague Spring, Egon Holländer, who had a degree in engineering, fled to Zurich. He became a corporate executive in the technology industry. He is married and has two daughters and three grandchildren.
At the end of Spring 1944, the Baumöhl family and other Jewish families from Prešov ed to a small town nearby, Spišské Vlachy, thus hoping to survive the war. When they tried to go into hiding in a neighboring village their plans were thwarted and the fugitives had to return to Spišské Vlachy. There seemed to be no way to avoid deportation and their luggage was ready when, in the early days of October 1944, German soldiers came looking for them. They were rounded up in trucks and taken to Prešov. From there they were sent by cattle train to Ravensbrück.
Soon after his arrival at camp, he witnessed two events that would remain engraved forever in his memory. The first episode he remembered was when men, women, and children were separated, and when an SS officer allowed his father to hand over the blanket draped around his shoulders to his son. Sigmund Baumöhl then watched him kiss his mother and line up with the men’s column. The second occurred when, sometime later, while he was waiting inside a room, he caught a glimpse of the blue sky through the window, like a little corner of freedom. «I would always think of that moment, not only in the concentration camp but also later on in my life, during difficult times», he admits. Both his grandmothers died at the camp. Apart from a few happy moments, like playing with his friend Egon Holländer, who lives in Zurich today, and the birth of a little girl inside their barrack, their daily life was dominated by hardship and pain. Hunger was a steady companion and unbearable images have stuck to his mind to this day. Marta Baumöhl and her son were evacuated to Bergen-Belsen. Before leaving Marta Baumöhl was able to see her husband again… but young Sigmund did not recognize his father, because he was wearing a prisoner’s suit. Henrik Baumöhl was bound to die during a death march leaving Sachsenhausen concentration camp. In Bergen-Belsen, the child got weaker and weaker. Given that the only food available was turnips from a nearby eld, he suffered from chronic diarrhea and could barely leave the barrack. Sigmund met other children from Prešov, such as Irma Grosswirth and Ivan Lefkovits, who now lives near Basel and with whom he is very close.
After the liberation of Bergen-Belsen, Sigmund Baumöhl’s mother disappeared from his sight. Later he was to learn that she had died of typhus shortly after the camp’s liberation. Sigmund was then looked after by an Irish pediatrician (Dr. Robert Collis) who had set up an improvised hospital inside the camp. He weighed 10 kg. Sigmund Baumöhl was sent to the seaside town of Malmö in August 1945, on the southernmost tip of Sweden, for convalescence and rehabilitation. He spent almost ten months there, gradually trying to nd his way back to life. He holds fond and grateful memories of the doctor, the nurses, and the children. He returned to Prešov in 1946, but because of his weakened condition, he was admitted to a sanatorium for children in the High Tatras for three years. «A chapter of my life was coming to a close,» he says.
One page from SUK - STATENS UTLÄNNINGSKOMMISSION - Swedish National Tracing Bureau tells almost the entire history of the Holocaust. The page contains data about the children that arrived in Sweden with UNRRA White Boats in July 1945. Here is a short story about Sala, just 7 years old when WWII started and she and her family were imprisoned in the Piotrków Trybunalski Ghetto. In October 1942 started the deportations of the Jews from Piotrków Ghetto to the death camp Treblinka. Salas's 4 sisters were transported to Treblinka. Salas's parents were shot in Piotrków. The only survivor in the family was Salas's aunt Zerla Frenkel that before WWII started left for Palestine-Erec Israel. Sala Frenkel left Sweden in May 1946, actually on the same boat that almost 1 year earlier brought her to Sweden, S/S Kastelholm, for Calais in France. Thereafter she went to southern France and from there to Erec Israel - Palestine.
Thereafter both were at the Dr. Collis Children's Ward at Round House in Bergen-Belsen. Dr. Robert Collis wrote the following in his book Straight On:
A little white-skinned Slavonic person of about six years old lay very quietly in his cot. He neither moved nor spoke. He had had typhus; he was all skin and bones.
Egon Holländer (born in Martin, today’s Slovakia, in 1938) after his liberation from Bergen-Belsen. Egon Holländer’s mother Elisabeth died in Bergen-Belsen of typhus; she was 34 years old. Egon left Sweden after one year and moved to Czechoslovakia. As the troops of the Warsaw Pact suppressed the 1968 Prague Spring, Egon Holländer, who had a degree in engineering, fled to Zurich. He became a corporate executive in the technology industry. He is married and has two daughters and three grandchildren.
At the end of Spring 1944, the Baumöhl family and other Jewish families from Prešov ed to a small town nearby, Spišské Vlachy, thus hoping to survive the war. When they tried to go into hiding in a neighboring village their plans were thwarted and the fugitives had to return to Spišské Vlachy. There seemed to be no way to avoid deportation and their luggage was ready when, in the early days of October 1944, German soldiers came looking for them. They were rounded up in trucks and taken to Prešov. From there they were sent by cattle train to Ravensbrück.
Soon after his arrival at camp, he witnessed two events that would remain engraved forever in his memory. The first episode he remembered was when men, women, and children were separated, and when an SS officer allowed his father to hand over the blanket draped around his shoulders to his son. Sigmund Baumöhl then watched him kiss his mother and line up with the men’s column. The second occurred when, sometime later, while he was waiting inside a room, he caught a glimpse of the blue sky through the window, like a little corner of freedom. «I would always think of that moment, not only in the concentration camp but also later on in my life, during difficult times», he admits. Both his grandmothers died at the camp. Apart from a few happy moments, like playing with his friend Egon Holländer, who lives in Zurich today, and the birth of a little girl inside their barrack, their daily life was dominated by hardship and pain. Hunger was a steady companion and unbearable images have stuck to his mind to this day. Marta Baumöhl and her son were evacuated to Bergen-Belsen. Before leaving Marta Baumöhl was able to see her husband again… but young Sigmund did not recognize his father, because he was wearing a prisoner’s suit. Henrik Baumöhl was bound to die during a death march leaving Sachsenhausen concentration camp. In Bergen-Belsen, the child got weaker and weaker. Given that the only food available was turnips from a nearby eld, he suffered from chronic diarrhea and could barely leave the barrack. Sigmund met other children from Prešov, such as Irma Grosswirth and Ivan Lefkovits, who now lives near Basel and with whom he is very close.
After the liberation of Bergen-Belsen, Sigmund Baumöhl’s mother disappeared from his sight. Later he was to learn that she had died of typhus shortly after the camp’s liberation. Sigmund was then looked after by an Irish pediatrician (Dr. Robert Collis) who had set up an improvised hospital inside the camp. He weighed 10 kg. Sigmund Baumöhl was sent to the seaside town of Malmö in August 1945, on the southernmost tip of Sweden, for convalescence and rehabilitation. He spent almost ten months there, gradually trying to nd his way back to life. He holds fond and grateful memories of the doctor, the nurses, and the children. He returned to Prešov in 1946, but because of his weakened condition, he was admitted to a sanatorium for children in the High Tatras for three years. «A chapter of my life was coming to a close,» he says.
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| One page from SUK - STATENS UTLÄNNINGSKOMMISSION - Swedish National Tracing Bureau tells almost the entire history of the Holocaust. The page contains data about the children that arrived in Sweden with UNRRA White Boats in July 1945. Here is a short story about Sala, just 7 years old when WWII started and she and her family were imprisoned in the Piotrków Trybunalski Ghetto. In October 1942 started the deportations of the Jews from Piotrków Ghetto to the death camp Treblinka. Salas's 4 sisters were transported to Treblinka. Salas's parents were shot in Piotrków. The only survivor in the family was Salas's aunt Zerla Frenkel that before WWII started left for Palestine-Erec Israel. |
SALA FRENKEL 4-4-1932, Petrikau, Polish Jew.
Father Kiva Frenkel 1895 Kielce. Shot in Petrikau 1942.
Mother Genendela Frenkel 1900, Zernow shot in Petrikau 1942
Sisters:
Estera Ita Frenkel, 1917, Petrikau, transported from Petrikau 1942.
Rivka Frenkel, 1921, Petrikau, transported from Petrikau 1942.
Faiga Frenkel, 1926, Petrikau, transported from Petrikau 1942.
Roza Frenkel, 1929, Petrikau, transported from Petrikau 1942.
Aunt Zerla Frenkel in Palestina.
Has been in Ravensbrück and in Bergen.
Went with "Kastelholm" to Calais 13.5.1946.
