From Piotrków Trybunalski to Sweden - From the album of Dutch nurse - Anne Bonsel who took care of the Kinderheim children after the liberation of Bergen-Belsen.

From the album of Dutch nurse - Anne Bonsel who took care of the Kinderheim children after the liberation of Bergen-Belsen.

 

Soon after the British liberated (took over) the Bergen-Belsen camp in April 1945, a Dutch nurse, Annie Bonsel, came there with doctor Robert Collis and Han Hogerzeil as part of the UNRRA and Red Cross teams. In Bergen-Belsen Hospital nurse Annie Bonsel kept a scrapbook of documents concerning liberated children from Barrack 211.

Annie Bonsel was so dedicated to her work and the care of children that she decided to follow them with the White Boat fleet to Sweden. She and the children came to Sweden on a very last boat from Lübeck that carried mainly Jewish children from the Bergen-Belsen ward.