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| The message sent by Dr Hans Arnoldson to Stockholm about the last passengers included in the UNRRA White Boat mission. The message was sent on July 20, 1945. Dr. Arnoldson mentions 34 Norwegian children. The same number is given in the book by Dr. Robert Collis. |
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| Page 5 of the passenger list of S/S Kastelholm leaving on July 25, 1945. The entry card number of Norwegian children started with the number 7737. Thereafter the Jewish children were registered with numbers starting with 78XX. |
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Fiskeboda (the "Fiskeboda Flyktingläger), a place close to Katrineholm, was the second place the Norwegian and Jewish children stayed at. The Norwegian, Lebensborn children, and Jewish children, Holocaust survivors came to Sweden on the same White boat that arrived from Lübeck to Malmö on July 26, 1945, from Lübeck. Photo: Olof Liljekvist/Flygtrafik AB  The list of the Norwegian children that stayed at Fiskeboda. On the left there is an Inresenummer - The entry card number of Norwegian children started with the number 7737. There is information that the children's nationality was Norwegian (?) with a Norwegian mother and a German father. Children arrived as a group of 29 at Fiskeboda on August 24, 1945. On the same day arrived Jewish Children, the Holocaust survivors from Bergen-Belsen. Before that, both groups were placed at different places in Southern Sweden according to the karanteen regulations. |
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| Transfer from Sundsgården (Råå) to Fiskeboda flyktingläger. Sundsgården was the first place the Jewish children stayed at after arrival to Sweden with "Children White Boat", S/S Kastelholm. Inresenummer - The entry card number of Norwegian children started with the number 7737. Thereafter the Jewish children registered with numbers starting with 78XX. Actually, the group of Jewish children brought from the concentration camp Bergen-Belsen arrived at Fiskeboda on the same day as the Norwegian Lebensborn children. Before that, both groups were placed at different places in Southern Sweden according to the karanteen regulations. |
I described earlier the White Boat S/S Kastelholm and its trips during the UNRRA mission in 1945. The first three trips were from Lübeck to Stockholm starting last June 26, 1945. The last trip, what I call "Children Boat" was reserved for the children and children with mothers, the main part of the Polish Jews from the concentration camp Bergen-Belsen. Many of them were imprisoned for 6 years, to start with, in the ghettos of occupied Poland. To transport this particular group S/S Kastelholm was waiting for several days in the port of Lübeck. When looking at the passenger list of departing on July 25, 1945, there is one page with Norwegian names. Strange as most of the Norwegians imprisoned in Germany were transported to Sweden in April 1945 by White Buses mission.
I found later that the youngest child among the "Norwegian Children" was born in August 1944, just one year old, and the oldest one in July 1942, just three years old. Rather a uniform group with 24 boys and 6 girls. Numerous children named Fritz, Heinz, and Walter.., not Adolf. Norwegian children had the so-called DP-2 card, a card issued by Allied authorities in numerous European countries with DP camps. All other passengers had such cards with the Entry card (to Sweden) number. However, the information on the card was very, very sparse. No names of parents or birthplace. Common was the information at Remarks that they came from Bremen through the Norwegian Seaman Church in Hamburg.
The Lebensborn children were announced for adoption in Swedish newspapers and presented as full orphans found in concentration camps in Germany. Most of them were within some weeks, adopted through Swedish courts and subsequently granted Swedish nationality instead of German which, I supposed, was the case (See DP-2 cards from 1945 and and 1948).
For the adoption of genuine orphans from the concentration camps the permission of the children’s relatives was needed. If such was found, what was required was an agreement signed by authorities in their home countries.
Some 50,000 Norwegian women are believed to have had an intimate relationship with German soldiers with 10,000 to 12,000 Lebensborn children thought to have been born. After Norway was liberated in 1945, these women, nicknamed "German Girls" (tyskertøsen), were accused of betraying their country, deprived of their civil rights, arrested, incarcerated without trial, and even expelled from the country. It was never investigated how many Norwegian tyskertøsen were doing it "for Germany and Hitler" and how many of them were hoping by this type of human breeding to get better social status in new Nazi Norway. However, not all Norwegian Lebensborn children came from "planned breeding". Many children in the program came from anonymous births of unmarried women.
Reichsführer Heinrich Himmler, head of the SS was also a head of the Lebensborn organization. Lebensborn homes were also established in countries that the Nazis occupied. The SS considered Norwegian women to be ideal Nordic Aryan women and wanted them to become pregnant by German men. German soldiers and airmen were encouraged to be social and friendly with Norwegian women. The Norwegian Nazi-controlled puppet government was supporting the German Lebensborn program and nine Lebensborn homes were created in Norway. Thus, resulting in ten to twelve thousand births. It is not known how many of these Norwegian women in the Lebensborn program did sympathize with Nazism. I believe that the propaganda pressure in Norway ruled by Naziz was strong.
Norwegian authorities got, after the German surrender access to Lebensborn After the German surrender, this archive with unique, detailed information about 8 500 war children and their Norwegian mothers and also their German fathers. Actually, Norway was the only occupied country in which a central Lebensborn archive had been created. First, in 2005 Norwegian parliament decided to give compensation to Lebensborn children, usually in Norway called "War children". The total number of war children who applied for it in 2006-07 was 2 025.
30 "Norwegian Children" came officially from an orphanage in Bremerhaven, came with the Children's Boat from Lübeck to Malmö, and then the Norwegian children went to Fiskeboda outside Katrineholm. Actually, 30 children brought on Children Boat were so-called Lebensborn children.
Fiskeboda, a place close to Katrineholm, was the first place the Norwegian children stayed at. After they left Fiskeboda, the group of Jewish children (Holocaust survivors) that actually came to Sweden on the same White boat entered the "Fiskeboda Flyktingläger".
These 30 Norwegian children found at a Lebensborn home in Bremen were originally destined to be shipped to Norway but probably the Norwegians were too afraid for the welcome to this group as their Norwegian mothers were already named as German whores and many got their heads shaved. Many were imprisoned in camps in Norway and got their citizenship withdrawn.
Fiskeboda, a place close to Katrineholm, was the first place the Norwegian children stayed at. After they left Fiskeboda, the group of Jewish children (Holocaust survivors) that actually came to Sweden on the same White boat entered the "Fiskeboda Flyktingläger".
The Lebensborn children were announced for adoption in Swedish newspapers and presented as full orphans found in concentration camps in Germany. Most of them were within some weeks, adopted through Swedish courts and subsequently granted Swedish nationality instead of German which, I supposed, was the case (See DP-2 cards from 1945 and and 1948).
For the adoption of genuine orphans from the concentration camps the permission of the children’s relatives was needed. If such was found, what was required was an agreement signed by authorities in their home countries.
Some 50,000 Norwegian women are believed to have had an intimate relationship with German soldiers with 10,000 to 12,000 Lebensborn children thought to have been born. After Norway was liberated in 1945, these women, nicknamed "German Girls" (tyskertøsen), were accused of betraying their country, deprived of their civil rights, arrested, incarcerated without trial, and even expelled from the country. It was never investigated how many Norwegian tyskertøsen were doing it "for Germany and Hitler" and how many of them were hoping by this type of human breeding to get better social status in new Nazi Norway. However, not all Norwegian Lebensborn children came from "planned breeding". Many children in the program came from anonymous births of unmarried women.
The last child, the youngest one, in the group of 30 Norwegian children that came to Sweden was conceived in late December 1943. At this time, after the Battle of Kursk, it was clear that Germany would lose the war.
Numerous "Me too" actions, also from today's historians are nowadays supporting opposing ideas to what was proclaimed after WWII. We have to consider that Norwegian Lebensborn Children was a heterogeneous group and the description above of a very homogeneous group of thirty children represents only a very, very small percentage of the total.
It is likely that after the birth babies fathered by Germans and born in Norway were transferred to the Lebensborn homes/orphanages in the Reich. The liberation of Germany found thousands of Lebensborn children who did not know who they were as many of Lebensborn's home documents were destroyed but not the Norwegian. The number of Lebensborn children who were transported to Germany with and without their mothers is not officially known.
It is likely that after the birth babies fathered by Germans and born in Norway were transferred to the Lebensborn homes/orphanages in the Reich. The liberation of Germany found thousands of Lebensborn children who did not know who they were as many of Lebensborn's home documents were destroyed but not the Norwegian. The number of Lebensborn children who were transported to Germany with and without their mothers is not officially known.
Norwegian authorities got, after the German surrender access to Lebensborn After the German surrender, this archive with unique, detailed information about 8 500 war children and their Norwegian mothers and also their German fathers. Actually, Norway was the only occupied country in which a central Lebensborn archive had been created. First, in 2005 Norwegian parliament decided to give compensation to Lebensborn children, usually in Norway called "War children". The total number of war children who applied for it in 2006-07 was 2 025.
It is likely that some of the "Norwegian Children" grew up believing that they were Holocaust survivors.
Nästan alla judiska barn åkte vidare till Eretz Israel. Första gruppen av de överlevande judiska barn stannade i Sverige enbart 10 månader. Även andra Förintelseöverlevande, vuxna och ungdomar, har inte välkomnats sk hjärtligt av de judiska församlingarna i Sverige. Numera vill man förklara sig, med nya fakta (?) i en Vit bok som en historiker har skrivit, beställningsarbete..
