 The Holocaust monument in Stockholm, 6 stones - 6 million by Justyna Bamba and Roman Wasserman Wroblewski was built to tell also the traumatic story of selection. The 6 stones have the names of concentration and death camps like Auschwitz, Majdanek, Belzec, Chelmno, Treblinka, and Sobibor. The stones are the symbol of the death place of the families of the girls and women buried in Stockholm. Just next to the memorial stones.  |
| Young Holocaust victims, the girls buried at Jewish cemetery in Stockholm often described the process of selection camps directly after the liberation when registered in Lübeck. See above, a typical DP-2 card. Just simple words. The family last seen in Auschwitz. Parents and two sisters were murdered in Auschwitz. Parents, three sisters, and two brothers. The selection and separation were rather quick. Suddenly the girls and young women were the only ones of the big family who were left alive! The grave tombs of Holocaust victims together with 6 stones is a wonderful act of reunion of the families separated during the industrial Holocaust. The sudden and unexplained removal of the 6 memorial stones in July by the Jewish Congregation of Stockholm effectively destroyed this family reunion, the integrity, and the concept of the Monument. This reunion was as well a part of the concept by Roman Wasserman Wroblewski of teaching about the Holocaust to the young Swedes. |
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| This is a real photo of selection and separation of the families. It shows the arrival of Hungarian Jews from Carpatho-Ruthenia to Auschwitz death camp. Many of them came from the Berehovo Ghetto, which itself was a collecting point for Jews from several other small towns. |
The Holocaust Monument in the North Jewish Cemetery in Stockholm, 6 stones - 6 million, by Justyna Bamba and Roman Wasserman Wroblewski from the Swedish Holocaust Memorial Association, was built to mark the graves of the young Holocaust victims and also to tell the traumatic stories of their lives.
As part of the project, the graves which were invisible after 70 years of neglect have been uncovered and cleaned and the six stones marked this previously forgotten area that was by many considered reserved for future burials.
The Holocaust Monument captures not only the memory of the young victims who are buried there but also the fate of their family members who perished in the death camps represented by its six memorial stones.
The sudden and unexplained removal of those stones in late July by the Jewish Congregation of Stockholm has effectively destroyed the integrity and the concept of the Monument. The 6 stones have the names of concentration and death camps like Auschwitz, Majdanek, Belzec, Chelmno, Treblinka, and Sobibor. The stones are the symbol of the death place of the families of the girls and women buried in Stockholm.
As part of the work on the Monument, the information was researched and gathered not only about the victims themselves but also about the fate of their families. This was obtained from the medical histories compiled by the Swedish doctors at the time of the women's arrival, indicating where other members of their families perished. Thus, the Monument commemorates also the death of their families and allows a symbolic joining of the victims with their families which were separated in the selection process described below.
The Holocaust selection process refers to who was chosen for forced labour and who was sent to gas chambers upon arrival in the concentration camps such as Auschwitz. The victims, often entire families, were originally deported out of their hometowns to ghettos and sent by train in cattle wagons to one of the main labour and death camps.
Upon arrival, there was a selection. Families were separated. Men were placed separately from women and children. Afterwards, an SS physician, would decide whether they were in good physical health to be put to work or to be sent to the gas chamber. The prisoners had to go to the left or to the right with no further explanation.
The girls buried at Jewish cemetery in Stockholm described this process directly after the liberation when registered in Lübeck and thereafter at Swedish beredskapssjukhus - emergency hospital, after having been transported by UNRRA action White boats. Just simple words. Parents and two sisters murdered in Auschwitz. Parents, three sisters and two brothers. Separation was rather quick. Suddenly the girls and young women were the only ones of the big family who were left alive!
The grave tombs of Holocaust victims buried in Stockholm together with 6 stones is a wonderful act of reunion the families separated during the industrial Holocaust. Sudden and unexplained removal of the 6 memorial stones in July by the Jewish Congregation of Stockholm effectively destroyed this family reunion, the integrity and the concept of the Monument.
This reunion was as well a part of the concept of the teaching about the Holocaust to the young Swedes. The special system of QR codes was invented by dr. Wasserman Wroblewski.
Someone wrote to me today: Such a valuable work and Monument. So many people who survived the camps during the war nevertheless died in the Shoah (the Holocaust).
The grave tombs of Holocaust victims together with 6 stones is a wonderful act of reunion the families separated during the industrial Holocaust.This reunion was as well a part om the concept of the teaching about the Holocaust of the young Swedish. The special system of QR codes was invented by dr. Wasserman Wroblewski. Here on the left the code at the grave of the Holocaust victim Vera Krémer. This code leads us to information about Vera Krémers life a.o. ghetto in Hungary, the transport in cattle wagons to Auschwitz and here selection and separation from her mother that was chosen to died by suffocation in the Auschwitz gas chamber. Picture on the right is the code describing the Auschwitz in general.
