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Winther 1946. Lövsätra-Täby, Sweden. Today, I have a date with the sweet girl sitting in the corner of the classroom. It's been 75 years since this picture has been taken. Rachela from Piotrków Trybunalski (Ralinka as her older sister use to call her) was pupil in this small class of children that survived the Holocaust and her sister was a teacher there. On the photo Estera sits in the right corner. Rachela´s and Estera´s mother, Janka Fajner, died few days after the liberation of Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in April 1945. Today, I have a date with the sweet girl sitting in the corner of the classroom. It's been 75 years since this picture has been taken. She belongs to the group Kinderheim children from Bergen-Belsen who came to Sweden on July 26, 1945, with the White Boat S/S Kastelholm.She belongs to the group Kinderheim children from Bergen-Belsen who came to Malmö, Sweden on July 26, 1945, with the White Boat S/S Kastelholm. |
In the aftermath of UNRRA's White Boats...
Today, I have a date with the sweet girl sitting in the corner of the classroom. It's been 75 years since this picture has been taken.
She belongs to the group Kinderheim children from Bergen-Belsen who came to Sweden on July 26, 1945, with the White Boat S/S Kastelholm.
80 % of the children in the picture have left Sweden in 1946-1947 and gone to Eretz Israel.
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| Former White Boat S/S Kastelholm in Stockholm during 60-ties. On the left City Hall in Stockholm. |
