Saturday, May 28, 2022

German minesweepers were escorting UNRRAs White Boats - Old information found in the acts of the Royal Naval Board of Logistics and of the Naval Staff. Kinderheim children from Bergen-Belsen onboard of the last White Boat transport from the Germany.

Many messages sent through the Swedish Marine Radio were classified as secret signal messages
Many messages sent through the Swedish Marine Radio were classified as secret signal messages - see Hemlig red stamp on the top of the signal message. Here is the report about the German minesweepers moving South.






The White Boat mission by UNRRA has passed through history rather unnoticed, also among the Jews. That is most probably due to the heavy Swedish propaganda that wanted to make Mr. Bernadotte from the Swedish Red Cross was the only person that was responsible for all the actions of taking the Jews to Sweden at the end of World War II. Actually, most of the Jews arrived in Sweden with UNRRAs White boat action and by two trains that arrived from Germany to Padborg in Denmark. Few Jews, approximately 1 500 arrived in Sweden by action known later as White buses.


 its reception by British forces in Luebeck, and escort by German minesweepers as well as other items. My main sources for my book The Liberated 1945 - White Boat Mission from Bergen-Belsen to Sweden have been different Swedish archives. In this paper, the documents from the archives of the Royal Naval Board of Logistics and of the Naval Staff from the Swedish War Archive or State Archive were supplemented by the documents from the other archives, a.o. Arolsen Archives and archives of the Swedish Holocaust Memorial Association.