Wednesday, August 23, 2023

Piotrków Trybunalski, Kinderheim and Sundsgården - Brothers, sisters and cousins.




















Piotrków Trybunalski, Kinderheim, and Sundsgården are the places in the history of several Jewish children that survived the Holocaust. Piotrków Trybunalski means here Piotrków Ghetto, Kinderheim means barrack number 211 in the concentration camp Bergen-Belsen and finally Sundsgården is the place where the group of children stayed as the very first place in Sweden in July 1945. 

Brothers, sisters, and cousins describe that besides siblings in the group, there were also several cousins.  Numerous children survived with their mothers and with aunts, both on the mother's and father's side.

When studying the DP-2 cards issued in Lübeck I found several such relations in this group.