Thursday, October 1, 2026

UNRRA White Boats and Holocaust survivors in Sweden.

 How Strength is Regained - Newsreel 1945-10-20

This report, sourced from SF’s weekly newsreel on October 20, 1945, shows prisoners from German concentration camps who were rescued and brought to Sweden during the final stages of World War II.
The reporting team visits Kummelnäs on Ormingelandet outside Stockholm, where refugees from Poland, Romania, and Czechoslovakia are being provided with winter clothing. The report concludes with a retrospective look showing refugees being retrieved by a Swedish relief expedition to Lübeck in June of that same year.