Which number should one choose in the description, when indexing the "Swedish documents? DP-1 or DP-2 or the Lübeck number - L-number.

 

DP-2 Card of Schwarz Jakob that was on June 23, 1945 transported by ambulance train from Bergen-Belsen Hospital to Lübeck. The DP-2 card was issued on the day of arrival to Swedish Transit Hospital where all former inmates were registered and hospitalised until the day of departure. In the left upper corner there is DP-1 number from very first registration in Bergen-Belsen. Another number, L-number in the upper right corner is the number from the Swedish Entry card (Inreseuppgift-kortet) that were also filled in Lübeck. In the lower part in red is the name of the White Boat "Kronprinsessan Ingrid" and the day of departure, here June 26, 1945.

Medical card (Läkarkort) of Schwarz Jakob that on June 28, 1945 arrived by White Boat "Kronprinsessan Ingrid" from Lübeck to Gothenburg. This Medical card was issued on the day of arrival to Vasa Hospital. As this was the very first transport to Sweden of the former inmates from Bergen-Belsen they were registered using almost all available numbers, including DP-1, DP-2, L-, and local hospital registration numbers. At the top of the card, there is DP-1 number from the very first registration in Bergen-Belsen. The L-number, 142 from the Swedish Entry card (Inreseuppgift-kortet) has been incorporated in the registration number 35/L142. Observe that the medical examination was performed on the same day when White Boat "Kronprinsessan Ingrid" arrived in Gothenburg, on June 28, 1945.

L-number on the Swedish Entry card (Inreseuppgift-kortet). This card was used for the Swedish police records and information about the place of stay of the immigrants, see the card below.

L-number: 7734 on the Swedish Entry card (Inreseuppgift-kortet) of Sala Mastbaum. The back of the card was used for the Swedish police records and information about the place of stay of the immigrants, see the back of card on the right. Sala Mastbaum left Sweden just 1 year after arrival. Probably she was in the group of children and youngsters that went to the port of Calais to Paris and thereafter to Lyon and finally as legal immigrants to Eretz Israel.

L-number on the Swedish Entry card (Inreseuppgift-kortet). This Entry card was probably printed some months later than the card above. The L-number is called here Unrra.

From Voxnabruk to Eretz Israel through France.

The Lübeck number just concerns the Holocaust survivors that arrived with UNRRAs White Boats.

The very first Holocaust survivors that arrived with spoke trains to Padborg and on White buses were not registered in the same way as the survivors do not have any DP or Lübeck numbers so it is likely that the best way will be to use L-number and eventually thereafter, at final indexing also DP-number. The problem with DP numbers is the number of digits and also the problem with mistakes.

DP-2 Card of Schwarz Jakob (top photo). He was on June 23, 1945, transported by ambulance train with 22 wagons from Bergen-Belsen Hospital to Lübeck. The DP-2 card was issued on the day of arrival to Swedish Transit Hospital where all former inmates were registered and hospitalized until the day of departure. In the left upper corner, there is DP-1 number from the very first registration in Bergen-Belsen. Another number, L-number in the upper left corner is the number from the Swedish Entry card (Inresekortet) that was also filled in Lübeck. In the lower part with red is the name of the White Boat "Kronprinsessan Ingrid" and the day of departure, here June 26, 1945.

A medical card (Läkarkort) was issued to all the former inmates that arrived by White Boats. They were different at different Hospitals. Numerous hospitals had, however, the cards like the one Schwarz Jakob received on June 28, 1945, upon arrival by White Boat "Kronprinsessan Ingrid" from Lübeck to Gothenburg - Göteborg. This Medical card was issued on the day of arrival to Vasa Hospital. As this was the very first transport of the former inmates from Bergen-Belsen they were registered using almost all possible numbers, including DP-1, DP-2, L- and local hospital registration numbers. In the middle, there is the DP-1 number from the very first registration in Bergen-Belsen. The L-number from the Swedish Entry card (Inresekortet) is included in the registration number. Observe that medical examination was performed on the same day White Boat "Kronprinsessan Ingrid" arrived at Gothenburg, here June 28, 1945.

Hur skötte Judiska församlingen gravar och minnet av Förintelsens offer begravda i Stockholm - Insändare i Dagens Nyheter.

Idag hittade jag en gammal insändare jag skrev till DN. Den handlade om de som kom till Sverige med UNRRAs aktion Vita båtar. De kom till Stockholm från koncentrationslägret Bergen-Belsen.

Jag skrev inte om den misskötseln av gravarna som blev en riktig shockupplevelse för mig.

Det speciella var att det var en medveten handling för att spara pengarna. De begravda hade ingen släkt eller en släkt långt borta.

 

The project is spearheaded by Roman Wroblewski, the Polish-born son of Holocaust survivors who emigrated to Sweden in 1967. Wroblewski, an emeritus medical school professor, also conceived the main Holocaust memorial in Stockholm.

A project is under way to restore the long-neglected graves of scores of Holocaust victims in Stockholm and to commemorate and identify those buried.

The graves in question — whose markers are sunken into the soil and located in a separate plot of the Jewish section of Stockholm’s Northern Cemetery — are those of about 100 people who were ill when liberated at Bergen-Belsen in 1945 and who died soon after being evacuated to Sweden for medical treatment.

One of the sunken grave markers. Photo: Roman Wroblewski

The project is spearheaded by Roman Wroblewski, the Polish-born son of Holocaust survivors who emigrated to Sweden in 1967. Wroblewski, an emeritus medical school professor, also conceived the main Holocaust memorial in Stockholm, dedicated at the city’s synagogue in 1998. That memorial lists around 8,500 names of Holocaust victims who were relatives of survivors who settled in Sweden after the war.

On the new memorial project, Wroblewski is working with city authorities and with the Stockholm Jewish community.

He presented a detailed plan for the project to city authorities at the end of 2018, and also contacted the director of the city museum earlier in the fall. Funds are now being sought for what he told JHE would be an approximately €145,000 undertaking.

Almost all of the burials in the plot are of  women and girls who had been among survivors who were found at or brought to Bergen-Belsen after its liberation by British forces in April 1945.  (Tens of thousands of prisoners were found starving or suffering from typhus and other diseases when Bergen-Belsen was liberated — Anne Frank had succumbed not long before liberation.)

They received immediate treatment at a British field hospital set up in former SS barracks nearby, and then at a Swedish field hospital in the Baltic Sea port of Lübeck staffed by British, Swedish and German doctors. Some died, but thousands were transported to Sweden on UNRRAs “White Boats” for medical attention. Wroblewski is a chairman of Swedish Holocaust Memorial Association..

"Swedish children" from barrack number 211 in Bergen-Belsen. Very last transport by White Boats from Lübeck to Sweden.

"Swedish children" from barrack number 211 in Bergen-Belsen.

The photos above are still images from a documentary movie made in April 1945 with the help of the famous director Alfred Hitchcock. The movie German Concentration Camps Factual Survey includes several scenes with the Kinderheim children from Bergen-Belsen after the liberation of Bergen-Belsen.

The photo above is of Barrack 211 and the team making a documentary movie with the help of the famous director Alfred Hitchcock. The movie German Concentration Camps Factual Survey includes several scenes with the Kinderheim children from Bergen-Belsen. Here mass grave that was created just behind the Kinderheim that can be seen in the background.

There were roughly 3,500 children under 15 years of age in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. Some of them were placed in the childern barracks. Most known are 44 Dutch Jewish children who were deported to Belsen on a dump truck and left in the middle of the camp one night in the summer of 1944. There was also the same number of children from the Piotrków Trybunalski Ghetto who were brought to Belsen through the Ravensbrück concentration camp.

After the liberation of the camp, most of the Dutch children returned to Holland. Approximately 50 other children, many of them from Piotrków Trybunalski in Poland, were sent with the very last transport by UNRRA White Boats from Lübeck to Sweden.

Holocaust survivor Mala H Tribich, pictured with her family in Poland before the outbreak of World War II. Mala is pictured front left.

Luba, third from the left followed Kinderheim children to Sweden

Elza Biller

From barrack number 211 - Kinderheim in Bergen-Belsen, approx. 50 children were moved by the UNRRA mission White Boats to Sweden. I am trying to identify all the children. They arrived on UNRRA's S/S Kastelholm on July 26 1945, in Malmö, Sweden.
Many of them left after some years in Sweden for Eretz Israel.  Among them were twins Eva and Vera Weiss, already in May 1946.

In Sweden, they have placed hospitals and special orphanages for Jewish children, Holocaust survivors, see photo.

Lusia-Luba Rosenblatt (Ahuva Margalit) on the left and Elsa Biller (Chandler) on the right.

Bergsjö

Bergsjö

Hanna Helfgott was born in 1936, and her cousin Mala Helfgott in 1930. Both in Piotrków Trybunalski, Poland. Mala was for a while outside the ghetto, hidden by a Polish family in Częstochowa. After Mala returned from the Aryan side to the ghetto, there were several roundups during which her mother and eight-year-old sister were taken. All these people were murdered in the local forest. Soon afterward, Mala had to undertake the responsibility of caring for her five-year-old cousin Hania (Hanna) Helfgott, whose mother was deported to a concentration camp. When the ghetto in Piotrków was finally liquidated, Mala (14 y) became a slave labourer in the Bugaj plywood factory until November 1944. Mala was separated from her father and brother and stayed together with Hanna. As the work was on shifts, other female inmates took care of little Hania, an 8-year-old. After 14 months, when the Russian front was approaching, they were sent to the Ravensbrück concentration camp. After about 10 weeks in Ravensbrück, they were transported in cattle trucks to Bergen-Belsen, where conditions were appalling. The first night, in February, they spent in a tent. Mala contracted typhus.

There were three Jewish women taking care of the children in the "Children barrack" - Barrack number 211. Luba Tryszynska was the one who had established the Kinderheim there. Her two helpers were Ada Bimko and Hermina. Also, a young Dutch girl, Hetty V. helped a lo

At the time of the liberation by the British army, Mala was very ill. She remembers that from her upper bunk, she saw people running. That was strange because most of the people did not have enough strength to go, but it was April 15, 1945, and the camp was liberated.
She was transferred to a hospital/children’s hom,e and it was many weeks before she recovered. 

Soon after the British liberated the Bergen-Belsen camp in April 1945, a Dutch nurse, Annie Bonsel, came there with Robert Collis and Han Hogerzeil as part of the Red Cross team.

Three months later, she was sent, with a large group of children, to Lübeck Transit Hospital and thereafter, by UNRRA's White Boat S/S Kastelholm to Sweden, where Mala spent nearly two years. As many other Holocaust survivors, Mala was not expecting any of her family to be alive. Mala was therefore surprised to receive a letter from her brother Ben in England. He was the only other member of her close family to have survived, and of course, little Hania, Malas' cousin.

At the same time, Malas' father, Moszek, and her brother Beniek (Benjamin) were sent to the Buchenwald concentration camp.

Mala´s brother, Ben, survived. Firs,t in March 1947, Mala left Sweden and came to England to be reunited with her brother Ben. She left her cousin Hanna Helfgott, 11 years old, alone in Sweden.

Holocaust survivor boys and girls from Poland who came to a children's house in Sweden.The photo was taken next to the children's house in Billesholm, Villa Torrekul. Their counselors included Egon Kux and his wife Adele - Deli. Identified: Halina Kreitmann (Krajtman) - kneeling first from the right; Lusia-Luba Rozenblatt (Jozef Rozenblat relative?) to check?)- kneeling second from the left.

 

Besides "Polish" children in the Kinderheim in Bergen -Belsen there was a big group of Dutch children. During the Holocaust, Dutch children were usually first sent to the Westerbork transit camp and from there to other camps, such as Bergen-Belsen. Most of the Dutch children repatriated went back to Holland after the end of WWII. Numerous were, however, brought to Sweden during the UNRRA White Boats mission. Information about children imprisoned in Holland can be found on "Pink Cards" that were, to start with, issued by the Dutch Judenrat and thereafter used by Germans. After WWII Dutch Red Cross used the same cards and added the tracing information on it. Hirsch Bela was brought to Sweden on July 26, 1945 on White Boat S/S Kastelholm.  Also, some mothers of the Diamond Children were brought separately, at the end of WWII. to Sweden.

Children from Bergen-Belsen Barrack 211 and other young Holocaust survivors, who came to Sweden by White Boats in July 1945, usually left for Eretz Israel in 1946-1948.
In Sweden, they were schooled in a Children's house whose staff included Egon and Adela Kux. In 1947, they moved to France. They resided in the Chateau de la Serra in Villette D'Anthon, near Lyon. The next stop was Eretz Israel.

Children from Bergen-Belsen, Kinderheim, barrack 211, who came to Sweden by UNRRA White Boats in July 1945, and other young Holocaust survivors at a roll call at a children's house at Chateau de la Serra in Villette D'Anthon in France. The sign at the entrance reads (in Yiddish)/ Popular national Jewish aid. The Israeli and French flags hang above the entrance and Theodor Herzl in the window.

Chateau de la Serra in Villette D'Anthon in France,  near Lyon.

Note:
Egon Kux was born on 17 April 1913; Adele – Deli Sternberg was born on 18 September 1917. Both were born in Wien (Vienna). Egon was active in the Brith Bilu gymnasium students' movement, and he did not receive his PhD from the University of Vienna due to the Anschluss. Adela was active in the Blau – Weiss youth movement.
Not long before Kristallnacht, they were sent by the Viennese HeHalutz chapter to a hachshara (Zionist training camp) in Denmark. In late 1943, they were evacuated together with the majority of Danish Jews by fishing boats to neutral Sweden. Until 1945, the couple worked in a farm in Möllestad, Östra Husby. Egon served as a member of the HeHalutz secretariat in Sweden, and from 1946 to 1947, he was the director of a children's house for children survivors of the Bergen – Belsen camp. Adela was a caregiver in this children's house. Their daughter Naomi, who donated these materials, was born in Norrkoping.
The children's house operated from early 1946 to late May 1947, and was inhabited by 47 children from Poland, ages 9 -13, mostly from the city of Piotrkow Trybunalski. During the war, the boys were sent to Buchenwald, and the girls to the Ravensbrück camp. From these camps, they were transferred to Bergen – Belsen. In Sweden they have initially resided in the Lövsätra children's house in the city of Täby, and later in the Torekulls children's house in Billesholm, Sweden.



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Historyczna kartka ze swastyką - Dom Sierot - Chłodna 33

 

Barnsjukhuset i det Runda huset i Bergen-Belsen

Många av Förintelsens överlevande som kom till Sverige vid krigslutet minns "Runda huset" i Bergen-Belsen. I detta hus rymdes det allra första Bergen-Belsen sjukhuset. Det startade sin verksamhet tre veckor efter befrielsen, den 4 maj 1945.

Många av Förintelsens överlevande som kom till Sverige vid krigslutet minns "Runda huset" i Bergen-Belsen. I detta hus rymdes det allra första Bergen-Belsen sjukhuset. Det startade sin verksamhet 3 veckor efter befrielsen. Den 4 maj 1945 fylldes huset med sjukhussängar som fanns i alla rum, förråd och skrymslen och naturligtvis i den stora balsalen. Tiden för starten av sjukhusverksamheten stämmer väl överens med första de anteckningarna i patienternas Field Medical Card. Jag har inte sett några FMC-kort från Belsen med anteckningar gjorda i april-1945.

FMC-kortet av Zofia Mandel från Lodz, 17 år gammal vid befrielsen. Från Swedish Holocaust Memorial Association Arkiv. Zofia kom till Stockholm med UNRRAs Vita Båtar och dog strax efter ankomsten..

Man uppger att totalt fanns över 13.000 sjukbäddar i sjukhusområdet.  Runda huset tömdes på patienter 3 veckan av juni då de återstående patienterna flyttades till en annan lämpligare byggnad. Troligen så var den enorma balsalen i den fd Officers Mess som föll de unga överlevande i minnet. De har troligen aldrig tidigare sett en så stor och två våning hög sal, nu omvandlad till en sjukhussal fylld med ett par hundra sjukhussängar.

Eva Fischer från Ungern hade troligen sin sjukhussäng i den stora salen i det Runda Huset. Hennes säng hade nummer 18 i den sjätte raden - F. Swedish Holocaust Memorial Association Arkiv.

När lägret övertogs av den brittiska armén 15 april 1945 så används huset för olika administrativa ändamål av Brittiska 'Belsen Garrison". 17 - 19 april 1945 satt fängslad i Runda husets källare Bergen-Belsen kommendant Hauptsturmführer Josef Kramer. 

Efter att sjukhuset flyttade till en annan byggnad användes Runda huset som samlingspunkt och administration i DP-lägret. Många överlevande som hittade sin partner i DP-lägret gifte sig i Runda huset.

Chefsläkaren för barnsjukhuset hette dr. Robert Collis.

Efter att barnsjukhuset upplöstes  tog med sig sex sjuka, mestadels judiska, föräldralösa barn till Irland för adoption och institutionell vård. Collis, med sin fru Phyllis, adopterade två av dem. Senare Robert Collis gifte om sig med Han en tidigare holländsk volontär på sjukhuset.

Något sam man inte beskrivit särskilt mycket är att det fanns ett barnsjukhus eller barnklinik där.

Här i Sverige samarbetade Frälsningsarmén med Sigtuna-stiftelsen och tog emot patienter, överlevande judar från Bergen-Belsen som anlände med Folke Bernadottes 'Vita bussarna'. Tillsammans med röda korsläkare, sjukvårdspersonal och diakoner från Svenska kyrkan, arbetade ett antal frälsningssoldater och frälsningsofficerare under sommarmånaderna 1945 med att rehabilitera 597 överlevande kvinnor varav de flesta var bördiga från Polen, Ungern, dåvarande Tjeckoslovakien och Rumänien.

The White boat S/S Kastelholm last trip to Southern Sweden with Mengele´s twins - Weiss sisters - A 6026 and A 6027 - L: 7798 and L: 7900.

Eva Weiss during her stay at the Children's hospital in Landskrona, Sweden - summer 1945. 
Code SHMA: PHOTO A  Weiss Eva  b1932  Kinderheim.

Swedish documents of Vera Weiss including photos she used when applying for Swedish Främlingspass. Vera was at the Children's Hospital in Landskrona (top photo) and then at the orphanage at Bergsjö and Visingsö. She left with the large group of parentless children - Holocaust survivors for Eretz Israel on July 20, 1947. The photos were made for her Swedish Främling passport. Riksarkivet, Swedish National Archives, Marieberg.
Code SHMA: RASUK  Weiss Eva  b1932  Kinderheim

The back of the Swedish Entry card Inresekortet , the one with L-number was used for the Swedish police records and information about the place of stay of the immigrants. When Weiss Eva and her sister Vera left Sweden just 2 years after arrival. Probably she was in the group of children and youngsters that went to port of Calais to Paris and thereafter to Lyon and finally as legal immigrants to Eretz Israel.

The trip of the White Boat S/S Kastelholm with code name Black ship, which started on July 25, 1945, was a short trip to port of Malmö. Each child on the list has its L-number on it. L-number was the number of the Swedish Inresekortet, Entry card to Sweden. The L-number appears on numerous Swedish documents related to the Holocaust survivors brought to Sweden at the end of WWII. Eva Weiss has the L number 7900. The same number is seen in the right top corner of her DP-2 card issued in Lübeck 2 days before her departure to Sweden.

Code SHMA: UNRRASHIP  Weiss Eva  b1932  Kinderheim

Malmö port. Some children from Bergen-Belsen after their arrival to Sweden.

At the UNRRAs Lübeck Transit Hospital the the Weiss sisters, born August 8, 1932, were given Entry cards to Sweden with numbers L: 7798 and L: 7900. Also new DP-2 cards were issued there on July 24th, 1945. Both cards include information about their and their parent's fate during the Holocaust.  Arolsen archives.
Code SHMA for upper picture: DP-2  Weiss Eva  b1932  Kinderheim

Enlarged lower part of Eva Weiss DP-2 card. There is information that they were taken in July 1944 to Auschwitz, thereafter there is information about Ravensbrück and Bergen-Belsen. Here the information about death transports/marches between the camps that is present in the Swedish documents is missing. It is known that they were on the death march from Auschwitz. The final distance to Ravensbrück they were herded into open cargo wagons. Information at the bottom of the DP-2 card, "Father soldier in Serbia"  is rather characteristic as many of the Jewish men in Hungary and Czechoslovakia were recruited to forced labor in the framework of the "labor battalions" of the Hungarian Army. Hungary was an ally of Nazi Germany, and its army fought alongside Germany. DP-2 card from Arolsen archives.

Among the patients that arrived on the White Boat S/S Kastelholm to Malmö, Sweden were two of Mengele´s twins with tattoos A-6026 and A-6027. They were just twelve years old when they came to their first concentration camp Auschwitz where they lost their mother upon arrival. Above are two documents with the names of sisters Weiss from Auschwitz. The lower one is signed by the infamous dr. Mengele. Auschwitz Museum archives.

Code SHMA: AuschwitzA  Weiss Eva  b1932  Kinderheim

The list of the children from Kinderheim in Bergen-Belsen after the liberation. The list from the Children ward in Bergen-Belsen hospital by Dutch nurse Annie Bonsel shows the results of TBC vaccination. Annie Bonsel followed the children and arrived with them on the White Boat S/S Kastelholm to Malmö. Eva Weis is the forth name on the list. Bergen-Belsen Museum.

Code SHMA: BergenB  Weiss Eva  b1932  Kinderheim

White boat S/S Kastelholm was usually used by UNRRA to transport former inmates of the Beregen-Belsen concentration camp to the Frihamnen port in Stockholm. The trip lasted several days. S/S Kastelholm's first journey to Stockholm started on June 28, 1945, from Lübeck and the first White boat arrived to Stockholm on July 1st.

However, the transport logistics at the end of the UNRRA White Boat mission were not the best. According to the chief doctor at the UNRRA Transit Center and the Swedish Transit Hospital, Hans Arnoldsson, numerous persons were not suitable for the transport. They were dying. There was another group, fully healthy former inmates that were not fitting the aim of the mission.

The transport of children was by the White Boat S/S Kastelholm with code name Black ship. It started in Lübeck port on July 25, 1945 was a overnight trip to port of Malmö. It was the last trip of the S/S Kastelholm during the UNRRA-mission.

Among the patients that arrived on July 26, 1945, on the White Boat S/S Kastelholm to Sweden were two of Mengele´s twins with tattoos A-6026 and A-6027. They were just twelve years old when they came to their first concentration camp Auschwitz where they lost their mother (murdered) upon arrival. 

At the Lübeck Transit Hospital the sisters (now 15) were given Entry cards to Sweden with numbers L: 7798 and L: 7900. Also their DP-2 cards were issued there on the July 24th, 1945. Both cards include the information about theirs and their parents fate during the Holocaust. 

At the lower part of Eva Weiss DP-2 card (see photo above) there is information that they were taken in July 1944 to Auschwitz, thereafter there is information about Ravensbrück and Belsen. Here, the information about death transports/marches between the camps is missing. "Father soldier in Serbia" - most of the Jewish men in Hungary and Tjeckoslovakia were recruited to forced labor in the framework of the "labor battalions" of the Hungarian Army. Hungary was an ally of Nazi Germany, and its army fought alongside Germany.

Upon arrival in Malmö. Sweden, one of the girls, Eva, was in very bad conditions and was sent directly to the hospital in Landskrona while her sister, Vera, was to the orphanage for Jewish children. It was actually the first time since they arrived in the cattle wagon to Auschwitz they were apart.

After two years in Sweden, in 1947, the Weiss sisters decided to leave Sweden to go to Eretz Israel. They tried to get into British Mandate from France (picture) but their ship was caught by the British and both girls (now 17) were imprisoned in the detention camp on Cyprus. Code SHMA: PhotoA  Weiss Eva  b1932  Kinderheim

After two years in Sweden, in 1947, the Weiss sisters decided to leave Sweden to go to Eretz Israel. They tried to get into the British Mandate from France but their ship was caught by British and both girls (now 17) were imprisoned in the detention camp in Cyprus.

Now, in 2021, they are both living in Israel and have direct contact with the Swedish Holocaust Memorial Association.

They both married (in 1950) Holocaust survivors and created new families in Israel, and together they have 20 children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren.

Sister of Eva Weiss - Vera was twice at Israeli TV. Pictures in red dress are from Yom Hashoah 2021. 
Code SHMA: PhotoD  Weiss Eva  b1932  Kinderheim.