EVACUATION OF GERMAN CONCENTRATION CAMPS INMATES TO SWEDEN - A Polish woman, survivor from the Bergen-Belsen camp, lying in bed aboard ship. The Swedish government agreed to allow 10 000 ex-inmates of Belsen, Buchenwald and other German concentration camps to travel to Sweden and stay there for a period of six months recuperation. Meanwhile UNRRA would try to arrange return to their home arrived from Belsen at the Cambrai Barracks at Lubeck, Germany, which used to house German soldiers and then became the Swedish Transit Hospital. Here they were desinfected and prepared for the
EVACUATION OF GERMAN CONCENTRATION CAMPS INMATES TO SWEDEN - A Polish woman, survivor from the Bergen-Belsen camp, lying in bed aboard ship. The Swedish government agreed to allow 10 000 ex-inmates of Belsen, Buchenwald and other German concentration camps to travel to Sweden and stay there for a period of six months recuperation. Meanwhile UNRRA would try to arrange return to their home arrived from Belsen at the Cambrai Barracks at Lubeck, Germany, which used to house German soldiers and then became the Swedish Transit Hospital. Here they were desinfected and prepared for the journey to Sweden by members of the Swedish Red Cross. After a day or two here they were taken to Lubeck docks in RAMC ambulances and put aboard a Swedish hospital ship and taken to Sweden Red Cross, United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
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