Experience: Swedish Red Cross

“The Swedish government also initiated an operation to rescue Hungarian Jewry. In 1944 Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg was sent to Budapest to save Jews on their way to deportation. He and his staff, along with the Swedish Red Cross, rescued thousands of Hungarian Jews.”

Yad Vashem. Shoah Resource Center. “Sweden.”
http://www1.yadvashem.org/odot_pdf/Microsoft%20Word%20-%206061.pdf

Accessed on 6/11/11.

Hassleholm, Sweden, Swedish Red Cross rescuers before their departure for Germany, postwar

Yad Vashem. Photo Archives.
http://collections.yadvashem.org/photosarchive/en-us/15946.html

Accessed on 6/11/11.

Hofgeismar, Germany, Swedish Red Cross representatives in a DP camp.

Yad Vashem. Photo Archives.

http://collections.yadvashem.org/photosarchive/en-us/77278.html

Accessed on 6/11/11.

Budapest, Hungary, 1944, A Swedish Red Cross food storeroom.

Yad Vashem. Photo Archives.
http://collections.yadvashem.org/photosarchive/en-us/50334.html

Accessed on 6/11/11.

Count Bernadotte Folke, Deputy President of the Swedish Red Cross (on the right), inspecting the transfer of survivors from camp Ravensbrueck to Sweden, April 1945

Yad Vashem. Photo Archives.
http://collections.yadvashem.org/photosarchive/en-us/1191_2893.html

Accessed on 6/11/11.

Mirel Rottersman

“The Swedish government also initiated an operation to rescue Hungarian Jewry. In 1944 Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg was sent to Budapest to save Jews on their way to deportation. He and his staff, along with the Swedish Red Cross, rescued thousands of Hungarian Jews.”

Yad Vashem. Shoah Resource Center. “Sweden.”
http://www1.yadvashem.org/odot_pdf/Microsoft%20Word%20-%206061.pdf

Accessed on 6/11/11.

Hassleholm, Sweden, Swedish Red Cross rescuers before their departure for Germany, postwar

Yad Vashem. Photo Archives.
http://collections.yadvashem.org/photosarchive/en-us/15946.html

Accessed on 6/11/11.

Hofgeismar, Germany, Swedish Red Cross representatives in a DP camp.

Yad Vashem. Photo Archives.

http://collections.yadvashem.org/photosarchive/en-us/77278.html

Accessed on 6/11/11.

Budapest, Hungary, 1944, A Swedish Red Cross food storeroom.

Yad Vashem. Photo Archives.
http://collections.yadvashem.org/photosarchive/en-us/50334.html

Accessed on 6/11/11.

Count Bernadotte Folke, Deputy President of the Swedish Red Cross (on the right), inspecting the transfer of survivors from camp Ravensbrueck to Sweden, April 1945

Yad Vashem. Photo Archives.
http://collections.yadvashem.org/photosarchive/en-us/1191_2893.html

Accessed on 6/11/11.