On this day in 1945, the last of the so-called White Buses transported rescued political prisoners to Malmö in Sweden. From the History Research Guide:
White Buses was a humanitarian effort headed by the Swedish count Folke Bernadotte that by the end of the Second World War saved thousands of Norwegian and Danish resistance fighters from German concentration camps. The name comes from the buses that were used, and that were painted white, with a red cross on the sides and on their roof.
In September 2007, a monument was raised in Malmö as a memorial to the survivors and those who saved them. About an hour ago, I snapped a few pictures of this memorial. When a stood in the square surrounding the monument, I tried to imagine what it looked like sixty-three years ago when newly liberated prisoners from the Nazi concentration camps arrived in the hundreds.
I publish some of the pictures below.
Seen below is the back of the monument. In the Swedish text, survivors and their relatives thank Folke Bernadotte and the Swedish Red Cross.
