Die Fotos der Horserød-Freizeiten für jüdische Kinder 1934 und 1935
© United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (Wollheim-Nachlass)
Norbert Wollheim berichtet über die Freizeiten jüdischer Kinder in Horserød, Dänemark, und in Schweden, die er in den Sommern 1933–1935 begleitete:
“For instance, the Jewish community at this time had developed a program which was interesting. Since we couldn’t have Jewish summer camps any more in Germany, the man who was my youth leader at that certain time was very active and innovative, had established contact with Sweden and Denmark and had asked the Jewish communities there to accommodate Jewish children from Germany during the summer, and they responded favorably. In Denmark, for instance, they had established special summer camps near Copenhagen where they took hundreds of Jewish children from Germany to spend the summer there, which was very pleasant and in Sweden interesting enough, the Jewish community in Malmö and Stockholm organized a program taking Jewish children into Jewish families during the summer and I was able to accompany these transports, so I had a first... I got a first experience how to handle these kind of transports and then certainly when we went to Sweden and Denmark, we also certainly got familiar with the families and with the organizations, so we thought that somehow would be helpful if need be.”[1]
Von den Freizeiten der Sommer 1934 und 1935 sind in Norbert Wollheims Nachlass Fotos überliefert, die er selbst aufgenommen hat. Auf einigen dieser Fotos sind ein Junge, Jürgen Löwenstein, und ein Begleiter, Arthur Posnanski, zu sehen, die beide wie Wollheim später im KZ Buna/Monowitz inhaftiert waren und für I.G. Farben Zwangsarbeit leisten mussten.
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