Refugee crises · TURNING POINT ·
White Buses (1945)
On the Refugee crises map as “The White Buses reach Malmö”
Mar–May 1945 — Swedish Red Cross buses organised by Count Folke Bernadotte carry about 15,000 concentration-camp prisoners to Sweden, Scandinavians first and then women from Ravensbrück; ships bring thousands more survivors that summer. A neutral state became one of Europe’s first places of asylum.
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- Turning point
- Chapter
- Refugee crisis in Europe after WW2 (chapter 1 of Refugee crises)
- Atlas
- Uprooted: Refugees in Europe 1945–1960 and Indochina 1975–1990
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