Swedish Red Cross White Bus Rescue 
Manya Friedman – Gift #5 from Sosnowiec, Poland
Gift #5 - Manya Friedman
Manya Friedman grew up very close to the German border in a small town called Sosnowiec.
When Germany invaded Poland in 1939, Manya’s parents met with their close friends “to decide...
Swedish Red Cross White Bus Rescue
Nelly Langholm – Gift #3 from Norway
Gift #3 Nelly Langholm
Ships and marine life provide bookends to important chapters in Nelly Langholm’s life, surrounding years of horror. Arrested in Norway in 1942, she was a prisoner on board the ship Monte...
Swedish Red Cross White Bus Rescue
Bernhard Kempler – Gift#2 from Krakow, Poland
Gift #2 - Bernhard Kempler
“Resilience is the capacity to find new and creative ways to assert life despite great trauma and obstacles.”
Born in 1936 in Krakow, Poland, Bernhard was only three years old when...
Swedish Red Cross White Bus Rescue
Anita Kempler Lobel – Gift #1 from Krakow, Poland
“My life has been good. I want more. Mine is only another story.” Anita Kempler Lobel (p. 190) Young Anita Kempler lived in Krakow, Poland with her parents and younger brother.
When the war came in...
Swedish Red Cross White Bus Rescue
Red Cross White Bus Rescue – 10 Gifts
*Roger A. Ritvo, Ph.D. is Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Auburn University Montgomery and Lecturer at the Business School University of Colorado Denver. Allison Stone is a Clinical Research Coordinator at the Children’s Hospital of...