The Last Evacuees
On April 28 Captain Ankarcrona led a column from the International Red Cross to the camp at Neu-Brandenburg. The transport passed advancing Soviet forces, collected 200 female prisoners and returned to Lübeck. Franz Göring, a Gestapo officer, organized a train from Hamburg which carried about 2000 women (960 Jews, 790 Poles and 250 French); this train arrived in Padborg on May 2. It is not counted in the Swedish Red Cross overview of rescued prisoners, but it seems appropriate to mention this transport in connection with the "white buses".
On April 30 the two Swedish ships Magdalena and Lillie Matthiessen sailed from Lübeck, the former with 223 female prisoners, the latter with 225. The transport had been organised by the Swedish doctor Hans Arnoldsson with the assistance of Bjørn Heger. They had to leave behind thousands of prisoners on several other ships that were bombed on May 3 by British planes, (the Cap Arcona disaster). The last group of female prisoners travelled from Copenhagen to Malmö by ferry on May 4.
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