S14UM Kulturhistoriska samlingen

The collection includes several items relating to the Holocaust. Among these is a writing pad (item number: UM032489) kept as a memory of the patients treated at the Margaretegärdeskolan emergency hospital in Uddevalla in the summer of 1945. In the spring and summer of 1945, the school was transformed into an emergency hospital for survivors of Nazi Germany's concentration camps. The white buses arrived in Malmö, and from there, the new arrivals were dispatched to different parts of the country. Two hundred survivors came to Uddevalla, where the Margretegärdeskolan was emptied of students and desks, and the classrooms were rebuilt with screens so that one classroom became several smaller rooms, temporarily converted into hospital rooms. The donor's mother, Margareta Carlsson (1908-1964), worked there as an assistant. The donor has noted: "Names of concentration camp prisoners who came to Uddevalla in the summer of 1945. My mother worked as an assistant at the emergency hospital, which was located in the Margaretegärdeskolan. They probably came with the white buses." The notebook also includes UM032488 Tablecloth and a collection of black and white photographs of staff and patients outside Margaretsgärdesskolan, UMFA55586. The donor says his mother kept in touch with several patients for many years. One of the women, born in Poland, married and started a family in Uddevalla.