Jews in Sweden, 1945

Source: here.

Mr. Philip Jurgens had sent us the link to two photographs of Jewish refugees playing chess after the war. The second photo - obviously photographed in the same room with some of the same people - is here. Both are found in the digital collection of the Kalmar läns museum. 

Mr. Jurgens' translation of the text in the links tells us about the harrowing situation of the refugees who arrived in Kalmar:

The ship Prins Carl came to Kalmar three times in the summer of 1945 with prisoners from a British interim camp in Lübeck. The former prisoners, most of them Polish Jews and resistance fighters, were housed at Söderportskolan. Those who were deemed to have typhus or TB were accommodated at the Epidemic Hospital on Lindö. Since it was the most seriously ill who came to Kalmar - one woman weighed only 28 kg on arrival, two months after the end of the war - about fifty died. Two were dead on arrival in Kalmar, the rest died during their stay here. These are buried in two common graves. The Jews were laid to rest in the Jewish cemetery in Kalmar, while the Christians, mostly Polish resistance fighters, are buried in the Northern Cemetery. Most of those who survived the hospitalization left Sweden in 1946. Some went to the USA, some returned home. A few remained in Sweden. The dead are commemorated by memorial monuments; one in the Northern Cemetery, one in the Mosaic Cemetery. Some of the survivors have become involved in the fight against Nazism, spreading testimony about the atrocity.