Swedish Red Cross: Ravensbruck Concentration Camp

The Exodus Dept: The opening scene shows old footage of a girl looking into the camera. It s my wife, Fredzia, who together with her mother was taken out of Ravensbruck concentration camp in April 1945 and brought to safety in one of the famous white buses of the Swedish Red Cross, according to The Star. In the course of the more than 3,000 years since the Exodus, Jews have endured many Egypts, mostly in Europe. A passage in the Haggadah the compendium that s traditionally read at the Seder, the meal that inaugurates the festival reminds celebrants that in every generation there re those who want to destroy us. Participants should, therefore, always see themselves as if they themselves had been redeemed from bondage and harbour of Hope is a new documentary by the Swedish filmmaker Magnus Gertten. It describes how, in the last days of World War II, his country rescued thousands of inmates from Nazi concentration camps. We saw the film together with our children and grandchildren during Passover, the week-long festival we celebrated earlier this month in commemoration of the biblical Exodus from Egypt. The film was our personal version of the perennial Jewish track from slavery to freedom that Passover commemorates. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.