On July 26, 1945, the first arrived. Most of the women were Polish Jews who were evacuated from the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.
The women arrived by train to Vasagatan in Karlstad and some of them were so sick that they had to go ambulance to the school, which is a few hundred meters from the train rail.
Visit at the Mosaic Cemetery in Karlstad
Most women in the end, but 16 women died at Herrhagsskolan and are now buried at the Mosaic cemetery in Karlstad.
Soon 80 years later, grades are now being a year of six-students at Herrhagsskolan on the fate of women. SVT had to accompany the students when they made a trip to the cemetery, where several of the women they researched are buried.
– It really felt really when you saw the grave where the woman we research about low, says twelve -year -old Arvid Kraft.