Swedish Red Cross
The Swedish Red Cross is a non-profit organization founded in 1865. Today, we are Sweden’s largest humanitarian volunteer organization, with 23,000 volunteers in over 300 local branches.
At the Red Cross, we are present across Sweden to help people in vulnerable situations. We provide support and security when crises strike, distribute food and clothing when funds are scarce, and offer assistance with homework help, community meeting places, and locating missing relatives.
The Red Cross and Red Crescent also operate in 190 other countries worldwide. Every day, we help people affected by disasters and war, often in places few others can reach. We save lives in the toughest situations but also work to prevent crises. We are a neutral, independent, and impartial humanitarian movement with millions of volunteers ensuring that aid reaches those who need it most. We are first on the scene and always stay until the job is done.
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The White Buses group
Within the Malmö branch of the Swedish Red Cross, the White Buses group operates. We work to spread knowledge about the Red Cross expedition to Germany in 1945. This includes giving lectures and answering questions from relatives searching for those who either participated in or traveled to Sweden on the White Buses.
The White Buses group also collaborates with Malmö Museums and Malmö City Archives and maintains good contacts with Lund University Library, Kulturen in Lund, as well as institutions in Denmark, Norway, and the USA, former concentration camp prisoners, and private individuals in France, the Netherlands, and Germany. The work is based on a voluntary basis.
Would you like to get in touch with the White Buses group? malmo@redcross.se
History
The White Buses group originated when the Swedish Red Cross established the House of Humanity (Humanitetens Hus) in 2005 at Drottningtorget in Malmö. At that time, a national White Buses chapter was formed, based in Malmö, with the goal of “creating respect for human dignity and promoting mutual understanding based on the White Buses operation of 1945.” Much of the work was conducted at the House of Humanity, where exhibitions, lectures, study circles, and guided tours were organized.
In 2010, the Swedish Red Cross closed the House of Humanity, but the White Buses chapter chose to continue its work. Three years later, the Swedish Red Cross underwent a reorganization, and the White Buses chapter became a group within the Malmö branch of the Swedish Red Cross.
Between 2016 and 2019, the group ran the project “With the White Buses into the Future,” which among other outcomes, resulted in the gathering of information for this website. During 2025 the website was launched in cooperation with the Swedish Holocaust Museum and The Swedish Red Cross.