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2 unusual facts about White Buses


White Buses

A total of 211 prisoners were collected from some 20 establishments, among them Dresden, Cottbus, Luckay, Zeithin, Groitsch and Waldheim (east of Dresden).

A number of Norwegians were immediately arrested, two months later the occupying force established the first prisoners' camp at Ulven outside Bergen.



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Della Gould Emmons

Later he toured the Midwest in a fleet of white buses with his nine performing children, "Jay Gould's Million Dollar Circus." Documents also show that he gave Lawrence Welk of TV fame one of his first jobs as an accordion player.

Jewish deportees from Norway during World War II

On March 1, fellow Norwegian but non-Jewish students had been sent by train from Buchenwald to Neuengamme as part of the White Buses operation, but these five were not allowed to leave on account of being Jewish.