ABSTRACT
The organisation and shipments of parcels are the focus of this chapter – from the first creation of name lists based on incoming post to the actual shipments of clothes and vitamins, and, from February 1944, food. As long as a formal permit to ship food was missing, the Danish Red Cross (DRK) would not be involved, and the shipments were made by a private network, the Fund of 1944, in close cooperation with the Ministry of Social Affairs. Only from September 1944 did DRK begin to ship food to Theresienstadt.
From 1941, a group of Jewish refugees had sent food to friends and relatives in Germany, and later to camps and ghettos, including Theresienstadt. When the Fund of 1944 began to ship food to the Danes, a number of these parcel receivers from other countries were included on their lists.
The number of parcels that were actually received by the Danes and how “wealthy” they were in terms of food are also discussed here.
