The Jewish camp command independently co-ordinated the move. Several commanders expressed the wish to take the German camp pesonnel with them to the new quarters. Although this wish was not fulfilled it is evidence of the gradual growth of trust that had developed for the German camp personnel. Another advance group made preparations for the arrival of the refugees in East Fresia.
From 2nd to 5th November 1947, the inhabitants of P÷ppendorf camp were taken by lorry to Bad Schwartau station. From here 2,342 people were taken by trains to former military barracks in Emden. Several days later the inhabitants of the Am Stau camp moved to former navy barracks in Sengwarden.
Shortly before the re-quartering of the Pöppendorf camp inhabitants the artist Aberhard Schrammen (1886-1947), living in Bad Schwartau, was commissioned to photograph the Jewish refugee children before their departure. The British camp command hoped that these photographs would enable them to make good the previous unsucessful attempt at identification of Hungarian children in the camps. The former Bauhaus student (German school of architecture and applied arts founded in 1919 by Walter Gropius on experimental principles of functionalism and truth to materials. Closed by the Nazis in 1933), employed from the 1930s onward as a press photographer, travelled daily, in the first weeks of November, to the Pöppendorf camp, to photograph the children. The following four photographs are examples of his work. The photographs were never collected and the Schrammen family did not receive the promised food. Eberhard Schrammen died shortly thereafter. The photographs were forgotten until his son Klaus Schrammen discovered them some years ago.
