Dutchwoman Anika Bremell studied in Paris.
There she later became active in the French Resistance. Under the alias of Agent P2
she saved Allied pilots who had been shot down.

In February 1944 she was arrested by the Gestapo,
who had found false identity documents
she had hidden in her hotel room.

A red triangle with an N was the badge
that Agent P2 had to sew onto her blouse
when she arrived at Ravensbrück in 1944.
N stood for the Netherlands and the triangle indicated that she was a political prisoner.

The concentration camp was hell on earth.
Anika shut down her emotions to survive.
Then she heard that they might be able
to come to Sweden.
“I walked around and whispered to myself:
Forests and lakes. Forests and lakes.
It became like a mantra for me.”
Rescue arrived in April 1945.

 The journey to Sweden almost cost Anika her life.
Airplanes attacked the White Buses convoy
and a number of people died in the attack.

Anika slept her first night in freedom in Malmö Museum. When she woke up the first thing she saw
was a stuffed gorilla.
At first she did not understand where she was
but she was happy.

Anika stayed in Sweden,
had a family and worked as an interpreter.
In 1947 she witnessed against the Ravensbrück concentration camp guards.
They were sentenced to death for war crimes.

All her life she talked about her experiences,
in schools, to associations, on radio and television,
to the Swedish government and Riksdag.
Always so that we must not forget.