31 Ukrainian children in nearby Rygge during World War II

At Rygge Museum, in an old farm building called a stabbur, is the local museum for the history of World War Two. The collection is quite impressive for such a small local museum.


I knew already that during the Second World War the Germans tried to build a military airport in Rygge, moving the local civilian population, cutting down the trees in the forest etc. It was called Lille Rygge (Little Rygge).



In the museum I saw the following sign:


The Russian Camp near Lille Rygge
For building the airport in the fields of roer, the (German) occupiers needed many workers for the project.
They solved this by using forced laborers, and these were mostly Ukrainian civilians.
Just to the east of Lille Rygge a camp was built for these.
282 persons were interned there - 190 men, 61 women and 31 children.
The Red Cross took over the camp on May 21st 1945 and till the end of that year the camp had been closed.


What happened to these civilians?
They were probably sent back to the Soviet Union, and one wonders what happened to them there.
Who were the 31 children?
Are there Ukrainians alive, now in their sixties and seventies, who spent their childhood in Rygge?