Early Holocaust Memory in Sweden: Archives, Testimonies and Reflections

✍ Scribed by Johannes Heuman, Pontus Rudberg

Publisher: Springer International Publishing;Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2021
Tongue: English
Leaves: 336
Series: The Holocaust and its Contexts
Edition: 1st ed.
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This book investigates the memory of the Holocaust in Sweden and concentrates on early initiatives to document and disseminate information about the genocide during the late 1940s until the early 1960s. As the first collection of testimonies and efforts to acknowledge the Holocaust contributed to historical research, judicial processes, public discussion, and commemorations in the universalistic Swedish welfare state, the chapters analyse how and in what ways the memory of the Holocaust began to take shape, showing the challenges and opportunities that were faced in addressing the traumatic experiences of a minority. In Sweden, the Jewish trauma could be linked to positive rescue actions instead of disturbing politics of collaboration, suggesting that the Holocaust memory was less controversial than in several European nations following the war. This book seeks to understand how and in what ways the memory of the Holocaust began to take shape in the developing Swedish welfare state and emphasises the role of transnational Jewish networks for the developing Holocaust memory in Sweden.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-xiii
Holocaust Memory in Sweden: A Re-evaluation (Johannes Heuman, Pontus Rudberg)....Pages 1-31
In Search of Documentation: Nella Rost and the Jewish Historical Commission in Stockholm (Johannes Heuman)....Pages 33-65
Witnessing the Holocaust: Jewish Experiences and the Collection of the Polish Source Institute in Lund (Izabela A. Dahl)....Pages 67-91
Holocaust Testimonies in Jewish Compensation Claims in the United Restitution Organisation’s Archive in Stockholm (Pontus Rudberg)....Pages 93-117
‘The Greatest Pogrom in World History’: Hugo Valentin and the Holocaust (Olof Bortz)....Pages 119-138
Tracing the Holocaust in Early Writings in Post-War Sweden (Karin Kvist Geverts)....Pages 139-161
‘A Hellish Nightmare’: The Swedish Press and the Construction of Early Holocaust Narratives, 1945–1950 (Antero Holmila)....Pages 163-187
Jews, Gender, and the Scandinavian Subject: Understanding the Context and Content of the Film Vittnesbördet [The Testimony] (Kristin Wagrell)....Pages 189-219
Dire Strait? When the Holocaust Came to Sweden—A Regional Perspective 1943–1945 (Ulf Zander)....Pages 221-247
The Holocaust and the Jewish Survivors in the Swedish-Jewish Press, 1945–1955 (Malin Thor Tureby)....Pages 249-285
Recognition, Justice, and Memory: Swedish-Jewish Reactions to the Holocaust and the Major Trials (Julia Sahlström)....Pages 287-313
Early Memorialisation of the Holocaust: American and Scandinavian Perspectives (Hasia R. Diner)....Pages 315-321
Back Matter ....Pages 323-334

✦ Subjects

History; History of World War II and the Holocaust; History of Modern Europe; Memory Studies; Cultural History; History of Religion

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