Kommittén for levande historia

  • YK 5252
Identifier
Kommittén for levande historia
Language of Description
English
Languages
  • Swedish
Scripts
  • Latin
Source
EHRI

Extent and Medium

40 archive volumes, and includes 94 video and audio tapes of interviews conducted as part of the Committee's documentation project.

Scope and Content

The archive of the state expert commission includes documentation of the committee's work as well as the material collected and produced by the commission in 2001.

One of the main principles that guided the collection was that it would have a Swedish perspective. Thus, interviews were not primarily made with Holocaust survivors, but with others, who in one way or another, came in to contact with the Holocaust, like medical staff, the drivers of the White Buses, and refugees who arrived in Sweden before and during the war. Nevertheless, nearly 100 interviews with Holocaust survivors were also made as a special project within the frames of the committee's work.

Finding Aids

Sources

  • The National Archives' database, NAD: https://sok.riksarkivet.se/arkiv/V9uGBbkjrn61u03Gjpu0Y3

    Jåma, Sharon & Haider, Charlotte (eds.) De glömmer det aldrig: ur Forum för levande historias minnesarkiv. Stockholm: Forum för levande historia, 2003.

    Thor Tureby, Malin, and Kristin Wagrell. Vittnesmål från Förintelsen och de överlevandes berättelser. Definitioner, insamlingar och användningar, 1939-2020. Stockholm: Forum för levande historia, 2020.

Rules and Conventions

EHRI Guidelines for Description v.1.0