Judiska minnen

  • Jewish memories
Identifier
Judiska minnen
Language of Description
English
Dates
1994 - 1998
Level of Description
Collection
Languages
  • Swedish
Scripts
  • Latin
Source
EHRI

Biographical History

The Jewish memories project ran from 1994-1998 at the Nordiska museet and resulted in a rich and comprehensive collection of Jewish life in the 20th century.

Archival History

The collection was conducted in 1994--1998 as a project at Nordiska museet during and after the Second World War. The collection also includes material from the sub-projects Jewish Service and Nursing Home, Second Generation, Café 84, and the Senior Project.

Scope and Content

The collection consists of over 400 life stories and interviews on cassette tapes and videos, photographs and original documents. The documents include diaries and collections of letters; the approximately 1,600 photographs come from the participants' own family albums. Some of the material depicts Jewish life in various villages and cities in Europe, cultures that were completely wiped out during the Holocaust.

Conditions Governing Access

The transcribed memories are available for research but subject to the permission of the Archives Director.

Finding Aids

  • An index with anonymized summaries of the memories is available in the research office.

Sources

  • Johansson, Britta (ed.) Judiska Minnen: Berättelser Från Förintelsen. Stockholm: Nordiska museet, 2000.

    Nylund Skog, Susanne. Livets vägar. Svenska judinnors berättelser om förskingring, förintelse, förtryck och frihet. Uppsala, 2012.

    SOU 2020. Sveriges museum om Förintelsen. Betänkande av Utredningen om ett museum om Förintelsen. Stockholm: Regeringskansliet, 2020: 21, p. 267.

    Thor Tureby, Malin. ‘Svenskjudiska liv. Levnadsberättelser i skuggan av förintelsen’. Svenska landsmål och svenskt folkliv. Tidskrift för talspråksforskning, folkloristik och kulturhistoria 141 (2018) (2019): 117–45.

    Thor Tureby, Malin & Wagrell, Kristin. 2020. Vittnesmål från Förintelsen och de överlevandes berättelser. Definitioner, insamlingar och användningar, 1939–2020. Stockholm: Forum för levande historia, pp. 41–42.

Rules and Conventions

EHRI Guidelines for Description v.1.0