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Language of Description: Danish
Language of Description: English
Language of Description: Multiple
Holding Institution: Nordiska museet

  1. I Förintelsens närhet 2000

    • In the midst of the Holocaust 2000

    The collection contains interviews with two women about their upbringing and experiences during World War II in Poland and in Auschwitz during the winter of 1941/42, and about life in Sweden after the end of the war. Transcripts of the interviews, photographs, and maps of the places mentioned in the interviews are also included in the collection.

  2. Judiska minnen

    • Jewish memories
    • Nordiska museet
    • Judiska minnen
    • English
    • 1994-1998
    • More than 400 life stories and interviews on cassette tapes and videos, photographs and original documents. The documents include diaries and collections of letters, and approximately 1,600 photographs.

    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.

  3. Ruth Jacobssons arkiv

    • Ruth Jacobsson's archive
    • Nordiska museet
    • Ruth Jacobssons arkiv
    • English
    • 1930-2006
    • Textual records.

    The collection contains concert pianist Ruth Jacobsson's (1912-1947) memoirs, 'Mein Leben', including her and her daughter's time in concentration camps.

  4. Halina Neujahrs arkiv

    • Archive of Halina Neujahr

    The archive primarily contains documents relating Halina Neujahr's own experiences from the Warsaw ghetto and her time in Sweden in the form of lectures and newspaper articles, as well as the documentary film In Memoriam with Halina Neujahr, in which she talks about her life in the Warsaw ghetto and her transfer to a concentration camp. Centralfilm produced the documentary for the Association of Holocaust Survivors. The archive also contains newspaper articles, audio tapes, videotapes, and photographs from Neujahr's early days in Sweden.