On October 7, the terrorist organization Hamas launched a massacre on civilians in Israel which led to more than 1200 murdered and close to two hundred Israelis taken hostage. The attack is the single largest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust and behind every number there is a human being – a child, a… READ MORE
Dear Friends, I am writing you with profound sorrow. The murderous attack that occurred in Israel was an act of antisemitism in its most depraved form by a genocidal regime in Gaza, sponsored by Iran, a country that repeatedly calls for the destruction of Israel. There can be no moral equivalence. “From the river… READ MORE
Did you miss the IHRS and The Norwegian Center for Holocaust and Minority Studies (HL-senteret), Norway, conference Contextualizing the Holocaust in the Nordic Countries in Stockholm on August 22, 2023? You can listen to the paper presentations, the keynote given by associate professor Sofie Lene Bak, and the panel discussion on “The future for… READ MORE
The Institute for Holocaust research in Sweden (IHRS) and The Norwegian Center for Holocaust and Minority Studies (HL-senteret), Norway, are glad to announce that the response to our call for papers were great and we are therefore able to present an interesting and rich progamme at our annual conference. The theme of this years… READ MORE
The Institute for Holocaust research in Sweden (IHRS) and The Norwegian Center for Holocaust and Minority Studies (HL-senteret), Norway, cordially invites you to the conference Contextualizing the Holocaust in the Nordic Countries. The conference is a collaboration between IHRS and HL-senteret and will be held at Historiska Museet in Stockholm on August 22, 2023.… READ MORE
On December 9, 2022, Fredrik Stenhjem Hagen defended his dissertation on Holocaust Education in Norway at Høgskulen på Vestlandet. The Director of IHRS, Associate Professor Karin Kvist Geverts was invited to participate in the evaluation committee, and as an opponent, along with historian Associate Professor Anders Granås Kjøstvedt of Oslo Metropolitan University. The committee… READ MORE
On November 8, the IHRS was a co-partner in organizing the Annual Seminar of the Swedish Committee Against Antisemitism (SCAA). The theme for the Annual Seminar 2022 was Holocaust Distortion. Professor Jan Grabowski of University of Ottawa and Dr. Juliane Wetzel from Zentrum für Antisemitismus Forschung at Technische Universität Berlin lectured on Holocaust distortion… READ MORE
On October 1st, the Institutet för studier i Malmös historia, ABF Malmö, Malmös kämpande historia and IHRS arranged a memorial on the rescue of the Danish jews in October of 1943. Karin Kvist Geverts lectured on “The Rescue of the Danish jews in October 1943” and Sara Glaser gave a speech in which she… READ MORE
IHRS participated in a Nordic workshop on antisemitism and conspiracy theories at Institut Judaicum Aboense at Åbo University on September 19. The purpose of the workshop was to gather scholars from Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland to discuss a common application on antisemitism and conspiracy theories. The workshop is a collaboration between IHRS, Uppsala… READ MORE
On August 8-11th, the 30th Congress of Nordic Historians takes place at Gothenburg University. The theme of the Conference is “Global and local”. See the full programme here. The IHRS leads two panels under the heading Antisemitism in the Nordic countries: Regional expressions of global patterns of thought. Both panels will take place on… READ MORE
