Conference 2023 Panel discussion

Professor Ulf Zander, Dr. Terje Emberland, Dr. Sofie Lene Bak and Dr. Oula Silvennoinen

IHRS and HL-senteret Conference 2023. Listen to the Panel discussion on The future for Holocaust Research in the Nordic countries: What´s next? Introduction by Professor Ulf Zander (Sweden). Panelists: Dr. Terje Emberland (Norway), Dr. Sofie Lene Bak (Denmark), Dr. Oula Silvennoinen (Finland). Moderator: Karin Kvist Geverts. Production: Kulturmolnet.

Conference 2023 Session 3 Testimonies

Ph.D-candidate Victoria Van Orden Martinez, Dr. Bjarte Bruland and Dr. Henrik Rosengren

IHRS and HL-senteret Conference 2023. In the third session on Testimonies you will hear paper presentations by Ph.D-candidate Victoria Van Orden Martinez: Beyond Flight and Rescue – Contextualizing the Holocaust through Survivors’ Ongoing Survival (begins 1:08), Dr. Bjarte Bruland: About Adolf Folkman’s account published in Sweden by Stefan Szende (Den siste juden från Polen) (begins 16:48), and Dr. Henrik Rosengren: Musical Testimonies and Holocaust Memory (begins 33:18). Production: Kulturmolnet.

Conference 2023 Session 2 Perpetrators

Dr. Claus Bundgård Christensen, Dr. Oula Silvennoinen, Dr. Øystein Hetland and Dr. Bjørg Eva Aasen

IHRS and HL-senteret Conference 2023. In the second session on Perpetrators you will hear paper presentations by Dr. Claus Bundgård Christensen: Antisemitism and radicalization: Danish perpetrators in October 1943 (begins 00:40), Dr. Oula Silvennoinen: The Periphery of a Genocide: Finland and the Holocaust (begins 17:10), Dr. Øystein Hetland: Letting perpetrators off the hook? The role of the Holocaust during the legal purge of police officers in postwar Norway (begins 33:52), and Dr. Bjørg Eva Aasen: The Norwegian State Railway. A machinery of destruction for the Norwegian Jews (begins at 50:25). Production: Kulturmolnet.

Conference 2023 Session 1 Survivors

Dr. Silvia Goldbaum Tarabini, Dr. Dóra Pataricza & Dr. Kata Bohus

IHRS and HL-senteret Conference 2023. In the first session on Survivors you will hear paper presentations by Dr. Silvia Goldbaum Tarabini: "From my stay in the camp I can mainly tell the following...". Survivor testimonies collected by the World Jewish Congress in Sweden, April-May 1945 (begins at 1:11), Dr. Dóra Pataricza & Dr. Kata Bohus: Hungarian Jewish Survivors in Sweden: A Study of Their Experiences and Integration (begins at 17:14). Production: Kulturmolnet.

Conference 2023 Introduction and Keynote

Associate Professor Sofie Lene Bak

IHRS and HL-senteret Conference 2023. This video shows the Introduction by Director Karin Kvist Geverts and Director Guri Hjeltnes, and the Keynote Lecture by Associate Professor Sofie Lene Bak, Copenhagen University, called Contextualizing October -43. Temporality, Methodology and Historicising (begins at 10:30). Production: Kulturmolnet.

Book talk: Night without End (7/11)

Professor Jan Grabowski

See the book talk on November 7th at 2-4PM with Professor Jan Grabowski on "Night without End" which recently came out in English. Moderator: Karin Kvist Geverts. Venue: The Auditorium at Statens Historiska Museum, Narvavägen 13-17. Professor Grabowski talked about the book "Night without End. The Fate of Jews in German-occupied Poland" (originally published in Polish as Dalej jest noc) and gave an overview of the results. He talked about what such detailed studies can tell when it comes to reconstructing the daily reality of the genocide and discuss how local perspectives can contribute to historiography and our understanding of the Holocaust. Jan Grabowski is a Professor of History at the University of Ottawa and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. Karin Kvist Geverts is an Associate Professor of History and the Director of the IHRS. The book talk was filmed and arranged in co-operation with Jewish Culture in Sweden.