Swedish rescue operations during the Second World War: accomplishments and aftermath
TitelSwedish rescue operations during the Second World War: accomplishments and aftermath
Forfatter
Call number940.5318/0413
Objektnummer08704i
UdgivelsesstedFarnham, Surrey, England
UdgiverAshgate
Udgivelsesår
2013
Pagineringpp165-185
MaterialeArticle
ISBN9781409451082
NoterArticle from 'The Holocaust as active memory: the past and present' pp 165-185
Beskrivelse
Focuses on the 3 major humanitarian operations in which Swedes were involved during WWII; the Red Cross mission in Greece, Raoul Wallenberg's and other Swedes efforts to save the Jews of Budapest and Folke Bernadotte's White Bus operation in 1945. He also looks at the first Swedish reactions when they were confronted by former concentration camp prisoners and the changing attitude to Wallenberg and Folke Bernadotte.