Swedish rescue operations during the Second World War: accomplishments and aftermath
[nb-NO]Title[nb-NO]Swedish rescue operations during the Second World War: accomplishments and aftermath
[nb-NO]Author[nb-NO]
Call number940.5318/0413
[nb-NO]Object number[nb-NO]08704i
[nb-NO]Place of publication[nb-NO]Farnham, Surrey, England
[nb-NO]Publisher[nb-NO]Ashgate
[nb-NO]Year of publication[nb-NO]
2013
[nb-NO]Pagination[nb-NO]pp165-185
[nb-NO]Material[nb-NO]Article
[nb-NO]ISBN[nb-NO]9781409451082
NotesArticle from 'The Holocaust as active memory: the past and present' pp 165-185
[nb-NO]Description[nb-NO]
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.