New Generation Thinkers: Sweden and the Holocaust
Historian Daniel Lee visits the Swedish Holocaust Museum in Stockholm, ahead of the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.
Historian Daniel Lee visits the Swedish Holocaust Museum in Stockholm, ahead of the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.
He speaks to the museum staff, who have been collecting and preserving the little known stories of hundreds of Jewish people who came to Sweden after 1943. And learns about the Swedes who volunteered to provide aid to refugees and survivors of the Nazi concentration camps.
Producer: Becca Bryers
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