Just sent; Holocaust Teachers Institute; all Invited

Dealing with the Past in the Present: World War II and the Holocaust in Sweden

Augustana College, Rock Island, Illinois

Thursday, October 24 Olin Auditorium

4:00pm Screening of documentary film Harbor of Hope

Saturday October 26, 2019 Olin Auditorium

Session 1: 10:00am –12:15pm

Lecture 1. Sweden and World War II—An Overview

Lars M. Andersson, Uppsala University

Lecture 2. Sweden and the Question of Jewish Refugees

Karin Kvist Geverts, National Library of Sweden

Lecture 3. Remembering WWII and the Holocaust today

Ulf Zander, Lund University

Session 2: 2:00pm – 3:00pm

Presentation by Göran Rosenberg, well-known author/journalist/public intellectual focusing on his award winning book Ett kort uppehåll på vägen från Auschwitz (A Brief Stop on the Road from Auschwitz).  The book deals with his family’s story after his parents came from the camps to Sweden after the war. For an interview in English with Rosenberg about his book, see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k84zhmlM8zU.

Session 3: 3:30pm – 4:30pm  

Panel Discussion:

Andersson, Kvist Geverts, Zander, Rosenberg, and a representative of the Swedish Embassy in Washington D.C.

Topics: 

1. Can/Should historians be moral judges of the past?  

2. The contemporary situation in Sweden and Europe with regard to racism, xenophobia and anti-Semitism.

Concluding Words: 4:30pm

Dr. Thomas Tredway, President Emeritus, Augustana College