Collections
It is therefore a matter of the utmost urgency to preserve their testimonies in writing and in audio and video recordings, alongside documents and artefacts that provide insight into historical events, human destinies and the impact of the Holocaust on our society.
The Swedish Holocaust Museum will collect artefacts, documents and other material that illuminate the Holocaust in a historical context, including the testimonies of survivors with links to Sweden, as well as their descendants and those who knew them.
Collecting
The Living History Forum began assembling a collection for the new museum in 2021. During the summer and autumn of 2022, this collection was transferred to the Swedish Holocaust Museum. The museum continues to accept testimonies, donations, artefacts and documents within its collecting area.
One point of departure for the collection is the life stories and testimonies of Holocaust survivors with links to Sweden and the experiences of those who knew them. Other relevant material could be linked to Sweden's policy of appeasement towards Nazi Germany, rescue efforts and aid to the victims of Nazi policy and Sweden’s prewar, wartime and postwar immigration policy.
In certain cases, other types of material concerning historical conditions going back centuries, or the postwar period up to the present, may be of interest in order to understand the background to and effects of the Holocaust. That said, the primary focus of the collection will be material related to people and events connected to Sweden.
Search the Collections
Our collection is digitized, and we are constantly working to enrich the information about our objects and to increase the number of images. You can search among the images and objects already available in our online database. All information is free to use, and most of the media is licensed under open Creative Commons licenses. Some images depict copyright-protected works; through an extended collective license agreement with Bildupphovsrätt in Sweden (BUS), the National Historical Museums have the right to display these images on Search the Collections.
We share the database with the other museums that are part of the National Historical Museums. Therefore, you will find objects from the Economy Museum, the Hallwyl Museum, the Swedish History Museum, the Royal Armoury, Skokloster Castle, the Tumba Paper Mill Museum, and the Swedish Holocaust Museum in the database.
