Between 1933 and 1946, the media reported extensively on Hitler, Nazi Germany, and the war. Radio and newsreels delivered daily updates, including reports on the Holocaust and the genocide of Europe's Jews.
In the spring of 1945, Germany was about to lose the war. During ongoing bombings, the Swedish Red Cross, together with the Swedish government, carried out a large rescue mission.
At the Northern Jewish Cemetery in Stockholm stand gravestones of Holocaust survivors who came to Sweden in 1945 but died shortly after. Their voices are silenced, but their memory lives on – who were they, and what can we learn about their lives?
Elisabeth Citrom and Tobias Rawet survived the Holocaust and have been interviewed about their lives before, during, and after it. Their stories are now part of the interactive biographies in Dimensions in Testimony.
Why did the Nazis murder hundreds of thousands of Sinti and Roma? Why were so few allowed to come to Sweden? And why has all of this remained untold?
