Knowledge Hub

Here you will find articles, testimonials, podcasts and digital in-depth content. New material is published continuously.

Content

Selected themes

Selected

Digital exhibition

In Black and in White

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.

Two men are sitting at a table reading newspapers.
Articles

Sweden and the Holocaust

Read more about Sweden and the Holocaust.

Digital companion

Seven Lives

Take part of the digital companion to the former exhibition Seven Lives.

Digital companion

Untold

Take part of the digital companion to the exhibition Untold and learn more about the genocide of Sinti and Roma.

Podcasts and audioguides

Audioguide

In Black and White

An audio guide for the exhibition In Black and White. The journalist Urban Björstadius interviews some of the people who have worked on the exhibition.

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Collage of headlines, images and articles from a scrapbook.

Survivors

In Swedish

Dimensions in Testimony

Dimensions in Testimony provides the opportunity to ask questions to survivors from the Holocaust.

To the Swedish-language version

Stories of survivors

Follow different life stories from persecution to Sweden.

Tobias Rawet

In May 1944, eight-year-old Tobias was living with his family in the Łódź ghetto in Nazi German-occupied Poland. On 7 May, he spent his first money on a Mother’s Day card for his mother Ester.

Lilli and Walter Brünn

When the National Socialists came to power in Germany in 1933, Lilli and Walter Brünn were busy running the Berlin department store they had taken over after Walter’s father. Eventually. Lilli and Walter were granted Swedish residence permits and entered the country with identity cards stamped with the letter J.

Lieselotte Jacks

Lieselotte Jacks was 15 years old in June 1939. Her parents, Gertrud and Alfred, had sent her to Sweden on the Kindertransport from Berlin to Gothenburg. They had no idea if they would ever meet again.

Kiwa Zyto

Kiwa was only seven years of age when Poland was engulfed by war and he had only been in school for one week. When the war finally ended in 1945, he was 12; he had no idea where his mother was nor whether any of his family had survived.

Hanna Dimitri

Hanna held on tightly to her little sister Anita’s hand. The sisters had been taken to the extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau. Hanna was 10 years old, Anita three years younger, and she remembered clutching her sister's hand tightly throughout the ordeal, afraid they would be separated.

Eva Israel

When Eva was barely three years old, SS soldiers came into the family kitchen searching for her father Gottfried. The situation for German Jews was getting worse and the family tried to get an entry permit to the USA. Instead, Eva and her mother Elsbeth came to Sweden. Her father Gottfried never got the opportunity.

Czesław Aredzki

In August 1943, when Czesław was having his usual cigarette out in the street in Końskie in Poland, he was arrested by the Gestapo. Czesław didn't understand why he was being taken away. Nobody explained to him that he was being sent to Auschwitz.

Alice Grosz

Alice wears a disguise, but the veil of her widow's costume is turned up and her face can be seen when she meets someone she knows in the street. He recognises her and knows that Alice is Jewish. He exchanges a few words with her and wishes her good luck.

Project and in-depth content

Lost Voices

They survived the Holocaust and came to Sweden after the end of World War II, but died shortly after arriving. Who were they and what can be said about their lives? Take part in their lives and read more about the project and the Northern Jewish Cemetery below.

Sabina Krautwirt

Sabina was born shortly before the outbreak of World War I in Krakow, one of Poland's oldest cities and a lively cultural hub. It was also home to some of the oldest surviving synagogues in Europe and known for its long Jewish heritage.

Rywka Posladek

Rywka lived with her family in the city of Łódź in central Poland. Like Rywka's family, the Posladeks, over one third of the city's inhabitants were Jewish. Rywka, who was 14 years old when Łódź fell under the control of Nazi Germany in September 1939, only lived to be 20. 

Rozsi Hirschl

Rozsi was born in 1915 as the youngest daughter of the Singer family and grew up in the town of Nagykanizsa in western Hungary. Her father Mikhai worked as a railway conductor while her mother Sidonia was a housewife.

Margit Polgar

Margit, or Margarita as she was also known, was born on Christmas Day in 1920. She grew up in what was then Czechoslovakia in the small town of Stará Ďala, now called Hurbanovo.

Lia Stark

Lia Stark was born and raised in the beautiful town of Sighet, also known by its Hungarian name Máramarossziget, in what is now northern Romania.

Klara Schwarcz

Klara grew up in the picturesque town of Tokaj, known for its wines, in north-east Hungary near the Slovakian border. She lived with her big family on Görög Street, just a stone's throw away from the town's large synagogue.

Hertha Heyman

Hertha lived in the town of Stettin in what was then German Pomerania, now Szczecin in Poland, with her husband Wilhelm and their sons Eugen and Manfried. When the Nazis came to power in Germany in 1933, Manfried was only four years old.

Herbert Pinkus

Herbert was the eldest son of Max and Johanna Pinkus and was born in Dresden, Germany, where he grew up with his parents and brother Günther who was just one year younger than him.

Gerte Lorie

Gerte grew up in Prague with her older brother Josef and her parents Moric and Luisa. She was 20 years old when the Nazis seized Prague on March 15, 1939.

Czarna Ber

Czarna grew up with her family in Łódź, Poland. She was 16 years old when Nazi troops invaded her home town in September 1939.

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Stories from our collection

Last letter

The last letter from Anna Posner to her son Ludwig is dated January 21, 1942 and is preserved in the museum's collection. Find out more about Ludwig and his parents Anna and Sigfried.

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The Posner family.

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.

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Walter Israels skjorta

A child-sized shirt that once belonged to Walter Israel. Sewn-on label with monogram "W. I." at the neck.

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Collections

Read more about the museum's collection and objects. Here you will also find Search the collections.

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