Swedish Jews and the Holocaust
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9781138045880
Subjects: Jews, politics and government; World war, 1939-1945, jews; Holocaust, jewish (1939-1945); Sweden, history
Description: "We will be judged in our own time and in the future by measuring the aid that we, inhabitants of a free and fortunate country, gave to our brethren in this time of greatest disaster." This declaration, made shortly after the pogroms of November 1938 by the Jewish communities in Sweden, was truer than anyone could have forecast at the time. Pontus Rudberg focuses on this sensitive issue - Jewish responses to the Nazi persecutions and mass murder of Jews. What actions did Swedish Jews take to aid the Jews in Europe during the years 1933–45 and what determined their policies and actions? --