Welcome to this academic seminar in central Stockholm 19 September commemorating 80 year since the Holocaust in Hungary!
This academic seminar brings together international scholars, with a special focus on previously unexplored aspects of the Swedish rescue actions in Hungary; the activities and contacts of the Hungarian resistance; as
well as new insights about the brutal mechanisms of the perpetrators and the complex forces of survival.
This seminar is organized by Gellert
Hardi-Kovacs, Susanne Berger and Anders
Blomqvist with support from Forum For Living History, World Jewish Congress and the Jewish Congregation in Stockholm.
Everyone is welcome to join. Please complete the registrations using this link by clicking "Anmäl"
Moderator Gellert
Hardi-Kovacs
09.00-09:10 Welcome
The Perpetrators
09.10-09.30 Anders Blomqvist "Local Economic Motives for Deporting Jews"
09.30-09.50 Áron Máthé "The Arrow Cross and the Hungarian militia"
09.50-10.00 Q&A
10.00-10.20 Coffee Break
The Swedish Rescue Actions
10.20-10.40 Ágnes Harrach "The Swedish Red Cross in Hungary – the Work of Valdemar and Nina Langlet"
10.40-11.00 Friederike
Kind-Kovács "Why Not a Righteous Among the Nations? Asta Nilsson and the rescue of Budapest’s Jewish Children"
11.00-11.10 Q&A
The Hungarian Resistance
11.10-11.20 Nóra Szekér "The Ference Koszorús-action of July 1944"
11.20-11.40 Réka Kiss-Földváry "Géza Sóos and the Protestant Church rescue networks in Hungary"
11.40-12.00 Susanne Berger/Gellert Hardi-Kovacs "The secret Swedish-Hungarian intelligence sharing agreement of 1943-44"
12.00-12.10 Q&A
12.10-13.10 Lunch
Survival
13.10-13.30 Kata
Bohus "Iron pills, quarantine, and the beautiful sea: Female Hungarian Jewish survivors’ accounts of post-war
rehabilitation in Sweden"
13.30-13.50 Dóra
Pataricza "From Szeged to Sweden and back: Stories of Holocaust survival and restarting life"
13.50-14.00 Q&A
Best regards,
Anders Blomqvist
Anders Blomqvist
Senior lecturer in History
Dalarna University
School of Culture and Society
791 88 Falun
Sweden
Latest publications:
- Deportations of Roma from Hungary and the Mass Killing at Kamianets-Podilskyi
in 1941,
Holocaust and Genocide Studies,
https://doi.org/10.1093/hgs/dcae010
- Anti-fascism and the
nationality question in the ethnic Romanian-Hungarian borderlands: The case of Satu Mare 1930-1938, in Ahlbäck & Brakén,
Anti-Fascism and Ethnic Minorities.
- The
unwanted citizens: The ‘Legality’ of Jewish destruction in Croatia and Romania during World War II” together with G. Miljan,
Comparative Legal History, https://doi.org/10.1080/2049677X.2023.2270390