Resistance, Survival and the Swedish humanitarian rescue actions 1944-1945
Resistance, Survival and the Swedish humanitarian rescue actions 1944-1945
Academic Seminar:
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.
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
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