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Survivors of Nazi Persecution, Refugees, Knowledge Actors: The Cultural Translation of Knowledge in an Effort to Document Nazi Atrocities, 1945–1946
Linköping University, Department of Culture and Society, Division of Culture, Society, Design and Media. Linköping University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Lund University.ORCID iD: 0000-0003-4491-5520
2024 (English)In: History of Intellectual Culture: Experimental Spaces: Knowledge Production and its Environments in the Long Nineteenth Century / [ed] Charlotte A. Lerg , Johan Östling , Jana Weiß , Anne Kwaschik and Claudia Roesch, Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter Open, 2024, 3, p. 25-47Chapter in book (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

Objects smuggled out of Nazi concentration camps and brought to Sweden by liberated prisoners have served as valued museum objects in Sweden for almost 60 years. They and the written testimonies given by survivors represent not only the suffering experienced by the victims of the Nazis and their resistance against dehumanization but also how these aspects of the Second World War and the Holocaust were culturally transferred from the epicenter of Nazi atrocities to a nominally neutral country in the immediate postwar period. What has been overlooked is that the former prisoners coming to Sweden as“repatriates” brought with them more than just objects and stories. They also brought knowledge. They carried this knowledge to Sweden, where it was culturally translated into a new context. Unlike the objects, however, there has been limited focus on the knowledge brought to Sweden by survivors of Nazi persecution and the significance of this knowledge. This article seeks to rectify this by arguing that many of the survivors whose objects and testimonies are now in Swedish museums and archival collections were not merely passive contributors to our knowledge of Nazi atrocities but were also knowledge actors who carried and culturally translated knowledge that helped enable the collection of this material.

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Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter Open, 2024, 3. p. 25-47
Keywords [en]
survivors of Nazi persecution, Holocaust documentation, migrantknowledge, cultural translation, knowledge actors
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History Cultural Studies
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URN: urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-208758DOI: 10.1515/9783111291383-002Libris ID: tdw6lsq8rv7h8z6wISBN: 9783111290904 (print)ISBN: 9783111291383 (electronic)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:liu-208758DiVA, id: diva2:1907695
Available from: 2024-10-23 Created: 2024-10-23 Last updated: 2024-12-20Bibliographically approved

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