Culture Talk: A New Swedish Holocaust Museum
May 16, 2022 6:30 PM
Culture Talk: A New Swedish Holocaust Museum
In June, the first-ever Swedish Holocaust Museum will be inaugurated in Stockholm to preserve and perpetuate the memory of the Holocaust. Please join us in House of Sweden for a conversation between Dr. Robert Williams, deputy director for international affairs at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, and Dr. Rebecka Katz Thor, Swedish researcher, writer and editor. Dr. Katz Thor will discuss the focus of the new Swedish museum, what stories it will narrate, and in what ways Holocaust commemoration is part of a Swedish cultural heritage. Doors open 6:30pm I Conversation starts at 7:00pm This event is organized in cooperation with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and the Swedish Presidency of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance with support by the Swedish Arts Council.

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