Advances in Holocaust History and Education

Pontus Rudberg is Associate Professor of History and Researcher at Södertörn University, Sweden.Karin Kvist Geverts is Associate Professor of History and Director of the Institute for Holocaust Research in Sweden.Stephane Bruchfeld is a doctoral candidate in the Department of History of Science and Ideas at Uppsala University, Sweden.

• Introduction; Stéphane Bruchfeld, Karin Kvist Geverts, and Pontus Rudberg.- 1. 'It may have an element of geography': Distance, the Swedish rescue of Jews in Budapest, and the historian; Tim Cole.- 2. Bystanders of the Holocaust: What do we learn from local studies?; Omer Bartov.- 3. Theresienstadt in Swedish history culture; Ulf Zander.- 4. A new turn in Holocaust scholarship: The role of the unpredictable and the irrational; Debórah Dwork.- 5. The issuing of Swedish citizenships as a form of rescue; Carl Henrik Carlsson.- 6. 'The sentenced to death testify': The Tegen’s and their collection of Holocaust testimonies; Lars M Andersson.- 7. Leon Rappaport’s exile and struggle to rescue his family; Izabela A. Dahl.- 8. Reception and reactions on a local level: The case of Uddevalla; Heléne Lööw.- 9. Paul A. Levine and the making of the Raoul Wallenberg project archive; Malin Thor Tureby.- 10. Holocaust education through 'authentic sites' of Nazi persecution in Sweden; Victoria Van Orden Martínez.- 11. In the face of challenges: Holocaust education in Ukraine; Iryna Radchenko.- 12. Berlin to Bergen-Belsen: Trajectories of persecution and historical documents as an approach to historical learning about the Holocaust; Akim Jah.