in detail
In 1945, after Sweden dropped the neutrality it had adopted during World War II, it opened its borders to Jews rescued from the German concentration camps. After World War II, more than 10.000 Holocaust survivors lived in Sweden, along with several thousand Jews who had emigrated there during the war.
In 1994 Halina Neujhar and Romuald Wroblewski of the Swedish Holocaust Memorial Association decided to build a Holocaust memorial in Stockholm. The memorial was designed by Sivert Lindblom and Gabriel Herdevall and stands near the Great Synagogue in Stockholm. Swedish King Carl Gustav XVI dedicated it in 1998.
The memorial resembles a Jewish cemetery. It consists of seven granite plates, in front of which stands a Menora. Each plate holds a plaque on which are inscribed the names, dates and locations of a total of 8.500 Jews from Sweden or their descendants, who became victims of National Socialism.
The 42-metre high memorial symbolizes the connection between the history of the Holocaust and a future in which the horrors of the past must never be repeated.
