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Voices from Ravensbrück
– a unique collection of sources from the survivors of Ravensbrück
In the spring of 1945 more than 21,000 former concentration camp prisoners came to the southern parts of Sweden through the Red Cross. Zygmunt £akociñski, Polish lecturer at Lund University, and Sture Bolin, historian, started a project that involved interviewing and documenting the experiences of the former prisoners. The Swedish government financed the project that went on from October 1945 until November 1946 and resulted in more than 500 interviews. The archive and some of the interviews are now accessible on-line.
Cover of notebook made of prison garments.
Project funders:
The Living History Forum (New window)
The Foundation of Eduard and Sophie Heckscher
The Nordenstedt Foundation
Memorial Foundation of Jewish Culture
Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (New window)