„…this is material arousing interest in common history” : Zygmunt Łakociński and Polish Survivors’ Protocols

• The protocols of interviews made with Poles in Sweden in 1945 and early 1946 by Polish Source Institute in Lund, set up by Zygmunt Łakociński, a Polish activist and intellectual, now constitute unique source materials for multidimensional analysis of the Polish memory of the Holocaust, selected aspects of which are presented here. The article offers insight into the circumstances and state of research into Bernadotte Operation, i.e., the transfer to Sweden of ten-odd thousand persons, most of them of Polish origin, saved from Nazi concentration camps, looks at Zygmunt Łakociński as a person and his possibilities of acting to further the Polish cause in Sweden in the light of the complex political situation in post-war Poland, and also reviews other plans to document the memory of the Holocaust, financed by the Swedish state, which places the Polish documentation in the international framework of Holocaust documentation.

Subject headings

HUMANIORA  -- Historia och arkeologi -- Historia (hsv//swe)

HUMANITIES  -- History and Archaeology -- History (hsv//eng)

HUMANIORA  -- Annan humaniora -- Kulturstudier (hsv//swe)

HUMANITIES  -- Other Humanities -- Cultural Studies (hsv//eng)

SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP  -- Annan samhällsvetenskap -- Internationell migration och etniska relationer (hsv//swe)

SOCIAL SCIENCES  -- Other Social Sciences -- International Migration and Ethnic Relations (hsv//eng)

Keyword

Zygmunt Lakocinski

Polish Source Institute

Folke Bernadotte

Polish survivors

Jewish survivors

Historia

History

Zygmunt Łakociński; Bernadotte operation; Nazi crimes documentation

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