De Befriade 1945 - About The Liberated 1945

The Liberated 1945

This exhibition is to preserve the memory of the Holocaust survivors who came to Sweden after the liberation when the WWII was over.
They were young people, mostly women, and many of them died after the liberation despite the care received here in Sweden. Those who survived managed to resume their lives in different lands after long and complicated journeys. The stories of the seven of them are described and illustrated here in great detail.
The exhibition tells their detailed life stories after the liberation through the photographs and documents often created in Sweden and preserved in the Swedish archives. Among them are the medical histories taken by the Swedish doctors as well as various entry and exit documents issued at different times during each person's journey. Moving through these original documents and pictures we learn not only about the journey -- from point to point-- towards the final destination either in Israel or elsewhere in the world, but we are also able to recreate the family histories of the seven protagonists prior to liberation. Importantly, these are recorded objectively in the presented documents, creating a unique record of the experience. Access to the original documents allows the viewer to establish an intimate contact with each of the survivors.