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Shaping Ongoing Survival in a Swedish Refugee Camp : A refugee-centered history of Jewish and non-Jewish survivors of Nazi persecution in Sweden

Martínez, Victoria Van Orden LU (2022) In Nordisk Judaistik - Scandinavian Jewish Studies 33(1). p.19-36
Abstract
Among the hundreds of sites that housed survivors of Nazi persecution who came to Sweden in the spring and summer of 1945, one of the largest was at the small village of Öreryd. Between June 1945 and September 1946, around a thousand Jewish and non-Jewish Polish survivors came to this site, where they were expected to stay only until they were well enough to return to their home countries or migrate elsewhere. This article contributes to filling a gap in refugee history in Sweden, dealing with how survivors experienced Swedish refugee camps and shaped the refugee camp environment on their own terms. Thinking with Peter Gatrell’s framework of ‘refugeedom’, a wide range of sources have been examined for insight into how Polish survivors in... (More)
Among the hundreds of sites that housed survivors of Nazi persecution who came to Sweden in the spring and summer of 1945, one of the largest was at the small village of Öreryd. Between June 1945 and September 1946, around a thousand Jewish and non-Jewish Polish survivors came to this site, where they were expected to stay only until they were well enough to return to their home countries or migrate elsewhere. This article contributes to filling a gap in refugee history in Sweden, dealing with how survivors experienced Swedish refugee camps and shaped the refugee camp environment on their own terms. Thinking with Peter Gatrell’s framework of ‘refugeedom’, a wide range of sources have been examined for insight into how Polish survivors in the Öreryd refugee camp navigated the precarity and uncertainty of their existence as survivors and refugees in Sweden and endeavoured to shape their immediate and future lives. (Less)
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concentration camp survivors, refugees, Sweden, survival, refugee camps, Second World War, Öreryd refugee camp, the Holocaust
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Nordisk Judaistik - Scandinavian Jewish Studies
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33
issue
1
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18 pages
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Donner Institute for Research in Religious and Cultural History
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  • scopus:85133396051
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0348-1646
DOI
10.30752/nj.114691
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English
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  author       = {{Martínez, Victoria Van Orden}},
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  keywords     = {{concentration camp survivors; refugees; Sweden; survival; refugee camps; Second World War; Öreryd refugee camp; the Holocaust}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  number       = {{1}},
  pages        = {{19--36}},
  publisher    = {{Donner Institute for Research in Religious and Cultural History}},
  series       = {{Nordisk Judaistik - Scandinavian Jewish Studies}},
  title        = {{Shaping Ongoing Survival in a Swedish Refugee Camp : A refugee-centered history of Jewish and non-Jewish survivors of Nazi persecution in Sweden}},
  url          = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.30752/nj.114691}},
  doi          = {{10.30752/nj.114691}},
  volume       = {{33}},
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