Welcome to this academic seminar in central Stockholm 19 September commemorating 80 year since the Holocaust in Hungary! This academic seminar brings together international scholars, with a special focus on previously unexplored aspects of the Swedish rescue actions in Hungary; the activities and contacts of the Hungarian resistance; as well as new insights about the brutal mechanisms of the perpetrators and the complex forces of survival. This seminar is organized by Gellert Hardi-Kovacs<https://www.facebook.com/gellert.kovacs.94?__cft__%5b0%5d=A…, Susanne Berger and Anders Blomqvist<https://www.facebook.com/anders.blomqvist.56?__cft__%5b0%5d=AZ… with support from Forum For Living History, World Jewish Congress and the Jewish Congregation in Stockholm. Everyone is welcome to join. Please complete the registrations using this link by clicking "Anmäl" https://jfst.se/om-oss/kalender/2024/september/resistance-survival-and-the-… Moderator Gellert Hardi-Kovacs<https://www.facebook.com/gellert.kovacs.94?__cft__%5b0%5d=A… 09.00-09:10 Welcome The Perpetrators 09.10-09.30 Anders Blomqvist "Local Economic Motives for Deporting Jews" 09.30-09.50 Áron Máthé "The Arrow Cross and the Hungarian militia" 09.50-10.00 Q&A 10.00-10.20 Coffee Break The Swedish Rescue Actions 10.20-10.40 Ágnes Harrach "The Swedish Red Cross in Hungary - the Work of Valdemar and Nina Langlet" 10.40-11.00 Friederike Kind-Kovács<https://www.facebook.com/friederike.kindkovacs?__cft__%5b0%5… "Why Not a Righteous Among the Nations? Asta Nilsson and the rescue of Budapest's Jewish Children" 11.00-11.10 Q&A The Hungarian Resistance 11.10-11.20 Nóra Szekér "The Ference Koszorús-action of July 1944" 11.20-11.40 Réka Kiss-Földváry "Géza Sóos and the Protestant Church rescue networks in Hungary" 11.40-12.00 Susanne Berger/Gellert Hardi-Kovacs "The secret Swedish-Hungarian intelligence sharing agreement of 1943-44" 12.00-12.10 Q&A 12.10-13.10 Lunch Survival 13.10-13.30 Kata Bohus<https://www.facebook.com/bohuskata?__cft__%5b0%5d=AZV4hKYuoy3LfqGU… "Iron pills, quarantine, and the beautiful sea: Female Hungarian Jewish survivors' accounts of post-war rehabilitation in Sweden" 13.30-13.50 Dóra Pataricza<https://www.facebook.com/dora.pataricza?__cft__%5b0%5d=AZV4hKY… "From Szeged to Sweden and back: Stories of Holocaust survival and restarting life" 13.50-14.00 Q&A Best regards, Anders Blomqvist [cid:image001.png@01DAF474.8559A7C0] Anders Blomqvist Senior lecturer in History Dalarna University School of Culture and Society 791 88 Falun Sweden Latest publications: * Deportations of Roma from Hungary and the Mass Killing at Kamianets-Podilskyi in 1941, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, https://doi.org/10.1093/hgs/dcae010 * Anti-fascism and the nationality question in the ethnic Romanian-Hungarian borderlands: The case of Satu Mare 1930-1938, in Ahlbäck & Brakén, Anti-Fascism and Ethnic Minorities. * The unwanted citizens: The 'Legality' of Jewish destruction in Croatia and Romania during World War II" together with G. Miljan, Comparative Legal History, https://doi.org/10.1080/2049677X.2023.2270390