About us
History as reflection and lesson for the future
The Living History Forum is a Swedish public authority which, using the Holocaust and other crimes against humanity as a starting point, works with issues on tolerance, democracy and human rights from both a national and international perspective. We hereby seek to oppose the lack of respect for equal values for all, what we also call intolerance.
This is a great challenge and our specific mission. We use actual historical events to help people reflect on the age we live in. The past and the present are continuously present in everything we do, which teaches us to see patterns.
We want to equip people with knowledge for the future and our goal is to strengthen the will to work for equal values for all to work for everyone’s equal value – to listen, understand and act. However, relevant information is not sufficient, we must also be creative.
Viewpoints, research and training
We work with viewpoints, research and training. Through excellent contacts in the world of research, with people involved in education, voluntary organizations and other stakeholders we acquire knowledge that we manage, package and pass on. We carry out attitude research together with experts in order to give ourselves and others better opportunities to understand the age we live in.
Through contacts with teachers and other stakeholders within education, for whom we arrange training courses etc, we develop methods and tools for reaching our key target group: youngsters.
We cannot do all of this alone so we are strongly supported by visitors to our exhibitions, people who have participated in our training courses and evening lectures, people who have read the reports and literature we have published – and especially all the teachers and pupils we come into contact with.
