The Living History Forum
The Living History Forum is a public agency. We work for democracy and equality between all people, using lessons learned from the Holocaust.
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About us - With the Holocaust as a Starting Point
Our wish is to equip people with knowledge for the future, our goal is to work for everyone’s equal value.
Collection of Holocaust memories
On behalf of the Swedish government The Living History Forum has commenced a nationwide collection of Holocaust memories related to Sweden.
Having an understanding of why people are intolerant, the form it takes and how geographically widespread it is, is crucial to finding ways of combating such attitudes.
The Per Anger Prize to human rights defenders
An international prize, established in 2004 by the Swedish Government to promote initiatives supporting human rights.
Learn more about our current exhibitions here.
We produce exhibitions and educational materials about topics where it is obvious that general perceptions and/or ideas have led to terrible actions.
Stumbling stones in Stockholm
All across Europe, 70,000 so-called Stolpersteine (or “stumbling stones”) have been laid down in memory of people who fell victim to the Holocaust. Swedish stumbling stones can be found outside three addresses in Stockholm.
