ABSTRACT
How many Jewish refugees entered Sweden in the late 1930s and what happened to them? What were their experiences of the Swedish labour market? What kind of reactions did the refugees encounter and provoke in Sweden? How did the Swedish economy and authorities react to the process of ‘aryanisation’? These are some of the questions addressed in this article, which also considers why the Swedes have taken so long to begin discussing their bystander role, behaviour and attitudes towards the Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany in the 1930s and the beginning of the Second World War.
