ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses how several repositories of testimonies from World War II refugees in Sweden were archived and consequently either remembered or forgotten. By analysing and contextualising these collections in relation to different forms of memory politics, the chapter reflects on how remembrance of the Second World War has been shaped in Sweden and the process by which traumatic memories of refugees have been integrated or not into the country’s cultural memory. It is only at the turn of the millennium, with the increasing impact of global Holocaust remembrance, that these collections of documents, after a long and intricate journey, have attracted renewed scholarly and public interest and begun to inform the Swedish cultural memory of the war.
