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Malmö wants to host international Holocaust conference
11 feb 2019
The Swedish city of Malmö is pushing to host an international Holocaust conference next year to commemorate the 75th anniversary of tens of thousands of Jews being freed from Nazi death camps.
The conference, announced three weeks ago when Prime Minister Stefan Löfven launched his second term in government, will seek to shine new light on the systematic murder of six million European Jews by Nazi Germany, as well as looking at continuing racism against Jews today.
“We have a duty to never forget the holocaust and its millions of victims,” Roko Kursar, Malmö’s First Deputy Mayor, said in a statement. “Many refugees rejected by Sweden later met their deaths in Hitler’s extermination camps. Malmö then became a Harbour of Hope for those who came on Folke Bernadotte’s white buses.”
The conference is part of a wider Holocaust commemoration planned in Sweden which will also see young Swedes funded to visit Holocaust sites in Europe, and the establishment of a Swedish Holocaust museum.
https://www.thelocal.se/20190211/mal...ust-conference
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