Association of Holocaust OrganizationsThe conference is a co-operation between the Danish Institute for International Studies, The Living History Forum (Sweden), the Center for Studies of Holocaust and Religious Minorities (Norway) and the Falstad Center (Norway)Monday 19 October - Research09.00 - 09.30: How to Remember? Holocaust in a Righteous Country
Janne Laursen, Director of the Danish Jewish Museum Venue: The Royal Library, Karen Blixen room
09:45 - 11.00: AHO visit to the Danish Jewish Museum
11.45 - 12.30: Arrival at DIIS, coffee, sandwiches
12.30 – 12.40: Welcome by Nanna Hvidt, Director, Danish Institute for
International Studies
12.40 - 13.00: Holocaust in the Nordic Countries. Introduction.
Keynote by Cecilie Felicia Stokholm Banke, Senior Researcher, DIIS
13.00 - 15.00: Panel 1: Refugees, Deportation and Rescue: How Scandinavian Societies Responded to the Holocaust
Refuge Policy in Scandinavia - Karin Kvist Geverts, Research Coordinator, The Living History Forum
October ’43 – Flight or Rescue? - Sofie Lene Bak, Assistant Professor, University of Copenhagen
Kindertransports/Swedish Red Cross Actions at the End of the War (working title) - Ingrid Lomfors, Director, The Living History Forum
Helpers and perpetrators during the Holocaust in Norway - Øystein Hetland, Project Coordinator, Center for Studies of Holocaust and Religious Minorities
15.00 - 15.30: Coffee
15.30 - 17.00: Panel 2: Waffen SS and Scandinavian Soldiers on the Eastern Front
Scandinavians in the Waffen SS - Niels Bo Poulsen, Director of Institute for Military History and War Studies, Royal Danish Defence College
Lying and Denying: Danish SS and Free Corps Volunteers and Their Participation in the Holocaust - Therkel Stræde, Associate Professor, University of Southern Denmark
Finland between Nazism and Communism - Oula Silvennoinen, Adjunct Professor, Helsinki University
19.00 - 21.00: Facing Evil – Civil Choices in Scandinavia during the German Occupation
Public seminar organized by Humanity in Action Denmark
Chair: Cecilie Felicia Stokholm Banke, Senior Researcher, DIIS
Tuesday 20 October - Education
09.00 - 10.30: Panel 3: New Perspectives on Holocaust Education in the Nordic Countries
Chair: Stine Thuge, Project Manager, DIIS
Holocaust Education in the Nordic Countries. An overview. - Oscar Österberg, Research Coordinator, The Living History Forum
Holocaust Education as Part of Civic Education - Claudia Lenz, Head of Research, The European Wergeland Center
Teaching the Holocaust in Danish and Swedish High-schools - Otto Rühl, Helsingør Gymnasium, Håkon Danielsson & Marcus Karlsson, Katedralskolan in Lund
10.30 - 11.00: Coffee
11.00 - 12.30: Panel 4/Part 1: New Ways to learn about the Holocaust– Project presentations, Moderator: Solvej Berlau, Project Manager, DIIS
Roma-exhibition - Joakim v. Scheele and Mia Taikon, The Living History Forum
Bystander project - Christina Gamstorp, The Living History Forum
Theresienstadt and Escape to Sweden - Solvej Berlau and Stine Thuge, Project Managers, DIIS
Connecting in Time and Space - Peder Nustad, Head of Education, Center for Studies of Holocaust and Religious Minorities
12.30 - 13.30: Lunch
13.30 - 14.30: Panel 4/Part 2: New Ways to learn about the Holocaust –
Project presentations, Moderator: Solvej Berlau, Project Manager, DIIS
The Josef Grabowski Project - Jon Reitan, Deputy Director, Falstad Center
Online learning - Magnus Harrison, National Director of Humanity in Action Denmark
Democratic Readiness against Racism, Anti-Semitism and Undemocratic Attitudes (DEMBRA) - Peder Nustad, Head of Education, Center for Studies of Holocaust and Religious Minorities & Claudia Lenz, Head of Research, The European Wergeland Center
14.30 - 15.00: Discussion, Q and A
15.00 - 15.30: Coffee
15.30 - 17.00: Concluding discussion: Civil Society, Civic Education and the History of the Holocaust
Chair: Kimberly Mann, Director, UN Holocaust Remembrance
Anders Jerichow, Chair of Humanity in Action Denmark
Jon Reitan, Deputy Director, Falstad Center Ingrid Lomfors, Director, The Living History Forum
Guri Hjeltnes, Director, Center for Studies of Holocaust and Religious Minorities 18.00 - 20.00: Reception hosted by the Embassy of Sweden