# @swedense on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DUAiRofDG9-
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/54421497-swedense-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2026-01-27T09:02:09.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** sweden.se (@swedense) — https://gondola.cc/swedense

## Caption

500 voices. 500 testimonies that will never let us forget.

Following the end of the World War II, around 20,000 people were evacuated from Nazi concentration camps to Sweden. Testimonies from 500 of these Holocaust survivors make up the Swedish Ravensbrück Archive, together with personal belongings such as letters, photographs and notebooks.

Most of the interviewees were women who had been imprisoned at Ravensbrück, a concentration camp in Germany built specifically for women and children. Their testimonies bear witness to the atrocities of the Holocaust and the strength of those who survived.

🏛️ The Ravensbrück Archive is preserved at Lund University Library in south Sweden. In 2025, the archive was added to UNESCO's Memory of the World Register, recognising it as a cultural heritage of great value to humanity.

#InternationalHolocaustRemembranceDay #Sweden

Photos from the Ravensbrück Archive by Håkan Håkansson/Lund University Library:

1a. A photo of a woman with child, most likely a family photo kept hidden by someone in captivity.

1b. A prisoner in Bergen–Belsen, probably photographed by the Allied Forces.

2. Detail of a list of prisoners arriving at the Ravensbrück concentration camp in 1938.

3. Detail of a notebook with poetry by prisoners in Ravensbrück. The book is bound with cloth from a prison uniform, where the letter 'P' indicates that the prisoner was a political opponent to the Nazi regime.

4. An envelope with a secret message written in urine, a method used by the women in Ravensbrück to smuggle out information.

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