Last year, Prime Minister Stefan Löfven (S) promised that the issue of a museum focusing on the Holocaust would be quickly investigated. This is after a proposal from Holocaust survivor Max Safir. In the directive, which is passed on to investigator Birgitta Svensson, the government writes, among other things, that there is no museum activity in Sweden that can collect objects related to the Holocaust and convey memories of the historical event.
It is now up to Birgitta Svensson to make a proposal before March 31 next year on the new museum operations and what the local needs are.
Birgitta Svensson is professor of ethnology at Stockholm University and has previously been, among other things, a permanent secretary at the Royal Academy of Sciences.