He wants to talk about his Jewishness in the school corridor

It was last fall that Peter Vig, a retired teacher, suggested to the headmaster at Malmö Borgarskola that he should come in and work a few hours a week as a resource teacher with his Jewish identity in focus.

"Because most people don't meet a Jewish person," he says.

Principal Magnus Roth napped.

- The Jewish population is steadily declining in Malmö and fewer can give their perspective because there are a few survivors left in life, he says.

He hopes to be a seed and believes in the meeting between people. The Jewish group has long felt exposed and many are hiding their Jewishness. But when Peter Vig is at school, he goes with a small checkered head on his head.

- Some say shalom but of course I see some are a bit uncomfortable. It's not a "quick fix" just because they meet me, but this is a long-term job.

In 2018, the Crime Prevention Council, BRÅ, identified 278 police reports with anti-Semitic motives. But there is a great darkness. Peter Vig himself has been exposed to hatred and threats because of his Jewish identity in his former teaching role.

- It has been very tough at times. While I have gained a lot of respect, I have also encountered a lot of aggression, he says.

On Holocaust Remembrance Day, he will tell his own story, how he himself came here as a refugee to Sweden from Hungary in the 1950s. His parents survived the Holocaust but many others of his relatives were murdered in Auschwitz.

"Dad was involved in one of Auschwitz's death marches a week before the camp was liberated, but he managed to escape with a little boy he promised to take care of, but the boy did not survive the winter.