Johan Gabrielsen
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And that's what I've been working on.
They're going well.
I have a 92-year-old mother who's very isolated in her house, and they're doing pretty well.
I mean, Sweden is so weird.
They seem to go against almost every other country, so they haven't really in lockdown or anything.
There's almost business as usual, almost.
And that is both terrifying, but at the same time, you know, part of me think maybe they are on the right track.
Maybe that's the way one should go.
But I have friends who lost people in Sweden.
Wow.
Yeah, it's a very strange time to see.
I mean, I think the deaths are, if it's 3,000 deaths, and I think here in Australia, like, we know to have hundreds,
I just can't really get my mind about if they are really doing the right thing there.
Yeah, I did a documentary about Raoul Wallenberg, who was a Swedish diplomat in Hungary, who some say saved thousands and thousands of Jews.
People don't know exactly how many, but at least 3,000.
And it was his story, how he risked his life to give these people Swedish fake kind of passports.
And then he very tragically disappeared after the war in 1945, when the Russians came into Hungary.
They took him, and basically he died in a Russian prison after saving all his people.
But it's interesting what you're saying about Theresienstadt, because I grew up in Sweden with neighbors who was in Theresienstadt concentration camp as well.
I just remember going into the house and coming from quite a safe suburban Swedish home, and then coming into the house.