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Det judiska Högalid #41 - Håkan Blomqvist

29 Apr 2026

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- Jag älskade mina farföräldrar, trots att de var övertygade nazister, även efter Andra världskriget, en obegriplighet för mig. Farfar drev She...

Det judiska Högalid #40 - Bengt Hamberg

17 Apr 2026

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- Jag vågade aldrig fråga mina föräldrar, hur flydde de undan Förintelsen och hur de kom till Sverige? Det skäms jag för än i dag, säger Beng...

Det judiska Högalid #39 - Arno Katzorek

11 Apr 2026

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- Vi bodde på Klippgatan och det kom ett samtal och jag hör hur min pappa börjar gråta jättehögt. Han får veta att hans syster blivit överkör...

Nakba #61 - Zakia Islam Nofal Al-Badawi

04 Apr 2026

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1947 "Four Jewish men came to the village: Simcha, Meir, David, and Shmuel. They wanted to buy our land. Some agreed to sell, others refused. The men...

#64 Zakia Islam Nofal Al-Badawi

04 Apr 2026

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Det judiska Högalid #38 - Kenneths bar mitzva 1961

27 Mar 2026

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En bandinspelning som min pappa, Arthur Hermele, gjorde från min bror, Kenneths z"l, bar mitzvah-fest, 1961. Som jag minns det var det på Hollanders...

Det judiska Högalid #37 - Leif Zern

13 Mar 2026

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- Jag är född Leif Zernjaffsky 1939 på sommaren, vilket jag också hette när jag började i Sofia Folkskola på söder. Men sen förkortade familj...

Det judiska Högalid #36 - Håkan Forsell

06 Mar 2026

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Vid 1800-talets slut hade cirka 400 öst-judar invandrat till Sverige. Många bosatte sig på Söder, där det fanns många nedgångna och därmed bil...

Det judiska Högalid #35 - Här talas jiddisch!

27 Feb 2026

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Apropå förra veckans avsnitt med Leif Freilich har jag grävt fram en av min pappas gamla bandinspelningar. Pappa hade köpt en Grundig bandspelare,...

Nakba #60 - Mohamed Mahmoud Gadallah

25 Feb 2026

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In 1946 I was working at the King David Hotel in al-Quds when the Irgun carried out a bombing against the southern wing. The British military had its ...

Det judiska Högalid #34 - Leif Freilich

21 Feb 2026

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- Pappa fick en stroke och blev delvis förlamad när han var 73. Till slut blev det för tungt för mamma. Pappa kom till Rosenlunds sjukhus, där ha...

Nakba #59 - Hassan Ibrahim al-Najjar

21 Feb 2026

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1948 “My father had binoculars that I was allowed to borrow. Through them I could see how the Zionists burned down the Bedouins’ tents on the outs...

Det judiska Högalid #33 - Yosel Broide

20 Feb 2026

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I avsnitt #31 av Det judiska Högalid berättade Herbert Trus att hans far, Lejb Trus, anslöt sig till partisanerna i skogarna utanför Bransk, efter...

Det judiska Högalid #32 - Peter Haas

13 Feb 2026

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- Mina föräldrars äktenskap var inte lyckligt. Mamma fick tre barn med tre olika män, säger Peter Haas.

Det judiska Högalid #32 - Yosel Broide

09 Feb 2026

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I avsnitt #30 berättade Herbert Trus att hans farfar, Alter Trus, 1944 anslöt sig till partisanerna i skogarna utanför Bransk, Polen. Där fick han...

Nakba #58 - George Baramki Khury och Laura Khury

08 Feb 2026

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George Baramki Khury (GBK): “My sister Laura and I lived in al-Quds, near the Mandelbaum Gate. We had two houses, one on each side of St. George Str...

Det judiska Högalid #31 - Herbert Trus

06 Feb 2026

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- Min farmor, Sarah Trus, mördades 1942 i förintelselägret Treblinka. Jag hade velat träffa henne, säger Herbert Trus.

Nakba #57 - This song cost him 6 months in jail

02 Feb 2026

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Samia Nasir Khury recounts: “In 1993, during the First Intifada, my son produced a song and had it copied onto cassette tapes. I paid for the copyin...

Nakba #56 - Samia Nasir Khury

01 Feb 2026

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59. Mohamed Mahmoud Harb

01 Feb 2026

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59. Mohamed Mahmoud Harb

01 Feb 2026

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Nakba #54 - ‘Abd al-Munim Fayiz Sa‘ad

31 Jan 2026

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Nakba #53 - Subhia Salman al-Natur

31 Jan 2026

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1939 “My father was a farmer and we had cows. He sold the milk. My mother was from the city, from Jaffa, so she never milked the cows—neither did ...

Det judiska Högalid #30 - Yvonne Leff

30 Jan 2026

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- Mamma fick inte gifta sig med någon som inte var jude. Det var en omöjlighet. Men hon blev aldrig kär i någon av de judiska killarna. När hon v...

29 Arek Folkman 1975

24 Jan 2026

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Det judiska Högalid #28 - Rikard Folkman

23 Jan 2026

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- Jag började Hillelskolan för att bli mer judisk, men jag kände mig ensam. Jag åt skinka hemma. Det berättade jag aldrig. Jag kände mig ensam ä...

Nakba #52 - Muhammad Mustafa al-Najjar

21 Jan 2026

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1948 “The Egyptian army came to our aid. They were 6,000 men. Our house was located on high ground, and we had a clear view of the Jewish settlement...

Nakba #51 - Rasmiya ‘Abdalrahman

21 Jan 2026

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1949 “The Jews tried to force us to leave the village and go away, either toward al-Khalil (Hebron) or the Gaza Strip. But we refused. We said that ...

Det judiska Högalid #27 - Renée Hirschfelds bat mitsva-tal

16 Jan 2026

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- När jag tagit min bat mitzva håller jag ett tal i synagoga, om vad en judisk kvinna ska göra. Efteråt spelade vi in en skiva med talet i konsert...

Det judiska Högalid #26 - Renée Hirschfeld

16 Jan 2026

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Nakba #50 - Hassan Muhammad al-Ja‘abari

15 Jan 2026

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1941 “On the eastern side, up toward the mountain, we had planted olive trees and almond trees. On the western side, close to the coast, we grew whe...

Nakba #49 - Nabil Sa‘id al-Kurd

15 Jan 2026

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“In 1954, UNRWA reached an agreement with Jordan, which at the time governed East al-Quds, to build 28 houses in Sheikh Jarrah. We were one of the f...

Nakba #48 - Muhammad Musa Abu Lial

11 Jan 2026

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1945 “I grew up in the Romayma neighborhood. My father traveled a lot on business, among other places to Jaffa and Jordan. Jews, Christians, and Mus...

Nakba #47 - Claudette Habesh

08 Jan 2026

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1948 ”Vi hade ett mycket bra liv i Talbiya, i al-Quds. Min far var affärsman i tryckeribranschen. Familjens verksamhet gick tillbaka till 1920-tale...

Nakba #46 - Jamil Jalal ‘Aql

08 Jan 2026

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1936 “There were about 2,500 people living in my village. In 1936, the same year I was born, a general strike took place. It lasted for half a year....

Nakba #45 - Widad Kawar

08 Jan 2026

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1937 The family settled in Bayt Lahm. I started at a new boarding school, this time in Ramallah. It was run by the Quakers, and I felt very much at ho...

Nakba #44 - Nada ‘Ubayd

08 Jan 2026

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1949 “A voice over a loudspeaker announced that we were forced to leave al-Tayyibah, but that we would be allowed to return after a couple of days. ...

Nakba #43 - Abd al-Mannan Hassan Shbayta

08 Jan 2026

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1945 “My father died when I was three. I remember two things about him; I remember riding behind him on the donkey. And I remember him lying dead on...

Nakba #42 - Safia Hassan Shbayta

07 Jan 2026

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1930 “We owned 20 hectares of land and lived a good life. My father had six employees working in the fields. We grew cucumbers, tomatoes, wheat, cor...

Nakba #41 - Lubna Alian al-Hissi

07 Jan 2026

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”My parents lived in Hiribya. Two of my paternal uncles took part in the resistance when the Israelis attacked in 1948. One of my uncles was surroun...

Nakba #40 - Mahmud al-Hissi

07 Jan 2026

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“We lived in a house in al-Hilwa in Jaffa, next to the Jabaliya Mosque. Jaffa was largely Arab, but we also had some neighbors who were Palestinian ...

Nakba #39 - Hilwa Iskander

07 Jan 2026

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1936 “At the beginning of the Arab uprising against the British, my father was shot in the back. A couple of years later, the British killed my uncl...

Nakba #38 - Munhir Fahoum

07 Jan 2026

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1934 “I was born in Irbid, in al-Urdunn, but my family comes from al-Nasira. We have lived there for 300 years. I was a wild child. When my father h...

Nakba #37 - Amin Awayda

07 Jan 2026

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1948 “After the massacre in Dayr Yasin, which was a suburb of al-Quds, we were forced to flee. Most people were afraid of suffering the same fate. B...

Det judiska Högalid #25 -Mattias Sackrén

06 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

- Min pappa Jerry föddes 1939. När han var sex månader övergav farfar familjen. De sågs aldrig igen, säger Mattias Sackrén. - Pappa kom att job...

Det judiska Högalid #24 - Mirjam Ettlinger Frajnd

02 Jan 2026

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- Min pappa var född i Sverige och vi bodde på eleganta Östermalm. När jag kom till judiska lekskolan så minns jag att de här föräldrarna såg...

Nakba #37 - Nabiha Hammad Abu Jamus

02 Jan 2026

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Nakba #36 - Muhammad Abu Hashem

01 Jan 2026

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1946 “There were some Jews living in my village, and we were friends with them. In Akka there were more Jews. If I got sick, I used to go to a Jewis...

Nakba #34 - Ismail Yakub al-Sayfi

01 Jan 2026

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1948 “The Egyptian army was supposed to defend the village, but when the Jews attacked at night, the Egyptians abandoned us. My mother, my older bro...

Nakba #34 -Maryam al-Sayfi

01 Jan 2026

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Nakba #33 - Ziyad Hamid Maziyad

01 Jan 2026

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Nakba #32 - Kamil al-Shaykh Qasim

01 Jan 2026

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Nakba #31 - Ali Saadi

31 Dec 2025

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1948 "The Zionists killed my maternal uncle, Ahmed Shaban, and three others. They were shot in front of all the villagers. My uncle, who was perhaps 3...

Nakba #30 - Fayiz ‘Auda

31 Dec 2025

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1946 ”My father owned a lot of land where he grew wheat and tobacco. He sold the tobacco to a company in ‘Akka. We had sheep, goats, camels, and c...

Nakba #29 - Amna Aydi

31 Dec 2025

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1947 “Lubya was a large village. The land stretched all the way down toward Ṭabariyya. We were farmers and grew olives, figs, and grapes. Some of ...

Nakba #28 - Fatima Abu Sultan

31 Dec 2025

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1948 “When the Zionists attacked the villages around Hamama, people fled to our village. Then our village was attacked as well. The attack came from...

Nakba #27 - Assad Ammya 6 dB

31 Dec 2025

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“We lived in a small house on Mount Carmel. It was a mixed area with Muslims and Jews. My father worked at a cigarette factory and also sold olive o...

Nakba #26 - Abdullah Taleb El Salhane

31 Dec 2025

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Nakba #25 - Safia Mohammad Alawis

31 Dec 2025

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Nakba #24 - Khalid Jameel Saed Mosmar

31 Dec 2025

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Nakba #23 - Mahmoud Abdulatif

31 Dec 2025

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Nakba #22 - Hisen Farea al-Sabour

31 Dec 2025

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21. Lee Mousa

31 Dec 2025

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Nkaba #20 - Kazim al Zu‘ubi

30 Dec 2025

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1943 “Palestinian Jews and Arabs lived side by side, like one family. Arabs married Jews and Jews married Arabs. They were our friends, our relative...

Nakba #19 - Fatima Abdurahman Steti

30 Dec 2025

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Nkba #18 - Hayat Dawud Muhammad al-Qawasmi

30 Dec 2025

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Nakba #17 - Fayza Abed Bayrakji

30 Dec 2025

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1946 “My father owned a lot of land where he grew grapes, figs, olives, and other crops. We also had livestock. Many people worked for us during the...

Nakba #16 - Sara Aydi

30 Dec 2025

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1937 “I was an only child. My father died when I was four years old. My mother remarried his cousin. They had four more children.” 1947 “I got m...

Nakba #15 - Dunya Hamid

30 Dec 2025

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“I always slept next to my grandmother. I used to lie there hugging her. One evening, I woke up to gunfire and bombing. There were only children and...

Nakba #14 - Fawzeeyya Mustafa

30 Dec 2025

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1948 “Before I had turned seven, we finally got a school in our village. My father wanted me to receive an education. I, along with eight other girl...

Nakba #14 - Dunia Hameed

29 Dec 2025

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“I always slept next to my grandmother. I used to lie there hugging her. One evening, I woke up to gunfire and bombing. There were only children and...

Nakba #13 - Hassan Ahmed Jaber

29 Dec 2025

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“My country is not a suitcase, and I am not on a journey.”

#12 Mofid al Sadek

29 Dec 2025

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1948 — When was the first time you met a Jew? “It was when they bombed our village and we were forced to flee with only the clothes we were wearin...

#11 Ghalia Thahir Al-Harbishi

29 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

- When were you born? 'How can I remember when my mother gave birth to me? I am 95 years old. As a child, I had a carefree life. We used to collect wo...

#10 Mohamad Zarra

29 Dec 2025

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1946 ”As a boy, I remember the beach in Tantura. I was five or six years old. The sand was soft, clean, and white. The water was shallow far out. Th...

#9 Abdallah Shahada

29 Dec 2025

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1946 “When I was four, I used to go with my mother to the stream. There we filled our buckets with water. I remember sitting under a tree eating fig...

#8 Adnan Abu Odeh

29 Dec 2025

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1933 “My father worked in the soap industry. The olive oil season runs from November to March. Father used to work for four months. Then he would re...

#7 Rashid al-Haje

29 Dec 2025

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#6 Mousa Ghourab

29 Dec 2025

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Mousa Ghorab, born in Ashkelon, 1944. Recorded 2019 in Helsingborg. Photo: Cato Lein. ”My father was a technician and welder; at first he ran a café...

#5 Fatima Yanes

29 Dec 2025

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Fatima Yanes, born 1935 in Bayt Dajan, Palestine. Interpreter: Ziad Yanes. Photo: Cato Lein. Recorded in Sollentuna, 2019. “I was born in Bayt Dajan...

#4 Yusra Shukr

28 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

“Being in flight means starting from zero.”, says Yusra Shukr. She is born 1946 in Tantura, Palestine. Recorded in Uppsala, Sweden, 2019. Photo:...

Nakba #3 - Akram Mohammad Ayyash

28 Dec 2025

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“Falastin is like the blood in my body. Haifa is like the air I breathe. They live within me”, says Akram Mohammad Ayyash. Recorded in Amman, 2019...

Nakba #2 - Mohammed Hourani

28 Dec 2025

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Mohammed Hassan Hourani is born 1941 in Safad, Palestine. Recorded in Helsingborg, Sweden, 2019. Photo: Cato Lein and interpreter: Outros Jacob. ”Th...

Nakba #1 - Amena Hassan

28 Dec 2025

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Amman Hassan Banat, born 1931 in Sheikh Damun, Akka, Palestine. Recorded in Bourj el-Barajneh Camp, Beirut, 2019. Photo and interpreter: Mona Bibi Is ...

Det judiska Högalid #23 - Sylvia Kalisher

25 Dec 2025

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- Pappa överlevde Auschwitz, men fick TBC. De opererade bort halva ena lungan och några revben, som han sparade i garderoben. Det var äckligt, säg...

Överlevarna #122/2- Lasse Dencik

19 Dec 2025

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Betraktar du dg som överlevare? - Jag föddes 1941 och hade under andra omständigheter kunnat ha mördats, som många i min familj. På det sätter ...

Överlevarna #121/1- Lasse Dencik

19 Dec 2025

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- En gång bjöd mamma de svenska grannarna på ett kaffekalas. Hon bakade centraleuropeiska kakor, fyllda med vallmo. Men det blev ett väldigt fiask...

Det judiska Högalid #22 - Lennart Mankowitz

12 Dec 2025

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- 1957 blev det skilsmässa. Min mor och jag och bror Paul, kallas Palle, flyttade till Långholmsgatan 24. Min mor gick bort alldeles för ung, jag v...

Det judiska Högalid 21 - Gun Lieberman

05 Dec 2025

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- Jag tror inte mamma kände sig helt accepterad av pappas judiska familj. Min farmor och mina fastrar tyckte att mamma var lite fin av sig. Kommentar...

Det judiska Högalid #20 - Willmar Sauter

28 Nov 2025

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- Jiddischteater är en motståndshandling. Den berättar att vi är här, vi har en historia och en framtid, säger Willmar Sauter.

Det judiska Högalid #19 - Hans Fink

21 Nov 2025

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- Mina morföräldrar, Bernhard och Berta Birnick, var väldigt ortodoxa, väldigt strikt kosher. En gång köpte jag och min kusin räkor i fiskaffä...

Det judiska Högalid #18 - Ulf Sender

14 Nov 2025

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- Mamma lyckades överleva Förintelsen och kom till Sverige. Hon väntade med att berätta vad hon varit med om tills jag var tretton, fjorton år. D...

Det judiska Högalid #17 - Suzanne Kaplan

07 Nov 2025

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- Jag hade inga syskon och bara mina kusiner som var judar. När jag skulle fylla fjorton var jag var Glämsta för första gången. Det förändrade ...

Det judiska Högalid #16 - Elisabeth Tankus Rotschild

31 Oct 2025

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- Min mamma och moster Kicki flyttade upp från Landskrona och startade Klädes-tjänst på Hornsgatan 114. De var i tjugoårsåldern. När Agnon fick...

Det judiska Högalid #15- Rita Lippmann

24 Oct 2025

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Hur kommer det sig att du inte har ett fotoalbum från det du var barn? - Efter mamma gick bort så blev det tjafs om arvet. Och då försvann mycket,...

Det judiska Högalid #14 - Yigael Finkel

17 Oct 2025

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- Jag tyckte att min värld var mycket mer ärofylld. Min pappa var krigshjälte, min mamma hade varit stridande sjuksköterska på slagfältet och mi...

Det judiska Högalid #13 - Lennart Dossel

11 Oct 2025

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- Mamma och pappa gifte sig 1937 i Åmål. Men eftersom pappa var mosaisk godkändes inte giftermålet av svensk lag. En protestant och en jude kunde ...

Det judiska Högalid #12 - Sonja Andersen Siirak

03 Oct 2025

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- Min mormor, Sonja Dossel, fick jobb som ritualbaderska på mikven på Bastugatan. För att få börja jobba krävdes att Rabbin Marcus Ehrenpreis in...

Det judiska Högaliid #11 - Anna Nachman

18 Sep 2025

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- Abraham Olniansky i Lund var religionslärare, kantor och kosherslaktare. Han skickade upp slaktade höns till sina kunder i Stockholm med tåg, sä...

Det judiska Högalid #10 - Berth Samuel

12 Sep 2025

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