World War II Commemorations in
Sweden in 2008
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In Sweden: |
WWI Commemorations |
Throughout Sweden - 27 Januar
Holocaust Memorial Day.
See website: http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/holocaust/timeline.html
One of the "white buses" of the Swedish Red Cross which transported
about 27.000 inmates
of nazi concentration camps to Sweden in March-May 1945.
Göteborg
- 11 November at 11.00 a.m.
Remembrance Sunday Service at St.
Andrews Anglican Church followed by a wreath-laying ceremony at the Commonwealth
War Graves at Kviberg Cemetery.
Info: The Anglican Chaplain. Norra
Liden 15,-S-411 18 Göteborg
T. & Fax: +46-31-711 19 15.
E-mail: st.andrews.gothenburg@tripnet.se
Stockholm
- 11 November at 10.50 a.m.
Remembrance Sunday Service at St.
Peter and St Sigfrid Anglican Church.
Info: St Peter and St Sigfrid
church, Styrmansg. 1, 114 54 Stockholm.
T: +46-8 663 82 48. Fax: +46-8 663
82 48.
E-mail: Stockholm.Anglican@chello.se
Röstånga - 17/18 June 2009
Remembrance and wreath-laying ceremony at the Knutshög memorial
(inaugurated in 1959) in memory of the crew, of which two died in this spot, of
an American Liberator B-24 bomber plane which crashed here on 20 June, 1944.
Inscription on the stone: "De kommo over haven, kämpade för friheten, fallo i
främmande land". ("They came over the sea, they fought for freedom, they fell
in a foreign country").
Info: Röstånga Hembygdsföreningen, S-260 24
Röstånga.
T.: +46-435-910 81.
Info:
Gösta Nilsson. Billingevägen 6, Box 60, S-260 24 Rostänga.
Website
of Belgian National Remembrance Committe
