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Lee County issued the following announcement on Sept. 28.

The exhibition “Ravensbrück – We Who Lived There” will be displayed in two Lee County Library System branches.

The display, in both English and Swedish, was created by high school students in the Advanced History Program and the IB Diploma Program at Katedralskolan in Lund, Sweden. 

The exhibition is brought to the U.S. by Better Futures Foundation, a Sarasota-based non-profit. “The Library System is honored to be able to host this exhibit which sheds light on 

the personal experiences of liberated Holocaust survivors,” Library Director Mindi Simon said.

Patrons can view the traveling exhibit at the following libraries:

October 2021

East County Regional Library

881 Gunnery Road N., Lehigh Acres, FL 33971

November 2021

Northwest Regional Library

519 Chiquita Blvd. N., Cape Coral, FL 33993

“Based on interviews that took place immediately after the liberation of Holocaust victims to Malmo, Sweden, this exhibit provides insight into all aspects of life in Ravensbrück - a 

concentration camp only for women and children,” says Richard Ohlsson, President of Better Futures. “General knowledge about the Holocaust becomes less abstract and less 

theoretical when the women's stories from arrival and through the liberation of Ravensbrück are told.” Toward the end of World War II, approximately 20,000 Nazi concentration 

camp survivors were evacuated to Sweden. With the

intent of documenting the war crimes and the experiences of the victims, a working group called “The Polish Research Institute in Lund” was founded to conduct in-depth interviews 

with the former prisoners and collect material that the survivors had brought with them from the camps. This exhibit is the resulting presentation of this unique collection of source 

material from the survivors of Ravensbrück and other Nazi concentration camps. More info can be found at: https://www.ub.lu.se/witnessing-genocide To further explore this story, 

visit the FGCU Archives and Special Collections digital exhibition “To Life: The Liberation of Ravensbrück” at https://www.fgcu.edu/tolifeexhibit/.

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