The dog with a red silk ribbon

The dog with a red silk ribbon – from memory to cultural heritage

The dog with a red silk ribbon – from memory to cultural heritage is an exhibition with artefacts from the Holocaust. 

Wherever we find ourselves in history, the Holocaust affects us. There is a sharp before and after to such a prodigious and cataclysmic event. The Holocaust influences how we understand both the present, the future, and the past.

The Jewish Museum is, in itself, a result of this human catastrophe. The collection arose in an attempt to preserve Jewish civilization at a time when this lay in ruins. Objects, narratives and archival materials were donated to the museum. The little black dog with the red silk ribbon, in all its simplicity, testifies to different perspectives on the Holocaust and how we interpret them today.

The dog with a red silk ribbon – from memory to cultural heritage

A theater program for survivors, ghetto currency from the ghetto in Lodz, a Zionist flag that has belonged to Hechalutz Sweden, newspapers by and for children who came to Sweden as part of the child quota and gifts for doctors and nurses that cared for survivors in Sweden are some of the objects that are part of the exhibition. They carry important stories about a Jewish culture that disappeared. But was reestablished in Sweden and is now on display at the Jewish Museum as part of our common cultural heritage.