The Swenson Swedish Immigration Research Center (located at Augustana College in Rock Island, IL) is a national library and archives providing resources for the study of Swedish immigration to North America. We also help people research their Swedish-American genealogy.
Make an appointment by emailing or calling 309-794-7204. Location and hours.
Enter your email and we will keep you up to date!
Augustana College will host a one-day symposium, “Dealing with the Past in the Present: Swedish Experiences of World War II and the Holocaust” on Oct. 26.
The Augustana Historical Society has launched an initiative to make the Society’s books freely available through Augustana College’s online Digital Commons.
Ola Larsmo, author of the recent best-selling novel "Swede Hollow," will deliver the Swenson Center's annual O. Fritiof Ander Lecture in Immigration History.
This 76-minute film is about Jewish survivors arriving from the concentration camps in Malmö, Sweden after the war. Original footage is combined with narration from the survivors themselves.
This one-day symposium will bring three leading historians from Sweden to discuss how neutral Sweden dealt with the war, the question of Jewish refugees and the memory of the war, and repercussions of the Holocaust in Sweden up to the present time.
The Swenson Swedish Immigration Research Center at Augustana will join libraries, archives and museums from around the area at the Quad Cities Archives Fair.
