Raol Wallenberg

Australia paid tribute on Monday to Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, who saved thousands of Jews during World War II, by making him the country's first honorary Citizen.



Raoul Wallenberg  was born August 4, 1912 July 17, 1947. He was a Swedish architect, businessman, diplomat and humanitarian. He rescued tens of thousands to about one hundred thousand Jews in Nazi-occupied Hungary during the Holocaust from Hungarian Fascists and the Nazis during the later stages of World War II. While serving as Sweden's special envoy in Budapest between July and December 1944, Wallenberg issued protective passports and sheltered Jews in buildings designated as Swedish territory saving tens of thousands of lives.

 

January 17, 1945, Wallenberg was detained by Soviet authorities on suspicion of espionage and subsequently disappeared. He was later reported dead on July 17, 1947, while imprisoned in the Lubyanka, a building located in Moscow, Russia, housing both the KGB headquarters and its affiliated prison.  Sourze: Wikipedia

Princess Lilian: The miner's daughter who became Swedish royalty's grand old lady

"Princess Lilian died peacefully during the afternoon in her home on Djurgården inStockholm," the statement read.

Roger Lundgren, royal expert and editor of Kungliga Magazine called Princess Lilian a "beloved royal" who was "very, very close" with the royal family.

"She was the grandmother the royal children never had, that's what Lilian was. All of them just adored her," he told the TT news agency.

Princess Lilian was born on August 30th, 1915 in Swansea, South Wales. She had a first marriage to actor Ivan Craig which ended in divorce in 1945.

She worked as a fashion model before taking a job in a factory during in the early years of World War II.

The miner's daughter who became Swedish royalty's grand old lady

The Swedish Fika

52 minutes. That’s what the average Swede spends on fika every day. Fika, for those of you who don’t know, means coffee and something little to eat (a cinnamon bun is classic fika food). Twenty-one of those minutes are spent on fika at work, and then 31 minutes on fika outside work.

There’s a difference among age groups, however: For those in the 15-35 age bracket, fika at work takes over 26 minutes, whereas those between ages 56-60, takes 18 minutes. Women take a three minute longer fika than men, though men take fika more often. There are also regional differences: Folks in Stockholm take the least fika breaks during the day—only 1.4—while people in the north say they take two fika breaks a day. It takes a lot for a Swede not to fika: One of five says they’d skip important household duties in order to fika. Thirty-four percent in the ages 15-22 said they’d let go of work in order to get their fika break. And now it has been revealed what Swedes talk about over fika: Almost 50 percent of the people asked said they’d rather discuss news, followed by family and relationship issues. Eight percent said they’d rather discuss vacation plans and just as many talk about sports. When it comes to gossip over the fika table, Swedes prefer to talk about their colleagues and celebrities. Fourteen percent said they gossip about their friends.
The topic of conversation during fika has of course lots to do with whom we have a fika break with. And according to the poll, most Swedes want to fika with their friends and family but avoid doing so with their boss. Less than one percent say they’d rather have a cup of coffee with the boss or the neighbor.

Article from : Nordstjernan.com

10 innovations you didnt know were Swedish - Follow Sweden - The Local

10 innovations you didnt know were Swedish - Follow Sweden - The Local

Swedish parents want to have many children - Radio Sweden

Swedish parents prefer to have a mix of boys and girls as offspring, according to a study from Statistics Sweden. And parents who have two children of the same sex more often have a third child, especially if their first two children are boys.

"If the parents are a man and a woman it's likely that they want to have a child so they can project themselves," says Gunnar Andersson, a demographer at Stockholm University, to Swedish Radio News. "These couples want both boys and girls".

The study's findings are not unique to Sweden, but results vary from country to country when it comes to whether it is two boys or two girls that cause a family to have another child.

Swedish parents want to have many children - Radio Sweden

Lasse Hallström and Lena Olin

The new Swedish movie “The Hypnotist”, based on a thriller in the Stieg Larsson Millennium tradition, is this year’s Swedish entry for nomination as the Best Foreign Film at the Academy Awards, but attracting even more attention is the fact that it is directed by Lasse Hallström, filming again in Sweden for the first time in 25 years.

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The Swedes

 Swedes healthier but many still overweight

More Swedes have quit smoking but inactive lifestyles and fatty foods continue to pose a health threat.


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