Hédi Fried

Hédi Fried (née Szmuk; 15 June 1924 – 19 November 2022) was a Swedish-Romanian-Hungarian author and psychologist.^[1][2] A Holocaust survivor, she passed through Auschwitz as well as Bergen-Belsen,^[3] coming to Sweden in July 1945 with the boat M/S Rönnskär.^[4]

Hédi Fried
Fried in 2015
Born	Hédi Szmuk (1924-06-15)15 June 1924 Sighet, Romania
Died	19 November 2022(2022-11-19) (aged 98) Stockholm, Sweden
Occupation(s)	Writer, psychologist

Fried died in November 2022, at the age of 98.^[5][6][7]

Awards

• The Seraphim Medal (Sweden: 2019)^[8][9]
• The Medal Illis Quorum in gold of the 8th size (Sweden; 1998)
• Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (2017)^[10]
• Knight of the Order of the Star of Romania (2016)^[11]
• The Swedish Europe-movement award European of the Year (1997)
• Natur & Kultur Culture Award (1998)
• Swedish Peace and Arbitration Society's Eldh-Ekblad Peace Prize (1999)^[12]
• Honorary Doctor of Stockholm University (2002)
• Raoul Wallenberg Academy's award Raoul Wallenberg Prize (2015)
• Olof Palme Prize from the Olof Palme Memorial Fund (2017)

Books of Hédi Fried

• 1992 – Skärvor av ett liv. Vägen till och från Auschwitz, Natur & Kultur, ISBN 91-27-02963-8
• 1995 – Livet tillbaka, Natur & Kultur, ISBN 91-27-05353-9
• 2002 – Ett tredje liv: från jordbävning i själen till meningsfull tillvaro, Natur & Kultur, ISBN 91-27-09280-1
• 2003 – Livets pendel. Fragment, erfarenheter, insikter, Lärarhandledning Natur & Kultur, ISBN 91-27-09398-0
• 2017 – Frågor jag fått om Förintelsen, Natur & Kultur, ISBN 978-91-27-15085-0
• 2019 – Historien om Bodri, Natur & Kultur, ISBN 978-91-27-16125-2

References

1. MacKenzie, Steven (25 January 2019). "Holocaust survivor Hédi Fried: 'Why aren't you thinking with your heart?'". The Big Issue. Archived from the original on 20 November 2022. Retrieved 20 November 2022.
2. Larsson, Thomas (22 January 2015). "Överlevande från Auschwitz: "Jag blir arg, för det händer igen"". SVT Nyheter. Archived from the original on 10 August 2015. Retrieved 20 July 2015.
3. "Holocaust survivor and grandchild of Nazis speak out against hate and racism". The Local. 21 March 2018. Archived from the original on 20 November 2022. Retrieved 20 November 2022.
4. "I dag är jag rädd igen". Dagens Nyheter. 21 January 2015. Archived from the original on 7 June 2015. Retrieved 20 July 2015.
5. "Hédi Fried har avlidit". SVT Nyheter (in Swedish). 20 November 2022. Retrieved 21 February 2024.
6. "Hédi Fried är död – blev 98 år". Dagens Nyheter. 20 November 2022. Archived from the original on 1 December 2022. Retrieved 1 March 2023.
7. "Korn: Hédi Fried gav livsmod genom sin tro på det goda". bulletin.nu. Archived from the original on 27 November 2022. Retrieved 1 March 2023.
8. "Medaljförläningar 28 januari 2019". Sveriges Kungahus. Archived from the original on 29 January 2019. Retrieved 28 January 2019.
9. "Kungen delade ut medaljer". Sveriges Kungahus. Archived from the original on 21 November 2021. Retrieved 13 February 2019.
10. Dr. Hans-Jürgen Heimsoeth (1 March 2017). "Tal vid överlämnande av "Förbundsrepubliken Tysklands Förtjänstkors I. Klass" till Hédi Fried den 1 mars 2017" [Speech on the submission of "Federal Republic of Germany Merit Cross Class I" to Hédi Fried on March 1, 2017]. Deutsche Botschaft Stockholm (in Swedish). German Embassy in Stockholm. Archived from the original on 14 October 2017. Retrieved 15 October 2018.
11. "En kväll tillägnad Minnesdagen för Förintelsens offer på Rumänska kulturinstitutet i Stockholm". Rumänska kulturistitutet. 26 January 2016. Archived from the original on 18 July 2018. Retrieved 15 October 2018.
12. "Hédi Fried och Anita Dorazio tilldelade Svenska Freds- och Skiljedomsföreningens utmärkelse Eldh-Ekblads fredspris" [Hédi Fried and Anita Dorazio awarded the Swedish Peace and Arbitration Society's Eldh-Ekblad Peace Prize]. Svenska Dagbladet (in Swedish). 23 May 1999. p. 6. Archived from the original on 19 June 2018. Retrieved 18 June 2018.

External links

• Media related to Hédi Fried at Wikimedia Commons