The Karl Tirén joik archive and the Ravensbrück archive at Lund University Library have been designated as world memories by Unesco.
Karl Tirén's joik archive is stored at the Swedish Folk Song Archive and contains Sami joik documented on phonograph and wax cylinders. The archive contains over 300 sound recordings and more than 500 transcribed joiks. It is the first time an indigenous people's cultural expression is designated as a world memory, according to a press release from the National Archives.
The Ravensbrück archive consists of 500 in-depth interviews with Holocaust survivors who came to Sweden with Folke Bernadotte's White Buses in the spring of 1945. The archive also contains personal belongings such as photographs, letters, and textiles that are preserved at Kulturen in Lund.
