According to the city archivist Jonas Engardt, many of the employees took it badly.
It was about both flags and catalogue texts about current issues, he says to UNT.
Shortly before Christmas, the creators of the exhibition, Anna Franklin and Erika Bengtsdotter, were asked to redo the exhibition – otherwise it would not take place. The requirement was to remove the swastika flag, a Hungarian arrow cross flag, and texts where Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orbán was compared to Hitler and Turkey was described as a dictatorship.
But the creators did not want to make so many changes.
We were faced with an ultimatum and it gave us no choice so late in the process, says Anna Franklin to Dagens Nyheter.
"Room for Resistance" was exhibited for the first time in 2021. It depicts the efforts of the couple Valdemar and Nina Langlet to rescue people in Budapest from the Nazis in 1944.
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