URO - United Restitution Organization

• Hans Michaeli's collection

• Judiska Museet
• Hans Michaelis samling
• English
• 1935-1967
• 0.1 linear metres (1 large archive box)
• Updated 6 months ago

Hans Michaeli’s papers comprise one box of documents covering the period 1935-1967, primarily documents left by his father Wilhelm Michaeli, a German Jewish legal expert, and his work helping refugees for the Jewish Community of Stockholm. However, there is also material concerning Hans’s mother, Sophie Michaeli, and her work as director of the Tullgarn boys’ home in Uppsala. The archive includes various circular letters about raising money for Hjälpfond för Tysklands judar (Relief Fund for the Jews of Germany) (May and November 1933), the Jewish Community of Stockholm’s emergency relief ...

1. Jewish Community of Stockholm

• URO Legal Aid Office

• Riksarkivet Täby
• URO-byrån för rättshjälp
• English
• 1953-1975
• 53,3 linear meters of textual material.
• Updated 6 months ago

The archive contains a card index to compensation cases from 1953 to 1975 and over 600 personal files with several thousand compensation cases in the same period. The claims files contain both standardized personal data about the clients, such as age, gender, origin, religious affiliation, and information about the crimes they suffered at the hands of the Nazi regime in Germany. The applications also contain testimonies written by the applicants about the crimes they suffered. These accounts are detailed but often very factual and concise as they are shaped by the legal process in which the...