Riksarkivet

• Utlänningskommissionen
• SUK
• State Foreigners Commission

• Riksarkivet
• Statens Utlänningskommission
• English
• 1916-1976
• Approx. 3500 linear meters of mainly textual records.
• Updated 5 days ago

The archive contains records with information about virtually all foreigners who resided in Sweden during the period of Nazi Germany's persecution and the Holocaust, as well as about survivors from the Holocaust who arrived in Sweden towards the end of the war and after the war. These documents are held in the National Archives (in Marieberg in central Stockholm) if the individual acquired Swedish citizenship, died in Sweden before 1971, or left Sweden before 1972 without becoming a Swedish citizen. If the individual remained in Sweden as a non-Swedish citizen in 1971/72, their files are he...

• National Board of Welfare
• National Board of Social Affairs

• Riksarkivet
• Socialstyrelsen
• English
• 1912-2005
• 2227,3 linear meters of mostly textual records and statistics.
• Updated 5 days ago

There are four different sub-archives in the National Board of Welfare's archive holding records from the handling of Holocaust refugees and survivors coming to Sweden: (1.) The archive of the Bureau for Social Affairs in General (Byrån för sociala ärenden i allmänhet, 1:a byrån), 1st Bureau: Foreigners Affairs. It contains minutes, letters, reports and correspondence relating to refugees and other foreigners up to 1939. The F series contains personal files on foreign nationals, including refugees from Nazi Germany. The 1st bureau's tasks were taken over in 1938 by the (2.) Foreigners Burea...

• National Board of Health

• Riksarkivet
• Medicinalstyrelsen
• English
• 1868-1967
• Updated 4 days ago

The Medical Board's archives include documents relating to the care of concentration camp survivors who came to Sweden in 1945 through the Red Cross and the UNRRA operation. There are documents relating to patients, hospitals, camps and staff. The National Board's archive, 1945 refugee health care includes the series _ Medical index cards regarding refugees_ (Läkarkort rörande flyktingar) D 2. The series contains 16 boxes of medical cards of survivors, and documents from certain immigration centers and emergency hospitals, patient registers and patient rolls from various emergency hospita...

• Riksarkivet
• SE/RA/730128
• English, Swedish
• 1771-2000
• Updated 1 month ago

• Ingeborg Herlitz' arkiv

• Riksarkivet
• SE/RA/720461
• English
• 1945-1952
• 0.3 linear metres (4 volumes) Textual material
• Updated 1 month ago

The four volumes that make up the personal archive of Ingeborg Herlitz contain various documents related to her work at Lärbro military hospital in Gotland, where Herlitz served as a health counselor to former prisoners of concentration camps suffering from tuberculosis. Herlitz maintained correspondence with a notable number of Jewish survivors whom she cared for during her service at Lärbro Hospital, hailing from such countries as Germany, Greece, Poland, and Italy. The letters in the volumes contain information on her patients’ whereabouts following their departure from Lärbro, providing...

• Gunnar Josephson's archive

• Riksarkivet
• Gunnar Josephsons arkiv
• English
• 1920-1971
• 0,2 linear meters of textual records and photographs.
• Updated 4 days ago

The archive consists of a box of correspondence, including correspondence with Archbishop Erling Eidem about his response to the deportations of Norwegian Jews. The collection also contains correspondence with and about Salomon Adler-Rudel (1894-1975), a German-Jewish refugee worker in exile in London, concerning his rescue activities in Sweden, as well as an exchange of letters between Josephson and the German-Jewish lawyer in exile, Hans Schäffer (1886-1967). The collection also includes a memo with Josephson's critical reflections on a 1933 meeting on Jewish assimilation as a strategy to...

• Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs
• UD

• Riksarkivet
• Utrikesdepartementet
• English
• 1791
• Updated 3 weeks ago