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  8. Statens utlänningskommission Sociala byrån

    1. Statens Utlänningskommission
    • Sociala Byrån
    • Social Office
    • Riksarkivet
    • Statens utlänningskommission Sociala byrån
    • English
    • 1944-1947
    • 14,5 linear meters of textual records and photographs in archive boxes.

    This archive comprises directories and documents detailing refugee camps and other accommodation and care facilities where survivors of the Holocaust were placed upon their arrival in Sweden. The sub-series F3 Documents regarding children (Handlingar rörande barn) contains records concerning children among the survivors transported to Sweden in 1945, of whom many were afflicted with tuberculosis.

  16. Gitta L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Gitte L., who was born in Vilna in 1893. Mrs. L. recalls the outbreak of World War I after her graduation from gymnasium; her training and years of work as a nurse in refugee camps; studying at the University of Leningrad; and her emigration to Vienna to marry her fiance?. She tells of her political activity in Vienna; antisemitism; Kristallnacht in Sassnitz, when her husband was beaten by a mob and interrogated, and she was imprisoned with him (but released after a short time); her husband's escape with the help of a Nazi soldier; their emigration to the United State...

  17. Gertrude M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Gertrude M., who was born in Germany in 1915. In addition to information included in a previously cataloged testimony (HVT-1368), Ms. M. recalls living in Hilversum after German invasion of the Netherlands; a non-Jewish friend arranging her hiding place in Haarlem; and staying there from August 1942 to January 1943. She notes improved communications today enable people to help during genocides such as in Cambodia.