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  1. Ruth Salzberg Horwitz papers

    1. Ruth Salzberg Horwitz collection

    The Ruth Salzberg Horwitz papers consist of biographical materials, photographs, and printed materials documenting the Salzberg family of Hamburg, Germany, their immigration to the United States in 1938, and the family members who remained in Europe and were killed in the Holocaust. Biographical materials include identification papers, student records, immigration records, and personal narratives. Photographs depict Ruth and her family and their home in Hamburg. Printed materials primarily document the Salzberg family’s life in the United States.

  6. Peter Briess collection

  7. Abraham family: Copy correspondence

    The copy correspondence in this collection documents the experiences of a German Jewish family in Berlin and England.

  9. Documentação sobre o Alto Comissariado para os refugiados e o acolhimento de refugiados judeus em Portugal

    Documentação referente ao Alto Comissariado para os Refugiados e assuntos relativos à permanência de refugiados em Portugal. Inclui: aide-memoire da Legação dos Estados Unidos da América em Portugal referente ao convite ao Governo Português para participar no Comité Internacional de Refugiados Políticos; telegramas da Embaixada de Portugal em Londres ao Ministério dos Negócios Estrangeiros (MNE) relativo a pedido de prorrogação da extensão do prazo de expulsão de 65 refugiados judeus austríacos de Portugal; telegrama do MNE à Embaixada de Portugal em Londres comunicando a prorrogação do pra...

  10. Generalkonsul Olof Herman Lamms arkiv, B 85

    1. Generalkonsul Olof Herman Lamms arkiv
    • Stockholms Stadsarkiv
    • Generalkonsul Olof Herman Lamms arkiv, B 85
    • English
    • 1938-1948
    • 0,15 linear meters (one box) of textual material.

    File B 85 contains information on Lamm’s and the Swedish Jewish organizations’ endeavors to create post-war relief and rehabilitation. There are also documents relating to efforts to facilitate family reunification for Jewish refugees. Lamm tried to mobilize such initiatives domestically and internationally, proposing various relief measures in 1943 to American Governor Herbert H Lehman, who served as director general of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration. The volume contains Lamm’s correspondence regarding the 1943 Jewish relief memorandum with various prominent pe...

  11. Justitiedepartementet

    • Ministry of Justice
    • Riksarkivet
    • Justitiedepartementet
    • English
    • 1840-1996
    • Textual records.

    Series E1 A and E1 B contain consular files containing the so-called citizenship acts, i.e., applications for Swedish citizenship with accompanying documents. All refugees from Nazi persecution, and Holocaust survivors, who later became Swedish citizens have a citizenship file in the Ministry of Justice's archives. In addition to applications and notifications of citizenship, the files contain all other documentation that the Ministry considered relevant to the decision. In the files are short accounts of personal experiences reproduced in police interrogation reports, biographies, certific...

  12. M.81: Documentation from archives in Kyrgyzstan

    M.81: Documentation from archives in Kyrgyzstan In the Records Group there is documentation regarding evacuees and refugees in Kyrgyzstan during World War II. Additionally, the Records Group contains Chapters 3-6 from the documentary and propaganda series, "The Kyrgyzstan Advisor", which was produced during World War II and told how the people on the Soviet home front were managing with the difficulties of the war. In the Records Group there is also a documentary film regarding the 3,500 children from Leningrad who were evacuated to Kyrgyzstan during the war. There is also "En Route from Ch...

  13. Kanslibyrån

    1. Statens Utlänningskommission
    • Administration Office
    • Riksarkivet
    • Kanslibyrån
    • English
    • 1944-1969
    • 3097 linear meters of mostly textual records.

    The archive includes files and documents concerning refugees and survivors, such as name lists, personal files (central dossiers, control dossiers, and entry dossiers), entry cards, and police interrogation records. For each individual, one or more dossiers were compiled containing documents regarding entry permits (visa dossiers, prior to 1944, managed by the Ministry for Foreign Affairs) and residence and work permits (central dossiers), including applications, police reports, submitted foreign identity papers (if the individual received a Swedish alien passport).

  15. Utrikesdepartementet. Beskickningsarkivet

    • Ministry for Foreign Affairs. Archives of Swedish foreign missions
    • Riksarkivet Täby
    • Utrikesdepartementet. Beskickningsarkivet
    • English
    • 1674

    The embassy archives from Sweden's various missions abroad contain correspondence and diplomatic reports, including reports on the Nazi persecution of Jews and the Holocaust. There are also documents discussing Swedish entry and visa regulations for Jewish refugees. There are also sources dealing with Sweden's involvement in rescue operations in Denmark, Hungary and Germany. The series include the archives of the Swedish legations in Berlin, Vienna, Prague and Budapest.

  16. Collection of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee - AJDC in the Netherlands, 1934-1944

    Collection of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee - AJDC in the Netherlands, 1934-1944 The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, known as the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee - AJDC, was established in the United States in 1914 in order to help the victims of World War I; the head office is located in New York; Included in the collection: Letters and activity reports prepared by the JDC, regarding financial help to victims of the Holocaust, and correspondence by the JDC branch offices in Lisbon and Paris with people and institutions, regarding help to Jews d...

  17. Correspondence of Julius Hüttner

    1. The Jewish Community of Gothenburg

    This collection mainly contains official correspondence between Julius Hüttner and individuals he had contact with as consul general of Costa Rica in Gothenburg. The correspondence comprises typewritten loose papers, mostly in Swedish and Spanish. A few of the letters are in English. The documents are originals, copies, transcripts, and translations of finished letters written in Swedish or Spanish. There are English and Swedish translations of some but not all of the letters in Spanish. All of the dated documents are from between 1941 and 1959. The records without dates are also related to...