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  2. Statens utlänningskommission Passbyrån

    1. Statens Utlänningskommission
    • Passbyrån
    • Passport Office
    • Riksarkivet
    • Statens utlänningskommission, Passbyrån
    • English
    • 1917-1952
    • 144,5 linear meters of textual records.

    The archive includes 66 volumes containing entry cards for the registration of foreigners (including Holocaust survivors) who arrived in Sweden through the Red Cross and UNRRA in 1945. These cards generally have notations regarding Swedish placement in camps, departures, and other details. They are divided into three series: one for refugees who remained in Sweden as of 1946, one for deceased individuals from 1945 to 1946, and one series of departed refugees organized by nationality. Additionally, there are police interrogation records for refugees who did not have a so-called 'central doss...

  3. On the Borders - Bulletin No. 3

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    This bulletin was intended to publish the work of the Committee for collecting material about the destruction of the Jews in Poland, describing the conditions around and at the borders. The bulletin collects fragments of testimonies from several cities and towns that found themselves on the border between the German and Russian occupied territories. Among them Sierpc, Ostrów Mazowiecka, Wysokie Mazowieckie and Brok. They bulletin mentions eviction proclamations to Jewish populations living around the border, as well as perilous illegal crossing of the border to the Russian side. Testimonies...

  4. [Memorandum of Cecil Roth Concerning the Situation of Italian Jewry in 1939]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    Cecil Roth gives a personal analysis on the situation of the Italian Jews under fascist rule and to the state of anti-Semitism towards them. In his eyes it is not as much a popular widely spread sentiment as in Germany, but an anti-Semitism that has been ordered from "above". And even so, anti-Semitism in Italy does not spring from a genuine, latent feeling thereof, but of political necessity and Italian interests, mainly the Axis Berlin-Rom, which demands Italy to pursue anti-Semitic legislation and policies. The varying types of Jewish residents in Italy, genuine Italian Jews and Jewish r...

  5. [List of eyewitness reports sent to or from DALJEWCIB in Shanghai and the Jewish Relief Organisation in Berlin concerning the sociopolitical and socioeconomic situation of Jewish emigrees in the Far East]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    List of eyewitness reports sent to DALJEWCIB in Shanghai and from the Jewish Relief Organisation in Berlin from Jewish emigrees concerning the sociopolitical and socioeconomic situation of Jewish emigrees in the Far East. Reports have been written in the form of official telegraphs, personal correspondence and letters regarding living conditions in Shanghai and Dairen/Harbin. Some cover dire living conditions and call for a stop of Jewish emigration to Shanghai, others call friends and family to join them in Shanghai despite the poor living conditions and the prospect of unemployement and d...

  6. World Jewish Congress reports

    1. Research files: research conducted by the JCIO and the Wiener Library

    The file contains two copies, in German and in French, of a circular letter from the World Jewish Congress reporting about its main events and actions during the months of October and November 1939. They relate to its own international organization and also to political issues concerning the problem of the refugees in Europe, which was submitted to the Intergovernmental Committee for the Refugees. The letters also give information on negotiations for the organization of a rescue operation for the Jews in Poland, on the situation of the population in the territories occupied by the Russians,...

  7. Theodor Oberländer

    • Theodor Oberlaender

    A Nazi expert on "Ostforschung", research of European areas to the East of Germany. After the war served in the West German government as Federal Minister for Displaced Persons, Refugees and Victims of War.

  8. Lelio Vittorio Valobra

    • לליו ויטוריו ולוברה
    • Valobra, Lelio Vittorio

    Jewish activist; head of the DELASEM, the relief organization for refugees of the Jewish communities in Italy

  9. UNRRA Council plans belief of world's needy

    Delegates and the UNRRA meeting in Jersey City, NJ. Herbert Lehman speaks on international understanding.

  20. Sofie Kahn: Red Cross letters

    Red Cross letters to Sofie Cahn, from her parents in Rheydt, Germany