Parlamentariska undersökningskommittén ang flyktingsärenden och säkerhetstjänst
- State commission on the treatment of refugees and the intelligence service
- Sandlerkommissionen
Extent and Medium
57 volumes of textual records.
Biographical History
After the Second World War, the Swedish war-time refugee policy was debated, and a state expert commission (YK 984), led by former Minister of Foreign Affairs Rickard Sandler, was set up to investigate the activities of the Swedish Security Service and Sweden's refugee affairs during the war.
In addition to Sandler, the Sandler Commission included the Social Democrat Georg Branting, Gunnar Hedlund of the Agrarian Party, the Liberal Gustav Mosesson, and Ivar Sefve of the Conservative Party. The commission presented its reports, criticizing the Security Service and reporting on complaints against its actions.
The commission archive is preserved in the National Archives in Stockholm (Marieberg). Copies of documents submitted to the commission are also in the archive of the Jewish Community in Stockholm in the National Archives in Täby, in volume no E 2: 12.
Scope and Content
The archive contains 57 volumes of archive documents from the commission's assignments during the period 1945-1947. The series Personakter till anmälningsdiariet (F: 2) contains 390 files containing reports and other documents with information about refugee cases reported by aid organizations and private individuals because they were treated incorrectly by the authorities when they tried to come to or stay in Sweden as refugees. Many of these were Jews. There is an index of the files in volume C: 1. A selection of the reported cases is also summarized anonymously in the commission's report (SOU 1946:36). Among the files are several notable cases.
Conditions Governing Access
The archive is accessible to the public.
Sources
The National Archive's Database (NAD): https://sok.riksarkivet.se/arkiv/rosNeBUQrH6d0002H087k3
Carlsson, Carl Henrik. Källor till judarnas historia i Sverige: arkivguide. Skrifter utgivna av Riksarkivet 44. Täby: Riksarkivet, 2022, p. 156.
Parlamentariska undersökningskommissionen angående flyktingärenden och säkerhetstjänst, Parlamentariska undersökningskommissionen angående flyktingärenden och säkerhetstjänst I. Betänkande angående flyktingars behandling SOU 1946:36. Stockholm, 1946.
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