Efterforskningsavdelningen
- Kontrollbyråns efterforskningsavdelning
- Tracing Department
- Statens utlänningskommission Kontrollbyrån Efterforskningsavdelningen
Extent and Medium
13 linear meters of textual records.
Biographical History
The archive belongs to the Control Office's special Tracing Department (Kontrollbyråns Efterforskningsavdelning) in October 1945.
The Tracing Department's task was to collaborate with other national tracing bureaus and the International Red Cross to assist refugees and displaced persons, including Holocaust survivors, in contacting surviving family members, other relatives and friends.
Scope and Content
The archive includes correspondence with foreign relief organizations and tracing agencies, and registries and lists of names of individuals who came to Sweden with the assistance of the Red Cross in the spring of 1945 and the so-called UNRRA-transports of July 1945. The archive contains separate registries of Polish and Danish citizens as well as of Jews. The Swedish Red Cross' archive in the National Archives in Täby hold duplicates of these registries.
The archive also includes personal files from 1945 to 1947, transmitted to the State Foreigners Commission in the spring of 1947 from the UN Relief and Rehabilitation Administration's Central Tracing Bureau in Arolsen. These documents were organized according to the numerical system employed by the UN Relief and Rehabilitation Administration.
Conditions Governing Access
The National Archive considers confidentiality issues from case to case before giving access to documents from the archive. Some documents in the archive may still be classified to protect the personal integrity of individuals.
Rules and Conventions
EHRI Guidelines for Description v.1.0