Statens Utlänningskommission

• Kontrollbyråns efterforskningsavdelning
• Tracing Department
• Statens utlänningskommission Kontrollbyrån Efterforskningsavdelningen

• Riksarkivet
• Efterforskningsavdelningen
• English
• 1945-1952
• 13 linear meters of textual records.
• Updated 1 month ago

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...

• Administration Office

• Riksarkivet
• Kanslibyrån
• English
• 1944-1969
• 3097 linear meters of mostly textual records.
• Updated 1 month ago

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).

• Sociala Byrån
• Social Office

• Riksarkivet
• Statens utlänningskommission Sociala byrån
• English
• 1944-1947
• 14,5 linear meters of textual records and photographs in archive boxes.
• Updated 1 month ago

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.

• Andra Världskrigets lägerarkiv
• World War II camp archives

• Riksarkivet
• Statens utlänningskommission, Andra världskrigets lägerarkiv
• English
• 1940-1948
• 74 linear meters of textual records.
• Updated 1 month ago

The archives of the foreigner camps operated by the State Foreigners Commission comprise 74 linear meters of textual records. They are organized by camp, according to the names of 111 camps, along with a series of ten volumes containing documents regarding various smaller camps. For instance, among the series of named camps are eight volumes on Doverstorp, 13 volumes on Robertshöjd I and II, 23 volumes on Rosöga, and four volumes on Skatås. These archives include indexes and brief registries detailing the refugees and survivors present in the camps, providing information such as nationality...

• Hemliga arkivet
• Classified Archive

• Riksarkivet
• Statens utlänningskommission, Hemliga arkivet
• English
• 1916-1976
• 131,5 linear meters of textual records.
• Updated 1 month ago

The archive contains classified records with information about foreigners who entered Sweden from 1917, and resided in the country from 1920. The archive includes records of foreigners from the period of Nazi Germany's persecution and the Holocaust, as well as about survivors from the Holocaust who arrived in Sweden towards the end of the war and after the war. The archive includes protocols, minutes, correspondence, registries and lists, correspondence and individual files on foreigners, including Holocaust refugees and survivors, and perpetrators.

• Passbyrån
• Passport Office

• Riksarkivet
• Statens utlänningskommission, Passbyrån
• English
• 1917-1952
• 144,5 linear meters of textual records.
• Updated 1 month ago

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...