Avdelningen för immigration och transmigration och Judiska Transmigrationskommittén

In the fall of 1945, the Refugee Section and its Immigration Department received several questions and requests about the immigration of relatives of refugees and survivors in Sweden. Around the turn of the year 1945/46, applications also began to be received from Jews in Eastern Europe for transit stays in Sweden before onward emigration to other countries. The Jewish Community of Stockholm and the Swedish Section of the World Jewish Congress negotiated a transit quota from the authorities. The community's cases were first handled by the Refugee Section. A special Transmigration Committee (Transmigrationsavdelningen) was established in January 1946. On March 4, an independent committee, Judiska Transmigrationskommittén, was constituted to handle such matters. The committee consisted of representatives of the Jewish Community, the American Joint Distribution Committee, the Jewish Agency, and the World Jewish Congress. On August 28, it was decided to include HIAS as a member of the committee. The committee was chaired by Gunnar Josephson, community chairman, and Dr. Jur. Kurt Stillschweig. The Assembly covered the Committee's administrative costs.

The cases dealt with by the committee concerned both so-called quota cases and transit cases outside the quota. In December 1945, the authorities granted a transit quota for 300 persons, which was soon raised to 400 persons.

In August 1946, a new transit quota was granted for 400 persons, whereby the old quota would cease to be a rolling quota. Transit visas could also be given outside the quota framework if the person concerned could prove that he could leave Sweden shortly after arrival.

The joint office of the Jewish Transmigration Committee and the Immigration and Transmigration Department was headed by Stillschweig. The office was also responsible, on behalf of the Jewish community of Stockholm, for obtaining entry permits for close relatives (kinship cases) of refugees and survivors, and Jewish 'skilled workers'. After 1948, the number of cases decreased sharply; the activities ceased in the early 1950s.

The archive is included as a sub-archive of the Jewish Community Archive, which was deposited with the National Archives in 1983, with several additional deliveries later.