Barnavdelningen

After the November 1938 pogrom, the Jewish Community of Stockholm negotiated with the Swedish authorities and government to receive a number of children, as part of the Kindertransport through which Jewish children from Germany and Austria were rescued to the UK and other countries. In total, the Swedish quota came to include 500 Jewish children. To administer the reception and care of the children, a special committee was formed, which from spring 1938 was called the Children's Department. It was made responsible for the placement and care of the children and ran boarding schools and orphanages in Sweden, provided grants to foster families and provided financial and advisory support for the children in terms of education and vocational training.

In 1941, the Jewish Community's Refugee Section coopted the Children's Department and other sub-divisions of the Relief Committee. In 1945, the Children's Section also became involved in caring for survivor children in boarding schools and juvenile homes, established by the State Foreigners Commission.

When the Refugee Section was reorganized on 1 October 1948, the Children's Department ceased to exist. Most of its remaining tasks relating to the homes were transferred to the General Section of the Board of Support.

The archive is organized as an individual sub-archive of the Jewish Community's archive, which was deposited with the National Archives in 1983, with several additional deliveries later.