Hjälpkommittén för Tysklands judar

  • Hjälpkommittén
  • Hjälpfond för Tysklands judar
  • The Relief Committee
Identifier
Hjälpkommittén för Tysklands judar
Language of Description
English
Level of Description
Fonds
Languages
  • English
  • French
  • German
  • Hebrew
  • Swedish
Scripts
  • Hebrew
  • Latin
Source
EHRI

Extent and Medium

2,2 linear meters of textual records.

Biographical History

The Jewish Community of Stockholm organized its refugee aid and relief work for the Jewish victims of Nazi terror during the years 1933–1940 through a judicially independent committee, the Relief Committee for the Jews of Germany (Hjälpkommittén för Tysklands judar). The committee was reorganized in 1941, coopted by the community as a sub-department of its regular poor relief department, and labeled the Refugee Section (see separate archive description). The Relief Committee was governed by a board consisting of the five members of the community's executive board and two rabbis.

Archival History

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

Scope and Content

The archive of the Relief Committee contains the record of the committee and some of its sub-departments. However, specific protocols, all personal dossiers, and other non-chronologically ordered correspondence have been transferred to the Refugee Section's archive. The archive from the Children's Department, established in 1938, has been cataloged as a separate archive along with the documents from the Refugee Section's Children's Department (up to 1948).

Some documents from the Relief Committee and Refugee Section can also be found in other archives, such as those of Chief Rabbi Marcus Ehrenpreis. Correspondence and scattered documents from 1938–1945 from the Relief Committee's and Refugee Section's archives are available on microfilm in series K4 in the Image and Photo Collection. In the protocol series A1, among others, are the Relief Committee's protocols from 1933 to 1940, the Poor Relief Department's protocols from 1937 to 1940, and the Emigration Committee's protocols from 1938 to March 17, 1940. Also included is a draft protocol for the January 13, 1940, meeting with representatives from the Relief Committee of the Jewish Community of Stockholm and the leaders of a boarding school for Jewish refugee children, Landschulheim Kristinehov. In series A2, there are drafts of protocols and materials for meetings from 1933–1940. The archive's correspondence series (E) contains correspondence with private individuals and organizations. These include relief organizations and Jewish communities in Germany and Germany-occupied countries, as well as with foreign aid organizations about relief efforts. The series also contains correspondence with Swedish authorities, including applications/opinions to the National Board of Welfare, messages from the National Board of Welfare and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Volume F4: 1 contains essential documents, memos, and reports about the Aid Committee's activities.

System of Arrangement

The archive is structured in three series. The A-series is the protocols and minutes from meetings with appendices. The E-series contains correspondence, and the F-series all other records.

Conditions Governing Access

Access to the archive must be approved by the general secretary of the Jewish Community of Stockholm. The application form can be found on the community’s website: https://jfst.se/fler-tjaenster/oevriga-tjaenster/slaekt-och-personforskning/

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Rules and Conventions

EHRI Guidelines for Description v.1.0