Registreringsavdelningen

On 22 May 1944, the Jewish Community of Stockholm council decided on a grant of SEK 5,000 for planned registration work. The community board had already discussed the proposal on 20 January 1944. The intention was to register Jews in Germany and the occupied countries who were known to people in Sweden to support Jewish post-war reconstruction. The committee started the registration work in the summer of 1944 by having community members and others fill out forms.

When the community council appointed a foreign and post-war aid committee at its 15 February 1945 meeting, it appointed a working committee to carry out registration work. In November 1945, the committee's Registreringsavdelning (Registration Department) was added, whose tasks included registering refugees in Sweden and tracing their relatives. When the committee was dissolved at the end of 1946, the department was placed under Flyktingsektionen (Refugee Section). When the administration of refugee aid was reorganized on 1 October 1948, the Registration Department ceased to exist. Its tasks of registration and research were placed under the working committee of Inkomna fr.o.m. år 1945 (Arrivals from 1945 and onwards), the documents from which are in the archives of Flyktingsektionen.