The Jewish Community of Gothenburg

• Handlingar ang Flyktingkontorets i Göteborg verksamhet

• Regionarkivet för Västra Götalandsregionen och Göteborgs Stad
• Judiska församlingen i Göteborg, E 10
• English
• 1949-1956
• A folder (within file E 5) containing textual material.
• Updated 4 weeks ago

File E10 (in fact, part of volume E 5) contains a few records, ten documents, concerning the activities of the Refugee Office of Gothenburg (Flyktingkontoret i Göteborg) between 1949 and 1956. Most of the documents are accounts of the office’s activities and calculations of how many refugees have emigrated to different countries, such as the USA. There is also documentation regarding the office (Stigbergstorget 4, Gothenburg) and the director (Dr Otto Schütz).

• Handlingar ang hjälp åt danska flyktingar (1943-1946)

• Regionarkivet för Västra Götalandsregionen och Göteborgs Stad
• Judiska församlingen i Göteborg, E 11
• English
• 1943-1946
• 0,15 linear meters (one box) of textual material.
• Updated 4 weeks ago

E11 contains records concerning different forms of aid for Danish refugees between 1943 and 1946. All of the records are in either Danish or Swedish. The records are accounts of different forms of relief for Jewish refugees from Denmark, including descriptions of the Danish school in Gothenburg and accounts of how Danish Jewish students were aided in finishing their higher education while in exile in Sweden. There are also descriptions of how the different forms of aid changed over time. These descriptions also state that E. M. Weis was appointed manager of refugee aid. Other board members ...

• Handlingar ang American Jewish Joint Distribution Committees flyktingverksamhet (1945-1957)

• Regionarkivet för Västra Götalandsregionen och Göteborgs Stad
• Judiska församlingen i Göteborg, E 12
• English
• 1945-1957
• One folder containing textual records. Part of no. E 5.
• Updated 4 weeks ago

E 12 contains records concerning the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee’s refugee activities between 1944 and 1957. Most of the records are accounts of the different activities the Swedish part of the committee undertook and estimations of how many prisoners were liberated from concentration camps and when. The series also includes much correspondence between the Swedish branch of the AJJDC and other parts of the committee. Many letters are addressed to Julius Hüttner, the chairman of the Refugee Committee [of the Jewish Community] in Gothenburg. Among these letters are a few conc...

• Protokoll, sammanträden med församlingarna i Stockholm, Göteborg och Malmö (1940-1949)

• Regionarkivet för Västra Götalandsregionen och Göteborgs Stad
• Judiska församlingen i Göteborg, E 5
• English
• 1940-1945
• 0,15 linear meters (one box)
• Updated 4 weeks ago

In file number E 5 are minutes from meetings and other records concerning cooperation between the Jewish community of Gothenburg and its counterparts in Stockholm and Malmö, primarily regarding refugee aid. The file include the minutes of the Jewish Community of Stockholm's Children Department, protocols from meetings between Ivar Philipson, David Köpniwsky and Michael Wächter, a meeting agenda for the board meeting of the Committee for the Recued of 1945, agendas for meetings with social workers (kuratorsammanträden), documents of the Relief Committee of Gothenburg, documents regarding the...

• Handlingar ang koncentrationslägrens offer, Länskommitténs handlingar (1945-1949)

• Regionarkivet för Västra Götalandsregionen och Göteborgs Stad
• Judiska församlingen i Göteborg, E 9
• English
• 1945-1949
• 2 files of textual records
• Updated 4 weeks ago

The E 9 series consists of two volumes of records concerning survivors of the Nazi concentration camps as well as records from the Regional Committee for the Victims of the Nazi Concentration Camps, written between 1945 and 1949. The records are divided into two archival boxes. They are typewritten and are in either English or French. The series contains the following: A list of children who came to France on 8 June 1945 after being liberated from Buchenwald and other German concentration camps. The list is alphabetical and gives the name, date of birth, birthplace, and nationality. There i...

• Regionarkivet för Västra Götalandsregionen och Göteborgs Stad
• Julius Hüttners korrespondens
• English
• 1923-1959
• 0.015 linear metres (one box)
• Updated 4 weeks ago

This collection mainly contains official correspondence between Julius Hüttner and individuals he had contact with as consul general of Costa Rica in Gothenburg. The correspondence comprises typewritten loose papers, mostly in Swedish and Spanish. A few of the letters are in English. The documents are originals, copies, transcripts, and translations of finished letters written in Swedish or Spanish. There are English and Swedish translations of some but not all of the letters in Spanish. All of the dated documents are from between 1941 and 1959. The records without dates are also related to...