Generalkonsul Olof Herman Lamms arkiv

• Generalkonsul Olof Herman Lamms arkiv. Privat korrespondens

• Stockholms Stadsarkiv
• Generalkonsul Olof Herman Lamms arkiv, A
• English
• 1891-1955
• 124 boxes of correspondence.
• Updated 4 weeks ago

The series is part of the archive of the Swedish Jewish diplomat and businessman Consul General Olof H Lamm. It contains the personal correspondence of Lamm and his wife, Signe Lamm, with family, friends, and acquaintances about private matters, business, diplomacy, and issues regarding Jewish organizations, primarily about Jewish relief. The first 32 volumes of the collection primarily contain correspondence with Lamm’s family, including his father, the liberal politician Herman Lamm, his brothers, the Vice President of the Swedish National Bank, Erik Lamm, and the literature scholar Profe...

• Flyktinghjälpen

• Stockholms Stadsarkiv
• Generalkonsul Olof Herman Lamms arkiv, B 84
• English
• 1938-1945
• 0,15 linear meters (one box).
• Updated 4 weeks ago

File B 84 contains material related to Lamm’s work with Jewish refugees from 1938 to 1945. The volume contains records of the financial support for Jewish refugees that Lamm gathered through donations from his peers and provided to the Jewish Community of Stockholm prior to and during the years of WWII, as well as various recommendation letters written for Jewish refugees to find employment in Sweden. It also includes letters from various Jewish individuals from Sweden, Germany, Austria, and the US who requested Lamm’s assistance in the acquisition of visas, residence permits, family reunif...

• Stockholms Stadsarkiv
• Generalkonsul Olof Herman Lamms arkiv, B 85
• English
• 1938-1948
• 0,15 linear meters (one box) of textual material.
• Updated 4 weeks ago

File B 85 contains information on Lamm’s and the Swedish Jewish organizations’ endeavors to create post-war relief and rehabilitation. There are also documents relating to efforts to facilitate family reunification for Jewish refugees. Lamm tried to mobilize such initiatives domestically and internationally, proposing various relief measures in 1943 to American Governor Herbert H Lehman, who served as director general of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration. The volume contains Lamm’s correspondence regarding the 1943 Jewish relief memorandum with various prominent pe...

• Stigbo barnhem

• Stockholms Stadsarkiv
• Generalkonsul Olof Herman Lamms arkiv, B 87
• English
• 1939
• Textual records.
• Updated 4 weeks ago

B 87 consists of records related to the Stigbo orphanage, an orphanage for Jewish and “non-Aryan” children created in 1939 at the initiative of Signe Lamm, Tony Bonnier and Ingrid Sachs. The file also contains details of Signe Lamm’s work to establish and financially maintain the orphanage, asking peers and key individuals for donations and financial guarantees for the orphanage’s children. Photographs and printed material related to the orphanage can also be found in volume B 88.