Raoul Wallenberg-projektets arkiv
- Raoul Wallenberg project archive
Biographical History
The Raoul Wallenberg project, which ran from 1989 to 1991, was to conduct and preserve interviews (on tape and in transcripts) with people who could talk about Swedish aid activities in Budapest in 1944-45. It conducted 170 such interviews: 12 in Sweden, 47 in Israel, 53 in Hungary, and 58 in the USA.
Scope and Content
Letters (including drafts), audio recordings, manuscripts, documents filed by subject
There is more detailed information about the project's intentions, work, and methods in volume F1:1. The volume also contains project leader Karl Molin's essay 'Raoul Wallenbergarkivet i Uppsala', from the journal Arkiv, samhälle och forskning 1993:3, and Paul Levine's 'Oral History and the Holocaust. Some Methodological Reflections" from Multiethnica 1992:10.
Volume F8:1, which contains mainly administrative documents, also contains working material, the basis for the overview table, and a list of abbreviations and information about who conducted the interviews.
Series F2D and F3B contain, among other things, eight written interview responses and a unique collection of copies from archives in Budapest.
System of Arrangement
This interview material, which forms the core of the project's archive, has been organized into two series of audio tapes (original recordings and working copies; see F2B) and a series of transcripts and translations (F2C). This register is attached to the archival index, which can be found online.
Finding Aids
Thomas Aurelis, 'Raoul Wallenberg-projektet. Arkivbeskrivning.' Uppsala 1994. See: https://www.alvin-portal.org/alvin/attachment/document/alvin-record:13030/ATTACHMENT-0001.pdf
Sources
Thomas Aurelis, 'Raoul Wallenberg-projektet. Arkivbeskrivning.' Uppsala 1994. See: https://www.alvin-portal.org/alvin/attachment/document/alvin-record:13030/ATTACHMENT-0001.pdf
Rules and Conventions
EHRI Guidelines for Description v.1.0