Selected records of the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Identifier
irn514250
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2003.96
  • RG-66.002M
Dates
1 Jan 1936 - 31 Dec 1952
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Swedish
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn514250

Extent and Medium

31 microfilm reels, 35 mm

Creator(s)

  • Sweden. Utrikesdepartementet

Archival History

Sweden. Riksarkivet

Acquisition

Records formerly located at the Utrikesdepartementet (Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs), today at the Riksarkivet (Swedish National Archives). The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's International Archives Project acquired the microfilm from the Swedish National Archives in 2003. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the microfilm in May 2003.

Scope and Content

Contains records relating to repatriation of prisoners of war, aid to refugees including materials regarding the High Commissioner of the League of Nations, the Nansen Office, and Nansen refugee passports; proceedings and reports of the Intergovernmental Refugee Committee and of the Evian Conference; help to refugees from various countries; post-war refugee help; Swedish police reports on Danish Jews in Malmö, Hälsingbor, and other towns; Swedish diplomatic correspondence on refugee questions; and press clippings of the Ossietzky affair from 1936 to 1937.

Conditions Governing Reproduction

Copyright Holder: Sweden. Riksarkivet

People

  • Ossietzky, Carl von, 1889-1938.

Corporate Bodies

  • High Commission for Refugees (Jewish and Other) Coming from Germany
  • League of Nations
  • Sweden. Utrikesdepartementet

Subjects

  • Prisoners of war.
  • Passports, Refugee.
  • Refugees, Jewish--Government policy--Sweden.
  • Refugee -- Humanitarian assistance -- Associations, institutions, etc.
  • Evian Conference (1938 : Evian-les-Bains, France)

Genre

This description is derived directly from structured data provided to EHRI by a partner institution. This collection holding institution considers this description as an accurate reflection of the archival holdings to which it refers at the moment of data transfer.

Copies

  • Riksarkivet

    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum holds copies of Holocaust-relevant archives from Riksarkivet

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