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Language of Description: English
Country: Sweden

  1. Polska källinstitutet i Lund

    • The Polish Research Institute in Lund
    • (Polski Instytut Zrodlowy w Lund, PIZ
    • Lunds Universitet
    • Polska källinstitutet i Lund
    • English
    • 1945-1972
    • Notes and memos Letters (including drafts) Photographs Drawing/painting Documents filed by subject

    The collection consists of various sorts of documentation about and from Nazi concentration camps. It also includes documentation of the arrival in Sweden of Polish (Jewish and non-Jewish) survivors from Nazi concentration camps in 1945, as well as of the Swedish rehabilitation efforts, correspondence, and documentation of the institute and its predecessor’s work. The collection also holds handwritten testimonies (and typewritten transcripts) of survivors from Nazi concentration camps, based on interviews, following a standardised form that includes date, name, personal information and gene...

  2. Socialstyrelsen

    • National Board of Welfare
    • National Board of Social Affairs
    • Riksarkivet
    • Socialstyrelsen
    • English
    • 1912-2005
    • 2227,3 linear meters of mostly textual records and statistics.

    There are four different sub-archives in the National Board of Welfare's archive holding records from the handling of Holocaust refugees and survivors coming to Sweden: (1.) The archive of the Bureau for Social Affairs in General (Byrån för sociala ärenden i allmänhet, 1:a byrån), 1st Bureau: Foreigners Affairs. It contains minutes, letters, reports and correspondence relating to refugees and other foreigners up to 1939. The F series contains personal files on foreign nationals, including refugees from Nazi Germany. The 1st bureau's tasks were taken over in 1938 by the (2.) Foreigners Burea...

  3. Judiska minnen

    • Jewish memories
    • Nordiska museet
    • Judiska minnen
    • English
    • 1994-1998
    • More than 400 life stories and interviews on cassette tapes and videos, photographs and original documents. The documents include diaries and collections of letters, and approximately 1,600 photographs.

    The collection consists of over 400 life stories and interviews on cassette tapes and videos, photographs and original documents. The documents include diaries and collections of letters; the approximately 1,600 photographs come from the participants' own family albums. Some of the material depicts Jewish life in various villages and cities in Europe, cultures that were completely wiped out during the Holocaust.

  4. Archive of Ingeborg Herlitz

    • Ingeborg Herlitz' arkiv
    • Riksarkivet
    • SE/RA/720461
    • English
    • 1945-1952
    • 0.3 linear metres (4 volumes) Textual material

    The four volumes that make up the personal archive of Ingeborg Herlitz contain various documents related to her work at Lärbro military hospital in Gotland, where Herlitz served as a health counselor to former prisoners of concentration camps suffering from tuberculosis. Herlitz maintained correspondence with a notable number of Jewish survivors whom she cared for during her service at Lärbro Hospital, hailing from such countries as Germany, Greece, Poland, and Italy. The letters in the volumes contain information on her patients’ whereabouts following their departure from Lärbro, providing...

  5. Gunhild Tegens samling

    • Archive of Gunhild Tegen

    The collection contains a rich assortment of records related to the experiences of Jewish survivors of concentration camps, compiled by Gunhild and Einar Tegen as part of their post-World War II documentation project. The documentation was gathered at the initiative of the Swedish Joint Committee on Democratic Reconstruction (Samarbetskommittén för Demokratiskt Uppbyggnadsarbete), of which professor of philosophy Einar Tegen, the author Gunhild Tegen’s husband, was president. The interviews were conducted by Swedish psychologist Valdemar Fellinius and polyglot Dory Engströmer and carried ou...

  6. Arbetarrörelsens flyktinghjälp

    • Fackliga och politiska emigranters hjälpkommitté
    • Labour Movement Refugee Relief

    The series E/1/12 contains correspondence with the Matteotti Committee in Copenhagen, the refugee committees in Oslo and Helsinki regarding the entry and support of German and Sudeten German refugees 1938-1944, and with Social Democratic refugee aid committees and other organizations in France, Great Britain, Switzerland, Hungary, Austria, Belgium, and Poland 1938-1939. Some of the refugees that the organization corresponded with and about were Jews. The archive also contains personal files from the period 1933–1961, some of which contain documents about Jewish refugees in Sweden.

  7. Jacob Ettlingers arkiv

    • Riksarkivet
    • Jacob Ettlingers arkiv
    • English
    • 1916-1952
    • 4 linear meter of records. Textual material, financial records, printed material, photographs and film.

    Jacob Ettlinger's (1880-1952) archive consists of a total of four shelf meters and includes many records related to the Holocaust. For example, series number 3: Jacob Ettlingers ”privata” pärmar 1932–1952 (Jacob Ettlinger's "private" binders 1932-1952) consists of 27 volumes in cardboard boxes. They include alphabetically arranged correspondence containing information from survivors of war and camps, lists of relatives and friends sought through the Red Cross and other aid organizations, and lists of survivors. There are also documents relating to Ettlinger's work in sending aid to German...

  8. Folke Bernadottes, greve av Wisborg, arkiv

    • Personal archive of Folke Bernadotte, Count of Wisborg
    • Riksarkivet
    • Folke Bernadottes, greve av Wisborg, arkiv
    • English
    • 1798-1984
    • 0,5 linear meters of mostly textual records.

    The archive contains (in vol. 1), among other things, Folke Bernadotte's pocket almanacs from 1944-1945 with notes on the Red Cross campaign and notebooks with notes on meetings in Berlin during the negotiations (March-April 1945) in connection with the Red Cross operation with the 'White buses'.

  9. KW Gullers arkiv

    • Nordiska museet
    • KW Gullers arkiv
    • English
    • The collection consists of about half a million pictures. There are also photo negatives, a copy of the first editions of sixty-two books, press cuttings, and two cameras.

    K.W. Guller's archive contains a large number of reportage photos showing survivors from Nazi camps arriving at Malmö harbor and their first time in Sweden. Some of the pictures were published in Swedish weekly newspapers. The collection has also been used as illustrations in books and exhibitions.

  10. Raoul Wallenberg-projektets arkiv

    • Uppsala universitetsbibliotek
    • Raoul Wallenberg-projektet
    • English
    • 1989-1991
    • Letters (including drafts), audio recordings, manuscripts, documents filed by subject

    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. 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 on...

  11. Jewish Community of Stockholm

    • Judiska (Mosaiska) församlingen i Stockholm (JFST)
    • Riksarkivet Täby
    • Judiska församlingen i Stockholm
    • English
    • 315 linear meters. Textual material such as protocols and minutes, financial and statistical records, correspondences, and reports and memos, and periodicals and ephemera. There are also a smaller amount of photographs and drawings.

    Archivists at the National Archives have archival holdings have organized and cataloged the holdings into over 80 sub-archives. The overarching structure is as follows: 1 Central archive 2 Church records 3 Community bodies 4 Funds and foundations 5 Organizations and associations 6 Business organizations 7 Rabbis and other staff 8 Personal archives 9 Music sheets 10 Image and photo collections The Central archive includes the administrational records and documents related to the community's core activities. Until 1910, the community had the official duty to keep population records for its me...

  12. Bertil Bergströms samling

    • Bertil Bergström's collection
    • Stadsarkivet Malmö
    • Bertil Bergströms samling
    • English
    • 1915-1947
    • 0,41 linear meters.

    The archive contains, among other things, documents and memos about the 'White Buses'.

  13. Ukrainska sällskapet i Sverige

    • Ukrainian Society in Sweden
    • Riksarkivet
    • Ukrainska sällskapet i Sverige
    • English
    • 1947-1999
    • 6,5 linear meters of textual and financial records, photographs, and audio cassettes.

    The Ukrainian Society's archives contain testimonies about the Holocaust, including the following volume: F 4 Audio recordings concerning the personal experiences of I. Wanczyckyj, W. Bretan, M. Radekko and B. Skobowitsh-Okolot's personal experiences during the Second World War. The recordings are on 12 cassette tapes (12 x 90min). The recordings are in Ukrainian and made on 1989-03-10-11. They contain testimonies about, among other things, anti-Semitism in Ukraine, life in the Lviv ghetto, concentration camps, and "death marches."

  14. Kommittén Forum för Levande historia med Projekt Levande Historia

    • Kommittén Forum för Levande historia med föregångare
    • YK 6047
    • Riksarkivet
    • Kommittén Forum för Levande historia med Projekt Levande Historia
    • English
    • 1998-2001

    Contains archival records from the period 1997--2000 organized in 34 volumes. The archive consists of Projekt Levande historia (the Living History Project) (in vols. 1-16) and Kommittén Forum för Levande historia Ku 1999:9 (Living History Forum Committee Ku 1999:9) (vols. 17-32). The archive includes a survey of testimonies for the planning and implementation of documentation projects (vol. 13), a large number of press clippings and videotapes.

  15. Kommittén for levande historia

    • YK 5252
    • Riksarkivet
    • Kommittén for levande historia
    • English

    The archive of the state expert commission includes documentation of the committee's work as well as the material collected and produced by the commission in 2001. It comprises 40 archive volumes, and includes 94 video and audio tapes of interviews conducted as part of the Committee's documentation project. One of the main principles that guided the collection was that it would have a Swedish perspective. Thus, interviews were not primarily made with Holocaust survivors, but with others, who in one way or another, came in to contact with the Holocaust, like medical staff, the drivers of the...

  16. Göteborgs stads kurator för statslösa flyktingar

    • City of Gothenburg counselor for stateless refugees
    • Göteborgs kommun. Göteborgs stads kurator för statslösa flyktingar

    The series include 1,529 personal files in 16 volumes. The files contain information about refugees and Holocaust survivors who came to Sweden and stayed in Gothenburg from 1937 to 1947. One volume also contains circular letters and guidelines for the treatment of refugees from the authorities and one volume contains correspondence.

  17. S14UM Kulturhistoriska samlingen

    The collection includes several items relating to the Holocaust. Among these is a writing pad (item number: UM032489) kept as a memory of the patients treated at the Margaretegärdeskolan emergency hospital in Uddevalla in the summer of 1945. In the spring and summer of 1945, the school was transformed into an emergency hospital for survivors of Nazi Germany's concentration camps. The white buses arrived in Malmö, and from there, the new arrivals were dispatched to different parts of the country. Two hundred survivors came to Uddevalla, where the Margretegärdeskolan was emptied of students a...

  18. Kriminalpolisen i Malmö

    • Malmö Criminal Police
    • Stadsarkivet Malmö
    • Kriminalpolisen i Malmö
    • English
    • 1874-1970
    • 240,7 linear meters of textual records

    The archive includes the F7 series, which contains 12 volumes of extensive material on refugees and survivors, including survivors and refugees who arrived in Sweden during and after the Second World War. The documents from 1943-44 contain documents concerning refugees who came to Sweden from Denmark, including those who fled to Sweden in the autumn of 1943. Later documents concern refugees and survivors from other countries. The series also includes lists of survivors who came to Malmö using various boat transports and interrogation protocols. Volume F7: 9 contains the Malmö police's alpha...

  19. Länsstyrelsen i Malmöhus län, civilförsvarssektionen

    • Civil Defence Section of the County Administrative Board of Malmöhus County
    • Landsarkivet i Lund
    • Länsstyrelsen i Malmöhus län, civilförsvarssektionen
    • English
    • 58 linear meters of textual records.

    Among other records, the Civil Defense Section's archive contains documentation concerning Holocaust refugees, around 1941-1949. The series Ö I: a Registerkort över flyktingar inkomna til landet contains 29 boxes with more than 20,000 register cards of refugees and survivors from concentration camps, who came to Sweden from 1944 to 1946. The cards include their name, date of birth, place of residence, nationality, date of arrival and the name of the reception center where they were received, and sometimes information on transfers. On some cards there is a note if the person was Jewish, in...

  20. Hollanderbolagen

    • Riksarkivet
    • Hollanderbolagen
    • English
    • 1862-1996
    • 36,1 linear meters of textual records, financial reports, print material, and photographs.

    The archive originates in Fritz Hollander's documents which were deposited with the National Archives, and contains documents after Baltiska Skinnkompaniet, A.J. Hollander, Fritz Hollander and successors for the period 1862-1996. Hollander, Fritz Hollander and successors for the period 1862-1996. The archive also contains documents relating to Swedish and foreign Jewish organizations, documents relating to the Mosaic congregation in Stockholm, Zionist organizations, as well Hollander's father-in-law, Jacob Ettlinger's, surviving documents. The archive consists of two main parts: The first i...