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  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. Mosaiska församlingen i Norrköping

    • The Jewish (Mosaic) congregation of Norrköping
    • Stadsarkivet Norrköping
    • Mosaiska församlingen i Norrköping
    • English
    • 1775-2010
    • Around 40 archival volumes. Textual records.

    The archive, which is the Jewish congregation of Norrköping’s congregational archive, is structured thematically in a number of series, each containing a number of volumes (boxes). Some of these volumes include documents related to the Holocaust. Most importantly, there is one volume (F 4) that includes documents relating to Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany and Holocaust survivors who came to Norrköping, and the refugee aid and relief work of the congregation, from 1938 to 1961. This includes calls for donations (1942–1949) and subscription lists (1942–1945) while the largest part of the c...

  3. 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'.

  4. Hans Michaelis samling

    • Hans Michaeli's collection
    • Judiska Museet
    • Hans Michaelis samling
    • English
    • 1935-1967
    • 0.1 linear metres (1 large archive box)

    Hans Michaeli’s papers comprise one box of documents covering the period 1935-1967, primarily documents left by his father Wilhelm Michaeli, a German Jewish legal expert, and his work helping refugees for the Jewish Community of Stockholm. However, there is also material concerning Hans’s mother, Sophie Michaeli, and her work as director of the Tullgarn boys’ home in Uppsala. The archive includes various circular letters about raising money for Hjälpfond för Tysklands judar (Relief Fund for the Jews of Germany) (May and November 1933), the Jewish Community of Stockholm’s emergency relief ...

  5. Esther Lamms papper

    • Papers of Esther Lamm
    • Judiska Museet
    • Esther Lamms papper
    • English
    • 1945
    • 0.2 linear metres (2 folders). Textual records, drawings, and photographs.

    The collection consists of two folders containing the psychiatrist Dr. Esther Lamm’s documentation of her work at the Sigtuna hospital for refugees and survivors, who were liberated from Nazi concentration camps and arrived in Sweden with the help of UNRRA and the Swedish Red Cross in 1945. Lamm’s service to the hospital is documented in a certification written in 1945 by the hospital director, attesting to Lamm’s commendable dedication and “motherly care” devoted to her patients. One of the folders consists of documents, while the other consists of photographs from Lamm’s time at the hospi...

  6. 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...

  7. 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.

  8. The Jewish Community of Gothenburg

    The archive of the Jewish Community of Gothenburg contains the records of the community from the period of the first Jewish immigrants in the late 18th Century until the archive was deposited with the Regional Archives in Gothenburg in 1980. In the archive, there are many records relating to the Holocaust. These include documents about the aid activities for Jewish refugees and Holocaust survivors that the community and other Jewish organizations in Gothenburg carried out during and after the time of Nazi persecution and the Holocaust. The community's relief committee (see the series: Judis...

  9. Civilförsvarsstyrelsen

    • Swedish Civil Defence Board
    • Krigsarkivet
    • Civilförsvarsstyrelsen
    • English
    • 1944-1986
    • 467 linear meters of mainly textual records.

    Among the documents are letters to and from authorities, correspondence, activity reports, as well as documents relating to the operations in Lübeck and in camps in Sweden. The documents also include reports from inspections of refugee camps. In one of the archive's series (D), there are registers of refugees (and survivors). In another series (F 7), there are a large number of documents regarding the reception and initial care of survivors from concentration camps in Nazi Germany who were evacuated to Sweden in 1945. In these documents, there are also details about the conditions in the va...

  10. Anna Lindhagens samling

    • Anna Lindhagen's collection
    • Stockholms Stadsarkiv
    • Anna Lindhagens samling
    • English
    • 1874-1941
    • 5,1 linear meters of mostly textual records.

    In the series Brev och andra handlingar (Letters and other documents) there are four volumes (28-32) named Handlingar ang. Internationella Kvinnoförbundet för Fred och Frihet, IKFF (Documents concerning International Women's Federation for Peace and Freedom, IKFF). 1917-1941. One volume containing documents concerning the Save the Children Association 1920--39, and several volumes of documents from other refugee aid committees with scattered documents concerning Jewish refugees in Sweden.

  11. Generalkonsul Olof Herman Lamms arkiv

    • Stockholms Stadsarkiv
    • Generalkonsul Olof Herman Lamms arkiv
    • English
    • 1866-1955
    • 22 linear meters of mostly textual material.

    Olof Lamm's archive includes documents concerning his involvement in refugee aid, and relief activities for Jews in Nazi Germany. There are also correspondence between Lamm and other Jews in Sweden, and abroad, about the situation for Jews in countries under German control. The correspondence includes negotiations with Swedish and foreign state representatives and relief organizations about refugee aid, relief and rescue initiatives.

  12. 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...

  13. I Förintelsens närhet 2000

    • In the midst of the Holocaust 2000

    The collection contains interviews with two women about their upbringing and experiences during World War II in Poland and in Auschwitz during the winter of 1941/42, and about life in Sweden after the end of the war. Transcripts of the interviews, photographs, and maps of the places mentioned in the interviews are also included in the collection.

  14. Ruth Jacobssons arkiv

    • Ruth Jacobsson's archive
    • Nordiska museet
    • Ruth Jacobssons arkiv
    • English
    • 1930-2006
    • Textual records.

    The collection contains concert pianist Ruth Jacobsson's (1912-1947) memoirs, 'Mein Leben', including her and her daughter's time in concentration camps.

  15. 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.

  16. 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.

  17. 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...

  18. Svenska Röda Korset

    • Swedish Red Cross
    • Riksarkivet Täby
    • Svenska Röda Korset
    • English
    • 1830-2010
    • Around 2,000 volumes of textual material and photographs.

    The Swedish Red Cross archives contain documents about the organization's involvement in aid shipments to Jews in Nazi Germany and occupied countries, and about the expedition with the white buses and the negotiations in connection with it. For example, the Swedish Red Cross Archive I, in the series Överstyrelsen (06), contains a list of personnel who participated in the Swedish Red Cross's relief action for Norwegians and Danes interned in Germany. It includes a (not complete) list of personnel and a map of transportation routes. There is also extensive correspondence. Also in In the Övers...

  19. 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...

  20. 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...