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  2. 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...

  3. 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.

  4. 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'.

  5. 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...

  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. 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...

  8. 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...

  9. 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.

  10. 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...

  11. 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...