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  1. 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.

  2. 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...

  3. 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...

  4. 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...

  5. 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.

  6. 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...

  7. 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. Bialystoker Centre of Montreal

    Consists of financial and administrative records of the Bialystoker Centre, as well as correspondence sent and received by the Centre.

  10. Paul Trepman Fonds

    Fonds consists of manuscripts and notes from Paul Trepman's articles, books, and lectures as well as personal biographical documents, correspondence, photographs, and ephemera.

  11. Organizing Committee to Convene a Grassroots Conference to Protest Hitler's Pogrom Against German Jews letter

    Item is a letter discussing Organizing Committee to Convene a Grassroots Conference to Protest Hitler's Pogrom Against German Jews, from Rabbi H. Abramovitch.

  12. National Holocaust Remembrance Committee (CJC) meeting minutes

    Contains meeting minutes for the National Holocaust Remembrance Committee hosted by the Canadian Jewish Congress, for which Shaffer was a consultant for associated documentary projects. Also contains CJC Audio Visual Department meeting minutes.

  13. Holocaust Documentation Project (CJC) programming draft, evaluation

    Contains programming draft and evaluation relating to the Holocaust Documentation Project (associated with the National Holocaust Remembrance Committee), addressing budget, production, educational guides, archives, and historical authentication.

  14. The Unger Family Story

    File contains the a history of the Unger Family written by Herman Unger. This manuscript follows the Ungers through 20th century and from Poland to Russia, Germany, Israel, and France.

  15. Holocaust materials

    Includes material regarding the story of 93 girls who arrived to Canada in 1942 and the Spanish Civil War.

  16. Holocaust Documentation Project (CJC) meeting minutes, memos

    Contains meeting minutes for, and memos relating to, the Holocaust Documentation Project (associated with the National Holocaust Remembrance Committee) hosted by the Canadian Jewish Congress, for which Shaffer was a consultant. Also contains photocopies of articles related to the project.

  17. Undzer Zhornl (Our Journal) — Rosh Hashanah 5707 (October 1946) Issue

    Contains the Rosh Hashanah 5707 issue of “Our Journal”—a periodical published by the American Council for Warsaw Jews. Journal contains appeals for donations, articles regarding the situation of Warsaw survivors in Europe, accounts of the Holocaust, and poetry.

  18. A Promise to My Mother: Memories of a Life Shaped by the Holocaust

    File contains a bound book detailing the memoirs of Yossi Indig.

  19. Sholem Krishtalka Collection

    Consists of personal documents from the Krishtalka family, correspondence, ephemeral and organizational material from international and Jewish Montreal organizations such as United Jewish People's Order (UJPO), Yidisher Kultur Farband (YKUF) and the Jewish Public Library. Also contains numerous posters and flyers for theatre, arts and musical presentations in Jewish Montreal.

  20. Lea Roback Recollections