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Language of Description: English
Language of Description: Ukrainian

  1. Spisi Mestnega ljudskega odbora Dolnja Lendava za leto 1947

    • Files of the Municipal People's Committee of Dolnja Lendava for the year 1947

    From workflow number 2 to workflow number 2204. The following files from the series are of particular interest to Holocaust researchers: the 2-page file SI_PAM/0164/004/00007 (Potrditev internacije Judov trgovca Zsige Weisa in soproge Paule Weis iz Dolnje Lendave v Auschwitz, 1947.03.06), which is a confirmation of the internment of the Jews of the merchant Zsiga Weis and his wife Paula Weis from Dolnja Lendava in Auschwitz, 1947. 03.06), as it contains the confirmation of witnesses that both were interned on April 26, 1944, and that Zsiga Weis died in the camp in Velika Kaniža (Nagykanizsa...

  2. Odločba o proglasitvi Juda Jurija Baderja in njegove družine iz Dolnje Lendave za mrtve

    • Decision declaring the Jew Jurij Bader and his family from Dolnja Lendava dead

    Decision declaring the Jew Jurij Bader and his family from Dolnja Lendava dead. Note: Most of the Jews from Lendava were taken to Velika Kaniža on April 26, 1944, from where they were then transported to Auschwitz. According to the testimony of Jurij Bader's cousin, Pavel Bader, Jurij Bader was released in Velika Kaniža (Nagykanizsa) so that he could return to Lendava. In October 1944, they were interned once again. They were taken to prisons in Budapest, where they died during the bombing of Budapest at the end of 1944.

  3. Seznam tujih državljanov, Judov, Romov ter demobilizirancev in invalidov v občini Dolnja Lendava

    • List of foreign nationals, Jews, Roma, demobilized and people with handicap in Dolnja Lendava

  4. Elaborat (podatki) o Judih v občini Dolnja Lendava

    • Elaboration (data) about Jews in Dolnja Lendava

    The Elaboration contains the following data: the number of Jews before the Second World War, the number of internees, the number of those who returned from internment, the health and material condition of those who returned, the time of their deportation, the question of movable and immovable Jewish property.

  5. Družina Kukovec (1908-1981)

    • Kukovec family (1908-1981)

    Personal documents (diplomas, certificates); biography and obituary of Klara Kukovec.

  6. Žrtve vojnega nasilja 1941–1945

    • Victims of war violence 1941–1945

    Historian Dr. Tone Ferenc talks about the deportees and the German authorities' plans to deport Slovenes and Germanise Gorenjska and Štajerska in connection with the film footages of the German crimes against the civilian population. The film presents the most important places where the Germans gathered the deportees: the Slovenska Bistrica railway station, the Stari pisker prison in Celje, Rajhenburg Castle, Begunje prison and the Ljubelj camp. The fate of the inhabitants of Dražgoš and Branik is also shown. The film contains statements by refugees and camp inmates Tone Kristan, Danilo Erb...

  7. Družina Dedijer (1933–1991)

    • Dedijer family (1933–1991)
    • Arhiv Republike Slovenije
    • SI AS 1979
    • English
    • 1933-1991
    • 49,90 running meters of files, manuscript material, printed material, photographic material

    The fond consists of a collection of treatises, newspaper clippings, correspondence, excerpts and copies of material from various archives and literature. The material is organized by topics related to specific policies and events: Tito / Kardelj / Jovanka / Ranković / Djilas / Hebrang / Waldheim / Dedijer / World War II / history of Yugoslavia / the Trieste question / foreign policy / internal tensions / the workings of the Russell Tribunal / the Informbiro / resistance movements in Europe / the Ustasha / the Chetniks / Stalinism / antisemitism / non-alignment / tradition / soccer, etc. Th...

  8. Zbirka okupatorjevi zapori in taborišča, 1936-1963

    • Collection Occupier's Prisons and Camps, 1936-1963
    • Arhiv Republike Slovenije
    • SI AS 1769
    • English
    • 1936-1963
    • 1,60 running meters of records, photographic material, printed material, manuscript material

    The collection contains personal documents, letters, certificates, diaries, poems, memoirs of internees and prisoners in Italian and German concentration camps and prisons; lists of internees, prisoners and deportees 1941-1945; certificates of German camps on the reception or release of internees 1941-1945 (Allach, Auschwitz, Buchenwald, Flossenbürg, Dachau, Mauthausen, Natzweiler, Ravensbrück, Sachsenhausen, Neuengamme, Strnišče pri Ptuju, Borl castle prison), the records of the Celje Judicial Prisons (reports, organizational matters, personnel matters); camp newsletters (Dachauski reporte...

  9. 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."

  10. 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
    • 34 volumes

    Contains archival records from the period 1997--2000. 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.

  11. Kommittén for levande historia

    • YK 5252
    • Riksarkivet
    • Kommittén for levande historia
    • English
    • 40 archive volumes, and includes 94 video and audio tapes of interviews conducted as part of the Committee's documentation project.

    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. 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 White Buses, and refugees who arrived in Sweden before and during the war. Nevertheless, nearly 100 interviews with Holocaust survivors were als...

  12. Advokat Ernst Baburgers arkiv

    • Archive of Ernst Baburger, lawyer
    • Riksarkivet
    • Advokat Ernst Baburgers arkiv
    • English
    • 1946-1983
    • 5,6 linear meters of textual material.

    The archive contains, among other things, the lawyers' client files, arranged annually. Among these files are compensation files from Jewish survivors who sought so-called Wiedergutmachung.

  13. 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...

  14. Statens Utlänningskommission

    • Utlänningskommissionen
    • SUK
    • State Foreigners Commission
    • Riksarkivet
    • Statens Utlänningskommission
    • English
    • 1916-1976
    • Approx. 3500 linear meters of mainly textual records.

    The archive contains records with information about virtually all foreigners who resided in Sweden during the period of Nazi Germany's persecution and the Holocaust, as well as about survivors from the Holocaust who arrived in Sweden towards the end of the war and after the war. These documents are held in the National Archives (in Marieberg in central Stockholm) if the individual acquired Swedish citizenship, died in Sweden before 1971, or left Sweden before 1972 without becoming a Swedish citizen. If the individual remained in Sweden as a non-Swedish citizen in 1971/72, their files are he...

  15. Ruth Jacobssons arkiv

    • Ruth Jacobsson's archive

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

  16. Judiska minnen

    • Jewish memories

    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. Halina Neujahrs arkiv

    • Archive of Halina Neujahr

    The archive was created in 2007 and covers the period around 1930 until Halina Neujahr died in 2006. The archive primarily contains documents relating Halina Neujahr's own experiences from the Warsaw ghetto and her time in Sweden in the form of lectures and newspaper articles, as well as the documentary film In Memoriam with Halina Neujahr, in which she talks about her life in the Warsaw ghetto and her transfer to a concentration camp. Centralfilm produced the documentary for the Association of Holocaust Survivors. The archive also contains newspaper articles, audio ta...

  18. Magda Goldschmidts papper

    • Papers of Magda Goldschmidt
    • Judiska Museet
    • Magda Goldschmidts papper
    • English
    • 1939-2019
    • 0.2 linear metres (2 boxes)

    The collection contains documents relating to Magda Goldschmidt’s personal life, particularly her early life and emigration to Sweden, where a Swedish-Jewish family in Stockholm adopted her. Among the documents is an envelope containing correspondence between Dr Mendelsohn at the orphanage in Berlin where she was living and her future adoptive mother. In another envelope is correspondence between Dr Mendelsohn and both adoptive parents in Stockholm, Israel and Betzy Goldschmidt, from 23 January 1939 to 21 June 1939, about the preparation of Magda’s journey to Sweden. In the envelope, there ...

  19. 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 ...

  20. Raoul Wallenberg-projektets arkiv

    • Raoul Wallenberg project archive

    Letters (including drafts), audio recordings, manuscripts, documents filed by subject There is more detailed information about the project's intentions, work, and methods in volume F1:1. The volume also contains project leader Karl Molin's essay 'Raoul Wallenbergarkivet i Uppsala', from the journal Arkiv, samhälle och forskning 1993:3, and Paul Levine's 'Oral History and the Holocaust. Some Methodological Reflections" from Multiethnica 1992:10. Volume F8:1, which contains mainly administrative documents, also contains working material, the basis for the overview table, and a list of abbrevi...