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Country: Sweden

  1. Judiska församlingen i Göteborg, E 10

    1. The Jewish Community of Gothenburg
    • Handlingar ang Flyktingkontorets i Göteborg verksamhet

    File E10 (in fact, part of volume E 5) contains a few records, ten documents, concerning the activities of the Refugee Office of Gothenburg (Flyktingkontoret i Göteborg) between 1949 and 1956. Most of the documents are accounts of the office’s activities and calculations of how many refugees have emigrated to different countries, such as the USA. There is also documentation regarding the office (Stigbergstorget 4, Gothenburg) and the director (Dr Otto Schütz).

  2. 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...

  3. Huvudserie

    1. The Jewish (Mosaic) Congregation of Stockholm
    2. Flyktingsektionen
    3. Protokoll
    • Main Series

    Med protokoll 31/5 1945 för Kommittén för 1945 års räddade, jfr serie A 3 a. Flyktingsektionens protokoll 27/2 1947 angående uppsägande av samarbete med Gilel Storch ingår i vol. A 2:3.

  4. 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...

  5. Judiska församlingen i Göteborg, E 11

    1. The Jewish Community of Gothenburg
    • Handlingar ang hjälp åt danska flyktingar (1943-1946)

    E11 contains records concerning different forms of aid for Danish refugees between 1943 and 1946. All of the records are in either Danish or Swedish. The records are accounts of different forms of relief for Jewish refugees from Denmark, including descriptions of the Danish school in Gothenburg and accounts of how Danish Jewish students were aided in finishing their higher education while in exile in Sweden. There are also descriptions of how the different forms of aid changed over time. These descriptions also state that E. M. Weis was appointed manager of refugee aid. Other board members ...

  6. Judiska församlingen i Göteborg, E 12

    1. The Jewish Community of Gothenburg
    • Handlingar ang American Jewish Joint Distribution Committees flyktingverksamhet (1945-1957)

    E 12 contains records concerning the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee’s refugee activities between 1944 and 1957. Most of the records are accounts of the different activities the Swedish part of the committee undertook and estimations of how many prisoners were liberated from concentration camps and when. The series also includes much correspondence between the Swedish branch of the AJJDC and other parts of the committee. Many letters are addressed to Julius Hüttner, the chairman of the Refugee Committee [of the Jewish Community] in Gothenburg. Among these letters are a few conc...

  7. Judiska (Mosaiska) församlingen i Malmö

    • Stadsarkivet Malmö
    • Judiska (Mosaiska) församlingen i Malmö
    • English
    • 1873-1986
    • 22,9 linear meters of mostly textual material.

    Like its counterparts in Stockholm and Gothenburg, the Jewish Community of Malmö had extensive aid activities for refugees from Nazi Germany and German-occupied countries and for survivors of the Holocaust. From 1933 onwards, the community organized aid for refugees fleeing Nazism. In 1938, an aid committee was formed, the Relief Committee of the Jewish Community of Malmö (Mosaiska församlingens i Malmö hjälpkommitté), which raised funds for refugee aid. Among other things, the community organized a temporary home for German Jewish refugee children in Tjörnarp. In the fall of 1943, the Jewi...

  8. 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...

  9. Judefrågan. Allmänt. Hjälp åt flyktingar.

    1. Utrikesdepartementet
    • The Jewish Question. General. Refugee aid.
    • Riksarkivet
    • Judefrågan. Allmänt. Hjälp åt flyktingar.
    • English
    • 1933-1952
    • 8 folders of textual records.

    The collection was created by the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and consists of documents (originals, and contemporary copies and transcripts) connected to the situation for the Jews in Europe during the Nazi era and the immediate post-war years. It includes reports from Swedish diplomats in countries about the policies on Jewish refugees of different countries, and also reports from countries under Nazi rule about the situation for the Jewish population, as well as newspaper clippings on the same subjects. Some of the Swedish diplomatic correspondence includes antisemitic statements ...

  10. Medicinalstyrelsen

    • National Board of Health
    • Riksarkivet
    • Medicinalstyrelsen
    • English
    • 1868-1967

    The Medical Board's archives include documents relating to the care of concentration camp survivors who came to Sweden in 1945 through the Red Cross and the UNRRA operation. There are documents relating to patients, hospitals, camps and staff. The National Board's archive, 1945 refugee health care includes the series _ Medical index cards regarding refugees_ (Läkarkort rörande flyktingar) D 2. The series contains 16 boxes of medical cards of survivors, and documents from certain immigration centers and emergency hospitals, patient registers and patient rolls from various emergency hospita...

  11. 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...

  12. Emigrationsavdelningen

    1. Jewish Community of Stockholm
    • Riksarkivet Täby
    • Emigrationsavdelningen
    • English
    • 1941-1966
    • 40,5 linear meters.

    The department assisted refugees and survivors to emigrate to 'third countries'. The archive contains information about where Holocaust refugees and survivors went and how emigration was organized. The archive contains personal registers of cases handled 1946-1962 in 8 volumes. There is also a questionnaire to the 1945 rescued about emigration plans etc. in 1946, questionnaires about desired emigration destination, correspondence with Hias and other foreign aid organizations that partly financed Jewish emigration from Sweden, and 336 volumes of personal files in emigration cases from 1945 t...

  13. 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...

  14. Statens Utlänningskommission, Hemliga arkivet

    1. Statens Utlänningskommission
    • Hemliga arkivet
    • Classified Archive
    • Riksarkivet
    • Statens utlänningskommission, Hemliga arkivet
    • English
    • 1916-1976
    • 131,5 linear meters of textual records.

    The archive contains classified records with information about foreigners who entered Sweden from 1917, and resided in the country from 1920. The archive includes records of foreigners from 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. The archive includes protocols, minutes, correspondence, registries and lists, correspondence and individual files on foreigners, including Holocaust refugees and survivors, and perpetrators.

  15. Kulturutskottets protokoll

    1. The Jewish (Mosaic) Congregation of Stockholm
    2. Flyktingsektionen
    3. Protokoll
    4. Utskottens protokoll
    • Riksarkivet
    • B
    • Swedish
    • 1955-1972
    • Serien i kartong.

    Kulturutskottets första möte hölls 25/5 1955. Arbetsutskottets protokoll om kulturverksamhet före maj 1955 ingår i serie A 3 a. Innehåller kulturutskottets samt dess arbetsutskotts protokoll med bilagor. Innehåller även bilagor till sektionens arbetsutskotts protokoll om kulturverksamhet 1954-1955 samt kopior av protokoll vid överläggning med representanter för de mosaiska församlingarna, judiska klubbar i landsorten m.fl. 26/3 1950 och protokoll från flyktingsektionen 9/5 och dess församlingsdelegerade 11/5 1955 inför upprättandet av kulturutskottet. Minnesanteckningar från kulturutskottet...

  16. Understödsavdelningens protokoll

    1. The Jewish (Mosaic) Congregation of Stockholm
    2. Flyktingsektionen
    3. Protokoll
    • Riksarkivet
    • 2
    • Swedish
    • 1941-1950
    • Serien i kartonger.

    Utgör fortsättning på Hjälpkommittén, serie A 2. Avser understöd till ankomna före 1945, 1945-1947 även understöd åt "1945 års räddade", ankomna fr.o.m. 1946 och fr.o.m. 1946/1947 transmigranter (avdelningens utskott för transmigranter). Vid omorganisation hösten 1948 fördes ärenden om ankomna fr.o.m. 1946 till flyktingsektionens kommitté för ankomna fr.o.m. 1945 (se serie A 3 a). Ärendena om ankomna före 1945 och om transmigranter överfördes 1948 till Understödsnämndens allmänna sektion (utskottet för flyktinghjälp resp. transmigranter) (se Fattigvårdsnämnden, serie A 1 a fr. o. m. 1950; p...

  17. Protokoll från kommittén för 1945 års räddade

    1. The Jewish (Mosaic) Congregation of Stockholm
    2. Flyktingsektionen
    3. Protokoll
    4. Utskottens protokoll
    • Riksarkivet
    • A
    • Swedish
    • 1945-1970
    • Serien inbunden.

    Kommittén för "1945 års räddade" tillkom i maj 1945. Inom kommittén tillsattes ett arbetsutskott (ledde verksamheten) i maj 1945, stipendieutskott 1947, specialkommitté för religiösa frågor (specialutskott för religiös verksamhet) 1948, kulturutskott 1955 och socialt utskott för Ungernhjälpen 1957. Fr.o.m. hösten 1948 övertog kommittén även ärenden rörande inkomna fr.o.m. 1946. Avdelningen för ankomna fr.o.m. 1945 namnändrades 1956 till andra sociala sektionens (sociala) utskott. Serien innehåller protokoll från kommitténs arbetsutskott 1945-, stipendieutskott 1947-1964, specialkommitté 194...

  18. Listor över utländska judar i Sverige

    1. The Jewish (Mosaic) Congregation of Stockholm
    2. Flyktingsektionen
    3. Register och Liggare
    4. Register över flyktingar i Sverige
    • List of Foreign Jews in Sweden
    • Klara listor

    Alfabetiskt ordnade listor: tyskar som är flyktingar, icke-flyktingar/statslösa (män resp. kvinnor) och polacker som är flyktingar, icke-flyktingar/statslösa, icke-flyktingar/icke-statslösa (män resp. kvinnor). Med uppgifter om namn, födelsedatum m. m. Sannolikt upprättade ursprungligen av Socialstyrelsen 1943, med tillagda uppgifter om adress och religionstillhörighet (om ej mosaisk). Listorna är scannade. 2. Listor över tyskar (flyktingar) A-H, tjecker samt f.d. österrikare 1944(?) med av Statens utlänningskommission tillagda adressuppgifter 1944.

  19. Mosaiska församlingens Flyktingsektion

    1. Jewish Community of Stockholm
    • Flyktingsektionen
    • Refugee Section
    • Riksarkivet Täby
    • Mosaiska församlingens Flyktingsektion
    • English
    • 1941-1972
    • 45,6 linear meters of textual records in archival boxes.

    The Refugee Section's archive mainly covers the period from 1941 to 1972, when the Jewish Community of Stockholm was reorganized. The archive includes some documents dating back to the establishment of the former Relief Committee in 1933, although these have separate indexes. The Refugee Section's archive mainly consists of documents related to the section's administration and refugee aid. The personal files in the archive regarding support cover the period up to 1980.

  20. Registreringsavdelningen

    1. Jewish Community of Stockholm
    • Riksarkivet Täby
    • Registreringsavdelningen
    • English
    • 1944-1948
    • 9,6 linear meters of textual material.

    The archive contains lists and files compiled in the course of researching and registering deported Jews (e.g. for the purpose of sending aid) and Holocaust survivors. There are 19 volumes of registers of Jews researched (deported) in Germany or German-occupied countries 1944--1945, a four-volume register of Jews in Theresienstadt 1944--1945, a corresponding two-volume register of Jewish prisoners in Bergen-Belsen 1944--1945 and a volume of registers of prisoners in smaller camps 1944--1945. There is also an index of 1945 rescues and lists in 18 volumes of Jewish survivors in various countr...