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Country: Sweden

  1. Generalkonsul Olof Herman Lamms arkiv, A

    1. Generalkonsul Olof Herman Lamms arkiv
    • Generalkonsul Olof Herman Lamms arkiv. Privat korrespondens
    • Stockholms Stadsarkiv
    • Generalkonsul Olof Herman Lamms arkiv, A
    • English
    • 1891-1955
    • 124 boxes of correspondence.

    The series is part of the archive of the Swedish Jewish diplomat and businessman Consul General Olof H Lamm. It contains the personal correspondence of Lamm and his wife, Signe Lamm, with family, friends, and acquaintances about private matters, business, diplomacy, and issues regarding Jewish organizations, primarily about Jewish relief. The first 32 volumes of the collection primarily contain correspondence with Lamm’s family, including his father, the liberal politician Herman Lamm, his brothers, the Vice President of the Swedish National Bank, Erik Lamm, and the literature scholar Profe...

  2. Kommittén for levande historia

    • YK 5252
    • Riksarkivet
    • Kommittén for levande historia
    • English

    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. It comprises 40 archive volumes, and includes 94 video and audio tapes of interviews conducted as part of the Committee's documentation project. 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...

  3. Efterforskningsavdelningen

    1. Statens Utlänningskommission
    • Kontrollbyråns efterforskningsavdelning
    • Tracing Department
    • Statens utlänningskommission Kontrollbyrån Efterforskningsavdelningen
    • Riksarkivet
    • Efterforskningsavdelningen
    • English
    • 1945-1952
    • 13 linear meters of textual records.

    The archive includes correspondence with foreign relief organizations and tracing agencies, and registries and lists of names of individuals who came to Sweden with the assistance of the Red Cross in the spring of 1945 and the so-called UNRRA-transports of July 1945. The archive contains separate registries of Polish and Danish citizens as well as of Jews. The Swedish Red Cross' archive in the National Archives in Täby hold duplicates of these registries. The archive also includes personal files from 1945 to 1947, transmitted to the State Foreigners Commission in the spring of 1947 from the...

  4. Statens utlänningskommission Sociala byrån

    1. Statens Utlänningskommission
    • Sociala Byrån
    • Social Office
    • Riksarkivet
    • Statens utlänningskommission Sociala byrån
    • English
    • 1944-1947
    • 14,5 linear meters of textual records and photographs in archive boxes.

    This archive comprises directories and documents detailing refugee camps and other accommodation and care facilities where survivors of the Holocaust were placed upon their arrival in Sweden. The sub-series F3 Documents regarding children (Handlingar rörande barn) contains records concerning children among the survivors transported to Sweden in 1945, of whom many were afflicted with tuberculosis.

  5. Generalkonsul Olof Herman Lamms arkiv, B 85

    1. Generalkonsul Olof Herman Lamms arkiv
    • Stockholms Stadsarkiv
    • Generalkonsul Olof Herman Lamms arkiv, B 85
    • English
    • 1938-1948
    • 0,15 linear meters (one box) of textual material.

    File B 85 contains information on Lamm’s and the Swedish Jewish organizations’ endeavors to create post-war relief and rehabilitation. There are also documents relating to efforts to facilitate family reunification for Jewish refugees. Lamm tried to mobilize such initiatives domestically and internationally, proposing various relief measures in 1943 to American Governor Herbert H Lehman, who served as director general of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration. The volume contains Lamm’s correspondence regarding the 1943 Jewish relief memorandum with various prominent pe...

  6. Justitiedepartementet

    • Ministry of Justice
    • Riksarkivet
    • Justitiedepartementet
    • English
    • 1840-1996
    • Textual records.

    Series E1 A and E1 B contain consular files containing the so-called citizenship acts, i.e., applications for Swedish citizenship with accompanying documents. All refugees from Nazi persecution, and Holocaust survivors, who later became Swedish citizens have a citizenship file in the Ministry of Justice's archives. In addition to applications and notifications of citizenship, the files contain all other documentation that the Ministry considered relevant to the decision. In the files are short accounts of personal experiences reproduced in police interrogation reports, biographies, certific...

  7. Kanslibyrån

    1. Statens Utlänningskommission
    • Administration Office
    • Riksarkivet
    • Kanslibyrån
    • English
    • 1944-1969
    • 3097 linear meters of mostly textual records.

    The archive includes files and documents concerning refugees and survivors, such as name lists, personal files (central dossiers, control dossiers, and entry dossiers), entry cards, and police interrogation records. For each individual, one or more dossiers were compiled containing documents regarding entry permits (visa dossiers, prior to 1944, managed by the Ministry for Foreign Affairs) and residence and work permits (central dossiers), including applications, police reports, submitted foreign identity papers (if the individual received a Swedish alien passport).

  8. 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.

  9. Utrikesdepartementet. Beskickningsarkivet

    • Ministry for Foreign Affairs. Archives of Swedish foreign missions

    The embassy archives from Sweden's various missions abroad contain correspondence and diplomatic reports, including reports on the Nazi persecution of Jews and the Holocaust. There are also documents discussing Swedish entry and visa regulations for Jewish refugees. There are also sources dealing with Sweden's involvement in rescue operations in Denmark, Hungary and Germany. The series include the archives of the Swedish legations in Berlin, Vienna, Prague and Budapest.

  10. Statens utlänningskommission, Andra världskrigets lägerarkiv

    1. Statens Utlänningskommission
    • Andra Världskrigets lägerarkiv
    • World War II camp archives
    • Riksarkivet
    • Statens utlänningskommission, Andra världskrigets lägerarkiv
    • English
    • 1940-1948
    • 74 linear meters of textual records.

    The archives of the foreigner camps operated by the State Foreigners Commission comprise 74 linear meters of textual records. They are organized by camp, according to the names of 111 camps, along with a series of ten volumes containing documents regarding various smaller camps. For instance, among the series of named camps are eight volumes on Doverstorp, 13 volumes on Robertshöjd I and II, 23 volumes on Rosöga, and four volumes on Skatås. These archives include indexes and brief registries detailing the refugees and survivors present in the camps, providing information such as nationality...

  11. Correspondence of Julius Hüttner

    1. The Jewish Community of Gothenburg

    This collection mainly contains official correspondence between Julius Hüttner and individuals he had contact with as consul general of Costa Rica in Gothenburg. The correspondence comprises typewritten loose papers, mostly in Swedish and Spanish. A few of the letters are in English. The documents are originals, copies, transcripts, and translations of finished letters written in Swedish or Spanish. There are English and Swedish translations of some but not all of the letters in Spanish. All of the dated documents are from between 1941 and 1959. The records without dates are also related to...

  12. Avdelningen för immigration och transmigration och Judiska Transmigrationskommittén

    1. Jewish Community of Stockholm
    • Department of Immigration and Transmigration, and the Jewish Transmigration Committee
    • Riksarkivet Täby
    • Avdelningen för immigration och transmigration och Judiska Transmigrationskommittén
    • English
    • 1945-1950
    • 12,5 linear meters of textual records.

    The archive contains, among other things, a card index of transmigrants and relatives during the period 1946-1948, as well as personal files for entry cases between 1945 and 1950.

  13. Juridiska byrån

    1. Jewish Community of Stockholm

    The archive contains documents from the Bureau for Legal Information, the Polish Restitution Claims Department, and the Office of Restitution. The archive contains personal files, registers of individual files, and correspondence. The archive contains personal files from 1947 to 1954, divided into “general” cases (21 volumes) and cases concerning property in Poland (13 volumes). The archive also contains a card index to the personal files. The sub-archive contains documents 1947-1954 (3 linear meters in total) from all three agencies mentioned above: * Register of personal files (series D 1...

  14. 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...

  15. 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...

  16. 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...

  17. 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...

  18. Huvudarkivet

    1. Jewish Community of Stockholm
    • Central Archive
    • Huvudserien
    • Riksarkivet Täby
    • Huvudarkivet
    • English
    • 1771-2000
    • 73.4 linear meters. Textual records.

    The Central Archive (Huvudarkivet) includes the documents of the Jewish Community's governing council and the executive committee. The protocol series (A 1-3) includes scattered information about the Jewish Community of Stockholm's response to the situation of the Jews in Nazi-controlled Europe and decisions regarding various forms of aid activities. The B4 a-series contains the Jewish Community of Stockholm's journals and includes, among other periodicals, its member bulletin, Församlingsblad för Mosaiska församlingen i Stockholm, which, from 1940, regularly reported on the situation of ...

  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. URO-byrån för rättshjälp

    1. Jewish Community of Stockholm
    • URO Legal Aid Office
    • Riksarkivet Täby
    • URO-byrån för rättshjälp
    • English
    • 1953-1975
    • 53,3 linear meters of textual material.

    The archive contains a card index to compensation cases from 1953 to 1975 and over 600 personal files with several thousand compensation cases in the same period. The claims files contain both standardized personal data about the clients, such as age, gender, origin, religious affiliation, and information about the crimes they suffered at the hands of the Nazi regime in Germany. The applications also contain testimonies written by the applicants about the crimes they suffered. These accounts are detailed but often very factual and concise as they are shaped by the legal process in which the...