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Holding Institution: Regionarkivet för Västra Götalandsregionen och Göteborgs Stad

  1. Göteborgs stads kurator för statslösa flyktingar

    • City of Gothenburg counselor for stateless refugees
    • Göteborgs kommun. Göteborgs stads kurator för statslösa flyktingar

    The series include 1,529 personal files in 16 volumes. The files contain information about refugees and Holocaust survivors who came to Sweden and stayed in Gothenburg from 1937 to 1947. One volume also contains circular letters and guidelines for the treatment of refugees from the authorities and one volume contains correspondence.

  2. Judiska församlingen i Göteborg, E 5

    1. The Jewish Community of Gothenburg
    • Protokoll, sammanträden med församlingarna i Stockholm, Göteborg och Malmö (1940-1949)

    In file number E 5 are minutes from meetings and other records concerning cooperation between the Jewish community of Gothenburg and its counterparts in Stockholm and Malmö, primarily regarding refugee aid. The file include the minutes of the Jewish Community of Stockholm's Children Department, protocols from meetings between Ivar Philipson, David Köpniwsky and Michael Wächter, a meeting agenda for the board meeting of the Committee for the Recued of 1945, agendas for meetings with social workers (kuratorsammanträden), documents of the Relief Committee of Gothenburg, documents regarding the...

  3. 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).

  4. 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...

  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. 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...