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Holding Institution: Riksarkivet

  1. 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.

  2. 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...

  3. 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...

  4. 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...

  5. 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.

  6. 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...

  7. 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...

  8. 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.

  9. 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...

  10. 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).

  11. 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...

  12. 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...

  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...