Archival Descriptions

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  1. 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 ...

  2. 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.

  3. 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 ...

  4. 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...

  5. 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...

  6. 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...

  7. 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.

  8. Statens utlänningskommission Passbyrån

    1. Statens Utlänningskommission
    • Passbyrån
    • Passport Office
    • Riksarkivet
    • Statens utlänningskommission, Passbyrån
    • English
    • 1917-1952
    • 144,5 linear meters of textual records.

    The archive includes 66 volumes containing entry cards for the registration of foreigners (including Holocaust survivors) who arrived in Sweden through the Red Cross and UNRRA in 1945. These cards generally have notations regarding Swedish placement in camps, departures, and other details. They are divided into three series: one for refugees who remained in Sweden as of 1946, one for deceased individuals from 1945 to 1946, and one series of departed refugees organized by nationality. Additionally, there are police interrogation records for refugees who did not have a so-called 'central doss...

  9. 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...

  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, 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.

  12. 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...

  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. Klein-Silberstein family. Collection

    This collection contains twelve photos, among which a wedding photo of Josef Klein and Lotte Silberstein, photos of Silberstein and Kantorowicz family members including one under the Eiffel tower, photos of the Klein sisters including one taken at the monastery in Sugny where they were hidden and a post-war photo of the Klein sisters taken upon arrival in Canada.

  15. Diplomatic service passport issued by the Republic of Liberia to Kelman Charles Mincberg. Item

    A diplomatic service passport issued by the Republic of Liberia, represented by Baron O. de Bogaerde, Minister Plenipotentiary, to Kelman Charles Mincberg, granting him diplomatic immunity and allowing them to travel to Spain and Portugal.

  16. Index cards on Jews from Belgium interned in or deported from France. Collection Fichier Drancy

    This collection consists of index cards containing information on 9,765 Jewish men, women and children who in general lived in Belgium before the Second World War and who were interned in or deported from French internment camps during the war. The group of index cards for a specific person can contain a file card drafted by the Sicherheitspolizei-Sicherheitsdienst in 1941-1944 in case of a person who fled Belgium in or after 1941 and a research request filed by a relative. Every group of index cards for a specific person contains handwritten file cards with information gathered post-war by...

  17. Karny-Chamech family. Collection

    This collection contains: pre-war photos of the Karny-Chamech family from Liège ; a group photo of the Comité de l'Union Sioniste de Liège, 1928 ; pre-war photos of Léa Karny, her future husband Stanislas Gol and her future brother-in-law Samson Ajzenberg while in medical school ; war-time photos of Léa Karny and husband Stanislas Gol in Portugal ; photos of Stanislas Gol, husband of Léa Karny, while serving in the Brigade Piron ; war-time photos of Jean Gol, son of Léa Karny and Stanislas Gol ; post-war photos of meetings of the Brigade Piron ; military documents of Stanislas Gol and Samso...

  18. Jenny Gutwirth. Interview

    In this interview Jenny Gutwirth talks about: her family fleeing Italy and surviving the war in Switzerland ; the survival story of her husband Emmanuel Neustetel, including the fate of his father Mojzesz Neustetel as a forced labourer in France, going into hiding in Laeken and Emmanuel’s band with his rescuer Frans Verbiest.

  19. Give Them a Face (France) portrait collection. Collection

    This collection contains over 4,200 portraits of Jewish men, women and children from Belgium, whom have been deported from the French camps Drancy, Angers, Beaune-la-Rolande, Compiègne, Pithiviers and Lyon, to Auschwitz-Birkenau, Sobibor, Maidanek and Kaunas between March 1942 and August 1944. Among the deportees, four groups can be distinguished : persons that had lived in Belgium and whom had emigrated to France legally before the beginning of the war, persons that fled from Belgium to France in May 1940 or afterwards, children born out of these refugees in France and persons arrested by ...

  20. Haber-Margulier family. Collection

    The photos in this collection depict the following : Israel (Isy) Haber's Bar Mitzvah ; the Haber-Margulier family as refugees in Nice, 1942 ; Zallel Haber in his army uniform as a soldier during World War I ; Sender Haber, cousin of Zallel Haber, as a liaison officer during World War I ; pre-war photos of Israel (Isy) and Dora (Dolly) Haber ; Dora (Dolly) Haber as a dancer ; the Haber and Margulier grandparents. The collection also contains two fragile precious prints that were not digitized, but which are accessible at the Kazerne Dossin documentation centre : "Auto-Emanzipation" (preface...