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Holding Institution: Riksarkivet

  1. 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...

  2. Parlamentariska undersökningskommittén ang flyktingsärenden och säkerhetstjänst

    • State commission on the treatment of refugees and the intelligence service
    • Sandlerkommissionen
    • Riksarkivet
    • Parlamentariska undersökningskommittén ang. flyktingsärenden och säkerhetstjänst. YK 984.
    • English
    • 1945-1947
    • 57 volumes of textual records.

    The archive contains 57 volumes of archive documents from the commission's assignments during the period 1945-1947. The series Personakter till anmälningsdiariet (F: 2) contains 390 files containing reports and other documents with information about refugee cases reported by aid organizations and private individuals because they were treated incorrectly by the authorities when they tried to come to or stay in Sweden as refugees. Many of these were Jews. There is an index of the files in volume C: 1. A selection of the reported cases is also summarized anonymously in the commission's report ...

  3. 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...

  4. 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...

  5. 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...

  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. 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 ...

  8. 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...

  9. 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.

  10. 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...

  11. 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...

  12. 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).

  13. 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.

  14. 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...

  15. Allmän korrespondens, Edmund Rapaports korrespondens

    1. The Jewish (Mosaic) Congregation of Stockholm
    2. Flyktingsektionen
    3. Inkomna Handlingar

    Mest rörande statistik; meddelanden till kuratorerna 1954-1956; korrespondens 1955-1956.

  16. Allmän korrespondens, David Köpniwskys (med fleras) korrespondens

    1. The Jewish (Mosaic) Congregation of Stockholm
    2. Flyktingsektionen
    3. Inkomna Handlingar
    • Riksarkivet
    • 1B
    • Swedish
    • 1948-1971
    • Kartonger.

    Korrespondens ordnad enligt ämne, t.ex. kulturutskottet, föreningar, emigration, rättshjälpsbyrån. Med redovisningar och rapporter rörande andra socialsektionens verksamhet m.m.

  17. Allmän Korrespondens, Allmän

    1. The Jewish (Mosaic) Congregation of Stockholm
    2. Flyktingsektionen
    3. Inkomna Handlingar
    • General Correspondence
    • Riksarkivet
    • 1A
    • Swedish
    • 1940-1945
    • Serien i kartonger.

    Arnheims korrespondens; Michaelis korrespondens; Stillschweigs korrespondens.

  19. 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.

  20. Övriga register över flyktingar

    1. The Jewish (Mosaic) Congregation of Stockholm
    2. Flyktingsektionen
    3. Register och Liggare
    4. Register över flyktingar i Sverige
    • Other registers of refugees
    • Riksarkivet
    • C
    • Swedish
    • 1944-1948
    • Serien i kortlådor.

    Danska flyktingar på Lidingö; 1946-1948 ankomna flyktingar; Fackarbetare.