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Holding Institution: Riksarkivet Täby

  1. 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...

  2. 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...

  3. Emigrationsavdelningen

    1. Jewish Community of Stockholm
    • Riksarkivet Täby
    • Emigrationsavdelningen
    • English
    • 1941-1966
    • 40,5 linear meters.

    The department assisted refugees and survivors to emigrate to 'third countries'. The archive contains information about where Holocaust refugees and survivors went and how emigration was organized. The archive contains personal registers of cases handled 1946-1962 in 8 volumes. There is also a questionnaire to the 1945 rescued about emigration plans etc. in 1946, questionnaires about desired emigration destination, correspondence with Hias and other foreign aid organizations that partly financed Jewish emigration from Sweden, and 336 volumes of personal files in emigration cases from 1945 t...

  4. 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.

  5. Registreringsavdelningen

    1. Jewish Community of Stockholm
    • Riksarkivet Täby
    • Registreringsavdelningen
    • English
    • 1944-1948
    • 9,6 linear meters of textual material.

    The archive contains lists and files compiled in the course of researching and registering deported Jews (e.g. for the purpose of sending aid) and Holocaust survivors. There are 19 volumes of registers of Jews researched (deported) in Germany or German-occupied countries 1944--1945, a four-volume register of Jews in Theresienstadt 1944--1945, a corresponding two-volume register of Jewish prisoners in Bergen-Belsen 1944--1945 and a volume of registers of prisoners in smaller camps 1944--1945. There is also an index of 1945 rescues and lists in 18 volumes of Jewish survivors in various countr...

  6. 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.

  7. 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 ...

  8. 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.