Archival Descriptions

Displaying items 1 to 20 of 28
Language of Description: English
Country: Denmark
  1. Landsarkivet for Sjælland, Lolland-Falster & Bornholm

    • Provincial archives of Sealand, Provincial archives of Sealand, Lolland-Falster & Bornholm
    • Rigsarkivet
    • Landsarkivet for Sjælland, Lolland-Falster & Bornholm
    • English
    • records and files from local and regional authorities and institutions in Sealand, Lolland-Falster, Moen and Bornholm. The collections date back to the 12th century, and today there are more than 140 kilometres of shelving.

    Landsarkivet for Sjælland collected and stored mainly archival material from local government authorities (e.g., police, courts and ecclesiastical authorities), but some collections also passed from the Zealand estates and from private individuals. In the archive database Daisy one can find tables of contents of the files that are found in provincial archives of Zealand's collection. The collection filled 50,000 linear metres in 2008.

  2. Flygtningedatabasen 1933-1945

    • Refugee Database 1933-1945
    • Rigsarkivet
    • Flygtningedatabasen 1933-1945
    • English
    • 1933-1945
    • files of 8.160 refugees

    Database has files of 8.160 refugees: 1) political and Jewish refugees, some of which stayed for a shorter or a longer period of time in Denmark, 2) refugees who have been rejected at the border, 3) person who sought asylum in vain either from abroad or from family and friends.

  3. Udlændingesager 1926-1983

    • UDL
    • Files of Foreigners
    • Rigsarkivet
    • Udlændingesager 1926-1983
    • English
    • 1926-1983
    • Original, documentation m.m

    Personal files of foreigners coming to Denmark during 1926-1983.

  4. The Danish Refugee Administration in Sweden

    • Rigsarkivet
    • Den Danske Flygtningeadministration i Sverige
    • Danish, English
    • 782 parcels

    The General Department handled the assistance to refugees who were not in work and not stayed in barracks/ garrison: clothing assistance, lodging, maintenance, social assistance for elderly, mothers with children, pregnant women, medical and dental assistance, help in illness, death, help to the Danish Brigade personnel and its families. Legal assistance was transferred to the Refugee Office Secretariat.

  5. Ministry of Social Affairs

    • Kontoret for Offentlig Forsog
    • Office of Public Social Welfare
    • Rigsarkivet
    • 2. Kontor
    • Danish, English
    • 5 parcels

    Handled the relief aid to deported Danes in Germany (emergency food parcels, etc.). The information is found in special records in the Journals Files. The information are found in special records in the Journal Files: - File no. 820: Internees. - File no. 850: Communists. - File no. 880: Jews, political prisoners.

  6. Ministry of Foreign Affairs Stockholm

    • Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Stockholm, diplomatic representation, The legation refugee office
    • Rigsarkivet
    • Udenrigsministeriet Stockholm
    • Danish, English
    • 45 parcels

    Concerns Danish refugees in Sweden - both resistance fighters and Jews. The name index is used as the entrance to the files.

  7. Bertelsen, Aage, Private Archive

    • Rigsarkivet
    • Bertelsen, Aage, Privatarkiv
    • Danish, English
    • 1943-1964
    • 1 parcel

    Material concerning Jews transfer to Sweden in 1943 and issues after the war related to that, 1943-1964, pcl. 2.

  8. George F. Duckwitz, Private Archive

    • Rigsarkivet
    • George F. Duckwitz, privatrarkiv
    • Danish, English
    • 1943
    • 1 parcel

    Papers concerning the action against the Danish Jews, pcl. 1.

  9. Werner Karl Rudolf Best, Private Archive

    • Rigsarkivet
    • Werner Karl Rudolf Best, privatarkiv
    • Danish, English
    • 1942-1944
    • 2 parcels

    Manuscripts and material collections, Diary 1942-1944 (pcl. 4-5 or Film S-13200-S-13201)

  10. The Danish Defence Archives (FOARK), The collection from the Occupation

    • FOARK
    • Rigsarkivet
    • Forsvarets Arkiver , Besættelsestidssamlingen
    • Danish, English
    • 1940-1955
    • 7 parcels

    Members of the Armed Forces: Dead, wanted, arrested and deported to concentration camps, 1940-1955, pcl. 93-98.

  11. Copenhagen City Court

    • Rigsarkivet
    • Københavns Byret
    • Danish, English
    • 1945-1960
    • 915 parcels

    Copenhagen City Court, 21. to 25. Department of the legal proceedings after the war Contains the majority of the lawsuits brought against the Danes in German service, as well as to senior German officials

  12. Manuscript Collection, IV. Denmark-Norway's general history

    • Rigsarkivet
    • Håndskriftsamlingen, IV. Danmark-Norges almindelige historie
    • Danish, English
    • 3 parcels

    Reports from Jews and others regarding their escape to Sweden (made after the war) - IV T 48 O. Barfoed, correspondence and reports, pcl. 224-226.

  13. The Danish Brigade in Sweden (DANFORCE), The command

    • Rigsarkivet
    • Den Danske Brigade i Sverige, Kommandoen
    • Danish, English
    • 1943
    • 119 parcels

    Concerns the Danish police force which was established in Sweden from 1943. It consisted mainly of escaped resistance fighters

  14. Board of Health Reviews in Official employments (civil servants)

    • Rigsarkivet
    • Nævnet for Helbredsbedømmelser i Tjenestemandssager
    • Danish, English
    • 1947-1981
    • 11 parcels
  15. Copenhagen County Southern Birks (Court) Police

    • Rigsarkivet
    • Københavns Amts Søndre Birks Politi
    • Danish, English
    • 1945-1951
    • 68 parcels

    Contains lawsuits brought against Danes in German service.

  16. Ministry of Justice, 3. office

    • Rigsarkivet
    • Justitsministeriet, 3. Ekspeditionskontor
    • Danish, English
    • 1943
    • 1 parcel

    Foreign Ministry's letter about the German actions against the Jews in October 1943 and the Ministry subsequent efforts to release, pcl. 2.

  17. Hermann Von Hanneken, Private Archive

    • Rigsarkivet
    • Hermann Von Hanneken, privatarkiv
    • Danish, English
    • 1942-1945
    • 1 parcel
  18. Copenhagen County North Birks (Court) Police

    • Rigsarkivet
    • Københavns Amts Nordre Birks Politi
    • Danish, English
    • 1945-1953
    • 37 parcels

    Contains lawsuits brought against Danes in German service.

  19. Frants Hvass, Private Archive

    • Rigsarkivet
    • Frants Hvass, Privatarkiv
    • Danish, English
    • 1944
    • 1 parcel

    Photographs from Theresienstadt, june 1944, pcl. 2-3.

  20. Frederiksberg Police

    • Rigsarkivet
    • Frederiksberg Politi
    • Danish, English
    • 1945-1950
    • 185 parcels

    Contains lawsuits brought against Danes in German service. Includes also files other than treason proceedings.