Archival Descriptions

Displaying items 1 to 20 of 28
Holding Institution: Rigsarkivet
  1. 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.

  2. Danish Red Cross

    • Rigsarkivet
    • Dansk Røde Kors
    • Danish, English
    • 1939-1955
    • 42 parcels
  3. 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

  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. 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.

  6. Frode A. Toft, Private Archive

    • Rigsarkivet
    • Frode A. Toft, Privat arkiv
    • Danish, English
    • 1930-1980
    • 7 parcels
  7. 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.

  8. 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.

  9. 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

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

    • Rigsarkivet
    • Nævnet for Helbredsbedømmelser i Tjenestemandssager
    • Danish, English
    • 1947-1981
    • 11 parcels
  11. The Police Intelligence Service

    • Rigsarkivet
    • Politiets Efterretningstjeneste
    • Danish, English
    • 1945-1950
    • 691 parcels
  12. The Prosecutor General

    • Rigsarkivet
    • Rigsadvokaten
    • Danish, English
    • 1945-1952
    • 143 parcels

    Investigations on whether there should be raised charges against Danes who had worked for the Germans. Files of individuals.

  13. Commissioner of Police, The search service

    • Rigsarkivet
    • Rigspolitichefen, Eftersøgningstjenesten
    • Danish, English
    • 2 parcels
  14. The Danish National Police

    • Rigsarkivet
    • Rigspolitiet
    • Danish, English
    • 1941-1945
    • 13 parcels

    Contains (possibly) information of the investigation of the illegal escape routes across the Sound (Øresund – between Denmark and Sweden)

  15. Udenrigsministeriet

    • Ministry of Foreign Affairs
    • Rigsarkivet
    • Udenrigsministeriet
    • English
    • 1909-1945
    • Records filed by subject
  16. 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.

  17. 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.

  18. 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.

  19. 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.

  20. Frants Hvass, Private Archive

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

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