Gunnar Josephsons arkiv

Gunnar Josephson (1889-1972) was a member of the Executive Board (Föreståndarna) of the Jewish community of Stockholm (Mosaiska församlingen i Stockholm) from the early 1930s, and the board's director from 1936, to the 1960s. Josephson was deeply involved in the Swedish relief work for the Jews of Europe between 1933 and 1945. The archive consists of a box of correspondence, including correspondence with Archbishop Erling Eidem about his response to the deportations of Norwegian Jews. The collection also contains correspondence with and about Salomon Adler-Rudel (1894-1975), a German-Jewish refugee worker in exile in London, concerning his rescue activities in Sweden, as well as an exchange of letters between Josephson and the German-Jewish lawyer in exile, Hans Schäffer (1886-1967). The collection also includes a memo with Josephson's critical reflections on a 1933 meeting on Jewish assimilation as a strategy to avoid anti-Semitism.