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The origins of the Swedish Red Cross date back to 1865 as Föreningen för frivillig vård av sårade och sjuka i fält (Association for the Voluntary Care of the Wounded and Sick in the Field) was formed according to the guidelines laid down at a congress in Geneva the previous year and contained in the well-known Geneva Convention of 1864. The association's first president was the Duke of Östergötland, ...

The Civil Defence Section was formed on 1 July 1953 when the County Administrative Office was organized into sections. As early as 1944, the County Administrative Office established a defense department due to the 1944 Civil Defense Act.

Consists of forms, correspondence, manuscripts, and photographs collected by Pia-Kristina Garde [donor] from Holocaust survivors who had been evacuated to Sweden after liberation. Inspired by the 1945 book "De dödsdömda vittna" ("Those Who Were Sentenced to Death Witness), which was based on questionnaires given to the survivors, the donor searched for these survivors to find out what happened to them ...

Wanda Rotbart (formerly Natka Kronenberg and Wanda Levenkopf), was born to Moishe and Chava Kronenberg in Warsaw, Poland where Moishe worked as a furrier. There, she attended school until the Nazi invasion of Poland in 1939, when she had to suspend her education during her second year of high school. A year later in 1940, Wanda and her family moved into the Warsaw Ghetto. 1942 Wanda’s mother and sister ...

Bestandsbeschreibung 06. Jan. 1850 in Berlin geboren 1857 - 1863 Besuch einer siebenklassigen Privatschule 1863 - 1866 Besuch eines Gymnasiums 1866 - 1870 kaufmännische Lehre in Berlin 1870 - 1878 Kommis im Bankgeschäft S. + L. Rothschild in Berlin 1872 Eintritt in die Sozialdemokratische Arbeiterpartei 1875 Delegierter des Gothaer Vereinigungsparteitages des Allgemeinen Deutschen Arbeitervereins und ...

Ingeborg Herlitz (18981982), daughter of Karl Herlitz (1853-1935) and Gerda Fredholm (1862-1923), was a Swedish politician, insurance officer, and health counselor. From 1945 to 1946, Herlitz served as a counselor at Lärbro military Hospital in Gotland, providing care to former prisoners of concentration camps (from Germany, Poland, and various other countries) suffering from tuberculosis. She also, ...

The archive, which is the Jewish congregation of Norrköping’s congregational archive, is structured thematically in a number of series, each containing a number of volumes (boxes). Some of these volumes include documents related to the Holocaust. Most importantly, there is one volume (F 4) that includes documents relating to Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany and Holocaust survivors who came to Norrköping, ...

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 ...