Judiska församlingen i Göteborg, E 12

The records were preserved by the Jewish Community of Gothenburg and were transferred to the Regional Archive in Gothenburg in 1980. 

Judiska församlingen i Göteborg, E 12 

One folder containing textual records. Part of no. E 5.  

E 12 contains records concerning the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee’s refugee activities between 1944 and 1957. Most of the records are accounts of the different activities the Swedish part of the committee undertook and estimations of how many prisoners were liberated from concentration camps and when. The series also includes much correspondence between the Swedish branch of the AJJDC and other parts of the committee. Many letters are addressed to Julius Hüttner, the chairman of the Refugee Committee [of the Jewish Community] in Gothenburg. Among these letters are a few concerning 150 Turkish-Jewish refugees who traveled aboard the _SS Drottningholm_ bound for Liverpool and the correspondent’s efforts to sort out the refugees’ identification papers and travel documents. 

Permission is required and should be obtained in advance. Applications are made to the Jewish Community of Gothenburg.