Judiska församlingen i Göteborg, E 5

In 1933, the Jewish Community of Gothenburg, like many of its counterparts elsewhere, formed a relief committee in order to raise funds and carry out relief work of different forms for refugees from Nazi Germany. Until 1936, the committee spent nearly all of its funds on so-called travel aid, i.e., grants given to refugees to assist in them leaving Sweden to emigrate further. However, since 1936, most funds were used to support refugees in Sweden. Individual members of the Jewish Community in Gothenburg also helped refugees privately and through organizations like the Refugee Office in Gothenburg (Flyktingkontoret i Göteborg). After the war, a joint local non-confessional committee was formed in order to carry out aid and help rehabilitate Holocaust survivors who had come to the Gothenburg area at the end of the war, and in July 1945, the Regional Committee for the Victims of the Nazi Concentration Camps (Göteborgs länskommitté för koncentrationslägrens offer). These local committees also received financial support from the Swedish government, the Gothenburg municipality, the Jewish community of Stockholm, and American organizations, not least the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, which had a branch office in Stockholm. 

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 5 

An index is available on request from the Regional State Archives in Gothenburg. 

0,15 linear meters (one box)  

In file number E 5 are minutes from meetings and other records concerning cooperation between the Jewish community of Gothenburg and its counterparts in Stockholm and Malmö, primarily regarding refugee aid. The file include the minutes of the Jewish Community of Stockholm's Children Department, protocols from meetings between Ivar Philipson, David Köpniwsky and Michael Wächter, a meeting agenda for the board meeting of the Committee for the Recued of 1945, agendas for meetings with social workers (kuratorsammanträden), documents of the Relief Committee of Gothenburg, documents regarding the cooperation with American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, Refugee aid in Borås (a small town near Gothenburg), legal aid, aid for refugees to travel further, and petition submitted to the Swedish government.  

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