List of Jews Arriving in Sweden – 1946

6,675 Records

Holocaust · Survivors · Refugees/DPs · Sweden

Introduction by YIVO Institute for Jewish Research

Background

The Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS) is the world’s oldest refugee agency, formally incorporated in 1903. HIAS emerged from the work of several agencies which supported Jews fleeing pogroms in Russia and Eastern Europe beginning in the 1880s.

This data set comes from records of HIAS’s work in France during the war years. HIAS provided assistance to refugees in the form of legal support, monetary aid, and family reunification services, among other things, during this timeframe.

Fields Recorded

The fields for this database are as follows:

YIVO Set #
Image # (Scan image number within the YIVO folder)       
Surname
Given name / Maiden name
Date of birth / Age
Place of birth
Last residence
Other – Surname  (names of people who were sent greetings)
Other – Given name (names of people who were sent greetings)
Nationality
Source (List #)
Comments

Below are the names of the lists within this collection. Lists in French are translated below the French title.:

List Description
List 1 Jews of French Nationality Who Arrived In Sweden
List 2 List of Czechoslovakian Nationality Who Arrived in Sweden
List 3 Jews of Austrian Nationality Who Arrived In Sweden
List 4 Jews of Different Nationality Who Arrived In Sweden
List 5 Jews of Jugoslavian Nationality Who Arrived In Sweden
List 6 Jewish Survivors Registered in Czestochowa at the end of June 1945
List 7 List of Refugees Arrived 15-Apr-1946
List 8 List of Jews Who Arrived in Sweden After 26-Jun
List 9 List of Jews Who Arrived in Sweden After 26-Jun (Undated)
List 10 List of Jews Who Arrived in Sweden
List 11 Liste Des Rapatries De Bergenbelsen Venant de Vruxelles
List of Repatriates from Bergen Belsen Coming from Brussels
Acknowledgements

The information contained in this database was indexed from the files available from the Center for Jewish History’s collection of scanned source documents from the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. This data set is from the “Records of HIAS-HICEM Main Office in Europe (RG 245.5, France I-IV)”, File: Box 87, Folder: France IV-343 and 344, Reel: 19.37). It can be accessed online at archives.cjh.org and

archives.cjh.org

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May 2025

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