Metadata: The Hollander Companies: Jewish organisations in Stockholm
Collection
- Country:
- Sweden
- Holding institution:
- Swedish National Archives in Marieberg
- Holding institution (official language):
- Riksarkivet Marieberg
- Postal address:
- Box 12541, 102 29 Stockholm
- Phone number:
- 010-476 70 00
- Web address:
- https://riksarkivet.se/startpage
- Email:
- riksarkivet@riksarkivet.se
- Reference number:
- SE/RA/740105/Ö_2
- Title:
- The Hollander Companies: Jewish organisations in Stockholm
- Title (official language):
- Hollanderbolagen: Judiska organisationer i Stockholm
- Creator/accumulator:
- Hollander, Fritz
- Date(s):
- 1936/1988
- Language:
- Swedish
- German
- Hebrew
- Extent:
- 102 volumes
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
The collection consists of five different sections, comprising 102 volumes altogether.
The first section (Ö_2_a) contains four volumes with documents linked to the World Jewish Congress. The documents in the first section range from 1936 to 1956. The first volume contains letters and writings from the World Jewish Congress between 1936 and 1944. The letters are divided according to the different countries they were written from. The volume also includes documents related to the Congress, the Relief department, circulated questionnaires and the Zeire Misrachi (the religious-Zionist youth society). The second volume includes minutes and writings concerning the World Jewish Congress between 1945 and 1948. The third volume includes writings concerning the World Jewish Congress between 1946 and 1949, as well as brochures, minutes, reports and correspondence. The last volume contains documents from 1949 to 1956.
The second section (Ö_2_b) contains 19 volumes with documents related to Zionist organisations. The documents range from 1957 to 1992, and they include Fritz Hollander’s correspondence with and documents, reports, publications, brochures, general director’s letters, copies of minutes, annual reports, lectures, articles, conferences and projects related to various Zionist organisations, such as Jewish Agency, World Zionist Organisation, the Zionist Federation in Sweden (of which Fritz Hollander was the chairman), as well as in the rest of Scandinavia and Europe, Keren Hayesod and the Solidarity Committee for Israel. The 19 volumes are roughly organised in chronological order.
The third section (Ö_2_c) is a series with material related to Jewish foreign relief organisations. The material largely concerns Jewish co-operation for the development of education and culture. 21 volumes (Ö_2_ca) concern the European Council of Jewish Community Services between 1964 and 1993, as well as its previous organisation Standing Conference, founded just after the Second World War. The material mainly comprises correspondence and documents from meetings. 8 volumes (Ö_2_cb) concern the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture between 1965 and 1997, and the material includes reports, summaries from grants, membership information and correspondence. 11 volumes (Ö_2_cc) contain material linked to other foreign aid relief organisations between 1947 and 1995, including correspondence from and with Joint Distribution Committee, American Jewish Committee, Association of Jewish Charities and Welfare Funds, Council of Jewish Federations of Welfare Funds, International Council on Jewish Social and Welfare Services, Jewish Welfare Board, World Council of Synagogues, the Israeli embassy, World Union of Jewish Students, various Jewish cultural personalities, Scandinavian Jewish Youth Society, Centre for Jewish Education and Culture in Scandinavia, European Association for Conservative Judaism and World Leadership conference for Jewish Education.
The fourth section (Ö_2_d) deals with Jewish organisations in Stockholm. It comprises 32 volumes divided into five categories. Four volumes (Ö_2_da) contain minutes, annual reports and correspondence related to the Jewish Centre in Stockholm and WIZO from 1964 to 1992. Four volumes (Ö_2_db) contain minutes, annual reports and correspondence in chronological order related to the Judaica Foundation from 1962 to 1995. Six volumes (Ö_2_dc) contain annual reports, copies of minutes, correspondence and documents related to the Chinuch society between 1963 and 1995. The Chinuch society was responsible for schools and youth centres. 16 volumes (Ö_2_dc) concern the Jewish Community of Stockholm. The material from 1957 to 1994 includes, for example: correspondence with lay and religious leadership, minutes, correspondence with congregations outside of Stockholm, funds and societies. The last two volumes (Ö_2_dd) concern the foundation Jewish Youth Fund from 1966 to 1994.
The last section (Ö_2_e) concerns other Jewish organisations. It comprises seven volumes, with material such as correspondence, minutes and economic reports related to the Society Svekiv Swedish Kibbutz Friends, Adas Jisroel, Institute for Jewish Culture, Scandinavian Institute for Jewish Education and Culture and Stockholm’s Kosher AB.
- Archival history:
- The archive was donated to the State Archive in 1997.
- Administrative/biographical history:
-
This collection belongs to the business archive related to the so-called Hollander Companies. The Hollander Companies were run by Friedrich (Fritz) Hollander, who was born in Germany in 1915 to the merchant Julius Jeshajahu Hollander and his wife Paula (née Gutmann). Fritz Hollander died in Stockholm in 2004. He grew up working within the family business F. Hollander & Co, founded in 1862. He emigrated to Sweden in 1933, where he became the CEO of the family business, as well as the company AB Baltiska Skinnkompaniet that traded furs and leather. The Hollander company had local branches in, for example, Stockholm, Tel Aviv, Montevideo, Buenos Aires, Montreal and Bulawayo. Fritz Hollander married Camilla (née Ettlinger), who was daughter to Jacob Ettlinger, the chairman of the orthodox synagogue Adat Jisrael in Stockholm (see archive SE/RA/720483 at the Swedish State Archive). Fritz Hollander was also the lay leader of the Jewish community in Stockholm from 1962 and leader of the Swedish Zionist Bund from 1968. He was an important figure in setting up, for example, the Jewish Hillel school in Stockholm.
Jacob Ettlinger established the company AB Metall & Bergsprodukter in 1917 and settled in Stockholm. He became the chairman of the orthodox community Adat Jisrael and was also involved in matters of the Jewish afternoon school and the poor relief in the Jewish Community of Stockholm. He was married to Danish-born Jeanette Ettlinger and they had three children: Camilla Hollander, Ruth Ettlinger and Joseph Ettlinger. Jacob Ettlinger died in 1952. For more material related to Jacob Ettlinger and his family, see archive SE/RA/720483 (Jacob Ettlinger’s personal archive) at the Swedish State Archive.
- Access, restrictions:
- Access to the collection is restricted to academic research. Permission is required and should be obtained in advance from the Hollander family. Their contact details can be requested from the National Archives by e-mail: riksarkivet@riksarkivet.se.
- Finding aids:
- The index can be found in a folder in the archive and in the archive’s online database, NAD (Nationell Arkivdatabas).
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum in Stockholm
- Author of the description:
- Maja Hultman