Metadata: Collection of the Jewish Museum: Assorted records
Collection
- Country:
- Sweden
- Holding institution:
- Jewish Museum of Stockholm
- Holding institution (official language):
- Judiska museet
- Postal address:
- Själagårdsgatan 19, 111 31 Stockholm
- Phone number:
- +46 8 30 15 00
- Web address:
- www.judiskamuseet.se
- Email:
- info@judiskamuseet.se
- Reference number:
- JUD00685-JUD00691, JUD00693-JUD00695, JUD00698-JUD00714, JUD00717-JUD00719, JUD00729-JUD00730, JUD00748, JUD00750, JUD00770-JUD00773, JUD01018, JUD01022, JUD01024, JUD01036-JUD01037, JUD01058, JUD01064
- Title:
- Collection of the Jewish Museum: Assorted records
- Title (official language):
- Judiska Museets samling: Övrigt
- Creator/accumulator:
- Jewish Museum Stockholm
- Date(s):
- 1807/1984
- Date note:
- 1900s; predominantly 1940s
- Language:
- Swedish
- German
- Ladino
- Russian
- French
- Extent:
- 1 linear metre (1 large box)
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Photographic images
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
The collection consists of a wide array of assorted documents that have come into the museums possession, through donations and accessions, between the years 1988 and 2019.
The collection includes various invitations and programs for events. One is a programme for a literature event at the Stockholm City Hall in 1951, in celebration of the 100th anniversary of the bookstore Samson & Wallin, which had been reconstructed and renamed Nordiska Bokhandeln, by Oscar Hirsch. Another is from the official celebration of Denmark’s constitution on 5 May 1944 in Skansen in Stockholm. At that time the majority of the Jews of Denmark were exiled in Sweden. From around the same time there is also a programme for a rally in support of occupied Norway. The collection also holds an issue of the Swedish daily Aftonbladet from 8 May 1945 as well as newspaper clippings of the German capitulation in World War II.
There are also a number of personal documents relating to Nazi persecution of the Jews and the Holocaust, including an envelope addressed Mr J Feymulowitz in Silesia, stamped “return to sender” in German (1942), a photograph of young Jewish refugee girls arriving in Kungsbacka railway station with so called Kindertransport from Berlin in 1939, a work certificate for Valentine Simon from the Theresienstadt ghetto, where she was a chef, from 1943 and a photograph, most likely of Valentine Simon, and a bank card with the text "Die Bank der Jüdischen Selbstverwaltung, Theresienstadt", as well as a registration card from Czechoslovak repatriation office for Valentine Simon. There are also various documents, including German passports stamped with a red “J”, relating to the married couple Fany and Chaim Werbel. There are also “protective documents” issued by the Swedish Red Cross for Istvanne and Katalin/Katharina Reiner (née Flesch), as well as a copy of a missing person flyer for Otto Freund from Vienna as well as copies of Swedish residence permits for Jewish refugees.
Several records are related to the Chief Rabbi of Stockholm, Marcus Ehrenpreis, who had previously been the Chief Rabbi of Sofia and Herzl’s right hand at the First Zionist Congress in Basel in 1897. Among these documents there is one regarding aid to Bulgaria after an earthquake, some handwritten notes about Bulgaria, the draft of a telegram sent to King Ferdinand of Bulgaria in 1915 and some notes in solitreo/ladino.
In the collection there is also some assembled antisemitica. For example, there is one photo negative of an antisemitic poster and an antisemitic flyer from the Deutsche Fichte-Bund. There is also some correspondence between the Swedish Jews Ragnar Gottfarb and Nils Berman regarding the Swedish actress Zarah Leander and Nazism. There are also two signed photographs by Max Goldstein (Mago), who came to Sweden as a refugee child in the 1930s, document regarding citizenship and residency for Taube Lapidus from 1880, a stack of postcards from the Mandate for Palestine and a diploma from the Jewish National Fund (KKL) in memory of someone named Brummer.
In a separate box there are 7 printed doctoral dissertations and letters. In another box, marked E Cohn, there are letters that also contain poems, embroidery and illustrations. The letters are written in various languages and are mailed from places such as Åbo (Turku), Seesen, Kiel, Braunschweig, Gothenburg, Königsberg, Copenhagen, Flensburg. Names mentioned are: E. Cohn, Iversen, J (?) Meyer, Dine Salomon, Levi Moses, Schwab, Wolf Levi, Seligman, Meyer Salomon Spanier, Lazarus Juda, Isaac Hirsch, Samuel Levi, Hirsch, Cohn, Simon Salomon Warburg, Berwald, Sandel, LCH Deharde, Schultze, Wolff, Igeburg Wraamann.
- Archival history:
- The collected material came into the museum’s collection between 1988 and 2019.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The Jewish Museum Foundation (Stiftelsen judiska museet) was founded in 1987 by Viola and Aron Neuman. Initially the museum was located in a former storage unit for carpets in the harbour of Stockholm, where exhibitions about Jewish religious and cultural life were shown. In 1992 the museum was relocated to the city and the activities of the museum were broadened. In 2019 the museum moved to the premises of Stockholm’s first synagogue. The collections of the museum consist of objects and archival records that have been donated as well as actively collected by the museum.
- Access points: locations:
- Sweden
- Subject terms:
- Antisemitism
- Holocaust
- Personal records
- Refugees
- World War II
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum in Stockholm
- Author of the description:
- Yael Fried; Jewish Museum of Stockholm; November 2020