The Archives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Jewish issues)

Collection

Holding institution:: Archives of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland

Title (official language):: Ulkoministeriön arkisto: juutalaisiin liittyvä aineisto

Scope and content:: The archives contain special issues concerning foreigners willing to enter Finland (1 file: UM 20 U): correspondence, reports, and newspaper clippings concerning foreigners, including Jewish refugees from Austria, Germany, Poland, and the Baltic countries, willing to enter Finland in the 1920s to 1950s. The records are part of the Archives of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland. The archives also contain refugee statistics and various records concerning refugees and vagrants (1 file, UM 20 Ö), some of them Jewish, including deportations of Jews from Finland to Germany and Finnish Jews living in Nazi occupied countries. The archives also hold Foreign Ministry's correspondence and reports from the years 1918–1981 concerning the situation of the Jews in Finland, Europe and Israel, Jewish refugees in Finland, and Jewish organizations under the heading “Jewish Question” (juutalaiskysymys) (5 files, UM 61).

Archival history:: The Archives of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland was founded immediately after the founding of the Ministry in 1918. The collections contain documents and information important for research on Finland’s foreign policy and the history of Finland’s international relations.

Administrative/biographical history:: The collections of the Archives of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs contain documents concerning Jewish refugees, Israel and Holocaust-related material between the years 1918 to 1981.

Subject terms:: Correspondence; Holocaust; Holocaust--Deportation; Jewish Question; Migration; Newspaper clippings; Refugees; Statistics; World War II