Länsstyrelsen i Malmöhus län, civilförsvarssektionen

The Civil Defence Section was formed on 1 July 1953 when the County Administrative Office was organized into sections. As early as 1944, the County Administrative Office established a defense department due to the 1944 Civil Defense Act. The register cards have been digitized and available in the National Archives' reading room computers and thus accessible at all the National Archives' facilities in Sweden. Some documents in the archive may be subject to confidentiality. A confidentiality assessment will be carried out by the archive before the documents are disclosed. There is an index in the National Archives' Database (NAD): https://sok.riksarkivet.se/arkiv/bdUIniUI34cK4HyLO3G4A1 Among other records, the Civil Defense Section's archive contains documentation concerning Holocaust refugees, around 1941-1949. The series Ö I: a _Registerkort över flyktingar inkomna til landet_ contains 29 boxes with more than 20,000 register cards of refugees and survivors from concentration camps, who came to Sweden from 1944 to 1946. The cards include their name, date of birth, place of residence, nationality, date of arrival and the name of the reception center where they were received, and sometimes information on transfers. On some cards there is a note if the person was Jewish, in the form of "M", "Mosaic" or "Jew". The register cards were filled out based on information assembled at refugee centers in southern Sweden and later collated at the County Administrative Board of Malmöhus County. In Ö I: b _Fotografier av flyktingar inkomna till landet_ there are also 16 card boxes with photographs and other documents relating to refugees. One volume in the Series Ö I c _ Övriga liggare och register rörande flyktingar_, includes the published _List of Jews who have arrived in Sweden May 1st--June 25th 1945_. The list can also be found in the National Library in Stockholm as well as in a few other archives in Sweden. Series Ö II _Handlingar rörande Malmö civilförsvarsområde_ also contains several miscellaneous lists of refugees, reports on refugee centers, information on the preparation and administration of the reception of the refugees and survivors, as well as statistical reports. Series ÖIII includes (in volumes no 1-3) lists of refugees, summaries and reports from refugee centers and medical records. Series Ö IV, ÖV, ÖVI, ÖVII and ÖVIII contain similar records from other areas in the district.