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    <eadid>fi-002325-ek_valpo_i</eadid>
    <filedesc>
      <titlestmt>
        <titleproper>Valtiollisen poliisin I arkisto</titleproper>
      </titlestmt>
      <publicationstmt>
        <publisher>Kansallisarkisto</publisher>
        <address>
          <addressline>Rauhankatu 17</addressline>
          <addressline> 00170</addressline>
          <addressline>Helsinki</addressline>
          <addressline>FI</addressline>
          <addressline>+358 29 533 7000</addressline>
          <addressline>+358 9 176 302</addressline>
          <addressline>https://www.arkisto.fi/</addressline>
          <addressline>kirjaamo@arkisto.fi</addressline>
          <addressline>Finland</addressline>
        </address>
      </publicationstmt>
    </filedesc>
    <profiledesc>
      <creation>This file was exported automatically from the EHRI database administration tool and represents a work-in-progress.
        <date normal="20210102">2021-01-02T19:09:42.389Z</date>
      </creation>
      <langusage>
        <language langcode="eng">English</language>
      </langusage>
    </profiledesc>
  </eadheader>
  <archdesc level="fonds">
    <did>
      <unitid>EK-Valpo I</unitid>
      <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Valtiollisen poliisin I arkisto</unittitle>
      <langmaterial>
        <language langcode="fin" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Finnish</language>
        <language langcode="swe" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Swedish</language>
      </langmaterial>
      <repository>
        <corpname>Kansallisarkisto</corpname>
      </repository>
    </did>
    <processinfo encodinganalog="3.7.1">
      <p><![CDATA[Description was made by Filip Sikorski, on the basis of the "Arkistojen portti" [The Gate of the Archives] website, http://wiki.narc.fi/portti/index.php/Valtiollinen_poliisi.]]></p>
    </processinfo>
    <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
      <p><![CDATA[The archive includes personal cards, personal files, interrogation protocols, case files, reports, photos, and journals, among other things. The Holocaust-related records are only a small part of this vast collection. They are described as child collections.]]></p>
    </scopecontent>
    <appraisal encodinganalog="3.3.2">
      <p><![CDATA[In 1944 some parts of the archive were deliberately destroyed.]]></p>
    </appraisal>
    <processinfo encodinganalog="3.7.3">
      <p>
        <date><![CDATA[2014-03]]></date>
      </p>
    </processinfo>
    <dsc>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>EK-Valpo I, KD 1941, 901-1055</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">KD-asiakirjat</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">1 box</physdesc>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="fin" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Finnish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <processinfo encodinganalog="3.7.1">
          <p><![CDATA[The description was made by Filip Sikorski. The box was identified on the basis of Oula Silvennoinen's book *Salaiset aseveljet*.]]></p>
        </processinfo>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[The box includes correspondence, reports and other documents of the Rovaniemi division of the Finnish State Police (from the year 1941). The records concern mainly persons that were considered dangerous and POW camps in Northern Finland. Some records concern the cooperation of the Finnish State Police with the *Sicherheitspolizei*. ]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <bibliography encodinganalog="3.5.4">
          <p><![CDATA[Salaiset aseveljet: Suomen ja Saksan turvallisuuspoliisiyhteistyö 1933-1944 [Secret brothers-in-arms: The cooperation of the Finnish and German security police 1933-1944] / Oula Silvennoinen. – Helsinki: Otava, 2008.

Silvennoinen’s book has appeared also in German and Estonian.

Geheime Waffenbrüderschaft: Die sicherheitspolizeiliche Zusammenarbeit zwischen Finnland und Deutschland 1933-1944 / Oula Silvennoinen; translated by Klaus Rachel and Kaija Rachel. – Darmstadt: WBG, 2010.

Salajased relvavennad: Soome ja Saksa julgeolekupolitsei koostöö 1933-1944 / Oula Silvennoinen; translated by Elle-Mall Anupõld. – Tallinn: Olion, 2009.

Finland’s Holocaust: Silences of History / edited by Simo Muir and Hana Worthen. – Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. – Includes Oula Silvennoinen's article "Beyond 'Those Eight': Deportation of Jews from Finland 1941-1942".
]]></p>
        </bibliography>
        <processinfo encodinganalog="3.7.3">
          <p>
            <date><![CDATA[2014-03]]></date>
          </p>
        </processinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <corpname source="ehri_cb" authfilenumber="001391">Einsatzkommando Finnland</corpname>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="subseries">
        <did>
          <unitid>EK-Valpo I, amp XV</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Ulkomaalaiset Suomessa </unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">8 boxes</physdesc>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="fin" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Finnish</language>
            <language langcode="swe" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Swedish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <processinfo encodinganalog="3.7.1">
          <p><![CDATA[The description was made by Filip Sikorski.]]></p>
        </processinfo>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Group XV includes the Finnish State Police’s records concerning foreigners in Finland in 1920s-1940s. The records include e.g. reports, lists of foreigners, or newspaper clippings. Much of the material concerns Jewish refugees in Finland in 1930s-1940s (especially subgroups A, A2, A2a, B). The newspaper clippings include antisemitic articles from Finnish daily press.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <arrangement encodinganalog="3.3.4">
          <p><![CDATA[Group XV is divided into the following subgroups. A: Foreigners in Finland excluding the Russian emigrants; A1: Citizens of Soviet Russia; A2: Jews in Finland; A2a: Jews elsewhere (the Jewish question); A3: Germans in Finland; A3a: German associations in Finland; A4: Turkish associations in Finland; A6: Englishmen in Finland; B: Refugees in Finland, general; B1: Refugees from Karelia; B1a Karelian Uprising; B2: Inkeri refugees; B3: Kronstadt refugees in Finland; C: Deportation proposals; C1: Deportations.]]></p>
        </arrangement>
        <bibliography encodinganalog="3.5.4">
          <p><![CDATA[Pakolaiset Suomessa Hitlerin valtakaudella [Refugees in Finland during Hitler’s reign] / Taimi Torvinen. – Helsinki: Otava, 1984.]]></p>
        </bibliography>
        <altformavail encodinganalog="3.5.2">
          <p><![CDATA[USHMM RG-29.003M (partially)]]></p>
        </altformavail>
        <processinfo encodinganalog="3.7.3">
          <p>
            <date><![CDATA[2014-03]]></date>
          </p>
        </processinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="304">Refugees</subject>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="series">
        <did>
          <unitid>EK-Valpo I, hmp</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Henkilömapit</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">8278 files</physdesc>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="fin" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Finnish</language>
            <language langcode="swe" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Swedish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <processinfo encodinganalog="3.7.1">
          <p><![CDATA[The description was made by Filip Sikorski. Data concerning the administrative history is taken from the "Arkistojen portti" [The Gates of the Archives] webpage. http://wiki.narc.fi/portti/index.php/Valtiollinen_poliisi#Henkil.C3.B6mapisto.
List of the deported Jews is based on Elina Sana's book *Kuoleman laiva s/s Hohenhörn* and Oula Silvennoinen's article "Beyond 'Those Eight': Deportation of Jews from Finland 1941-1942".]]></p>
        </processinfo>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[The collection includes files of the Jews deported from Finland to Germany 1941–1942 as a result of the Finnish State Police action (8 folders). The collection includes also personal files of Arno Anthoni who was the chief of the Finnish State Police in 1941–1944 (3 folders).]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <bibliography encodinganalog="3.5.4">
          <p><![CDATA[Kuoleman laiva s/s Hohenhörn: Juutalaispakolaisten kohtalo Suomessa [Death ship SS Hohenhörn: The fate of the Jewish refugees in Finland] / Elina Sana (Suominen). – Helsinki: WSOY, 2004.

Finland’s Holocaust: Silences of History / edited by Simo Muir and Hana Worthen. – Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. – Includes Oula Silvennoinen's article "Beyond 'Those Eight': Deportation of Jews from Finland 1941-1942".
]]></p>
        </bibliography>
        <altformavail encodinganalog="3.5.2">
          <p><![CDATA[USHMM RG-29.003M (partially)]]></p>
        </altformavail>
        <bioghist encodinganalog="3.2.2">
          <p><![CDATA[The Finnish State Police’s personal files include data on the persons who were considered politically, or in other way important. The records include mainly letters, newspaper clippings and notices. Almost 7000 persons had their personal files. A person had usually either a folder or a simple card, but not both. As the material increased, a card was changed into a folder.]]></p>
        </bioghist>
        <accessrestrict encodinganalog="3.4.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Access to the files is free but they are available only in the intranet of the National Archives of Finland.]]></p>
        </accessrestrict>
        <otherfindaid encodinganalog="3.4.5">
          <p><![CDATA[Alphabetical list of the personal files is available at the reference desk in the main building of the National Archives of Finland. Most of the files are digitalized. The files can be read in the intranet of the National Archives (only within the premises of NAF): http://digi.narc.fi/digi/?lang=en_US. Click “search,” then “tree view”, “valtiollinen poliisi,” “ Valtiollisen poliisin I arkisto,” ”henkilömapit,” and then ”kaikki” in order to see all the files.

Files of the deported Jews can be found in the following folders. A:11605 Kollmann (Kollman), Georg; A:11606 Korn, Hans Robert Martin; A:11607 Huppert, Heinrich; 11293 Jaderny, Vilem (Kernig, Wilhelm); 11319 Szybilski (Szübilski), Hans Edvard; 11370 Busch, Georg (Georges); 11405 Arnhold (Arnholds), Nikolai Viktorinpoika; 11413 Kopelovsky (Kopelowsky), Elias.

The chief of the State Police, Arno Anthoni’s files are have the following numbers: A:4374a, A:4374b, A:4374c.

]]></p>
        </otherfindaid>
        <custodhist encodinganalog="3.2.3">
          <p><![CDATA[In 2009-2010 most of the files were digitalized are are now available in the intranet of the National Archives of Finland.]]></p>
        </custodhist>
        <processinfo encodinganalog="3.7.3">
          <p>
            <date><![CDATA[2014-03]]></date>
          </p>
        </processinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="518">Deportations</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="523">Deportation ships</subject>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
    </dsc>
    <controlaccess>
      <persname source="ehri_pers" authfilenumber="000441">Anthoni, Arno</persname>
    </controlaccess>
    <controlaccess>
      <geogname>Finland</geogname>
    </controlaccess>
  </archdesc>
</ead>