Research files of a Swedish author Staffan Thorsell relating to Nazi war crimes in Poland

Identifier
irn622331
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2019.226.1
  • RG-66.008
Dates
1 Jan 1939 - 31 Dec 1944
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Swedish
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn622331

Extent and Medium

60 pages,

Creator(s)

  • Staffan Thorsell

Biographical History

Staffan Thorsell is a Swedish author and journalist. He’s the former editor in chief of Swedish the newspaper Expressen, and the author of Sverige i Vita huset (2004), Mein lieber Reichskanzler (2006) and I Hans Majestäts Tjänst (2009)

Archival History

ABB Asea Brown Boveri Ltd

Acquisition

Source of acquisition is the ASEA/ABB Archives in Sweden (Allmänna Svenska Elektriska Aktiebolaget, it merged with the Swiss company Brown, Boveri & Cie (BBC) to form ABB Asea Brown Boveri Ltd. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received photocopies via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum International Archival Programs Division in March 2018.

Scope and Content

Research files of a Swedish author, Staffan Thorsell, who wrote the book "the Warsaw Swedes." The records relate to the work of Swedish businessmen based in Warsaw, including: Sven Norrman, who was head of the Swedish engineering company ASEA in Warsaw. Norman and a group of Swedes worked for corporations that would later become Swedish Match and Ericsson. Norman took thousands of the photos in the Warsaw Ghetto and smuggled out documents detailing the murder of 700,000 Jews by Germans, inlcuding 2,000 photo negatives of German war crimes in Poland, including photographs he took himself in the Warsaw Ghetto. Norman working under the alias "Hjalmar" would become the most important connection between the Polish government in exile and the resistance in Warsaw.

System of Arrangement

Arranged in one series: 1. Research materials relating to German crimes during WWII in Poland: Reports, letters, notes of Sven Norrman; and permission from German Commander for Sven Norrman to visit a powerplant in Włocławek, Poland.

Conditions Governing Reproduction

Copyright Holder: ABB Asea Brown Boveri Ltd

People

  • Norrman, Sven.
  • Thorsell, Staffan.

Subjects

  • Ghetto--Poland--Warsaw--History--20th century.
  • Włocławek (Poland)
  • World War 1939-1945--Atrocities--Poland--Warsaw.
  • Poland--History--Occupation, 1939-1945 .
  • Warsaw (Poland)--History--20th century.
  • Holocaust Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Warsaw.

Genre

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