Overview
- Description
- 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.
- Date
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inclusive:
1939-1944
- Collection Creator
- Staffan Thorsell
- Biography
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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)
Physical Details
- Language
- Swedish
- Extent
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60 pages.
- 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.
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- This material can only be accessed in a Museum reading room or other on-campus viewing stations. No other access restrictions apply to this material.
- Conditions on Use
- Fair use only.
- Copyright Holder
- ABB Asea Brown Boveri Ltd
Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- World War 1939-1945--Atrocities--Poland--Warsaw. Ghetto--Poland--Warsaw--History--20th century. Holocaust Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Warsaw.
- Geographic Name
- Warsaw (Poland)--History--20th century. Poland--History--Occupation, 1939-1945 . Włocławek (Poland)
- Personal Name
- Norrman, Sven. Thorsell, Staffan.
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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ABB Asea Brown Boveri Ltd
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- 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.
- Record last modified:
- 2024-05-06 15:06:25
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn622331
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