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  1. Εβραϊκό Μουσείο Θεσσαλονίκης

    • Jewish Museum of Thessaloniki
    • Evraiko Mouseio Thessalonikis

  2. Vilniaus universitetas

    • Vilnius University

    From 1579 until now.

    Following Soviet invasion of Poland in September 1939, the university was briefly administered by the Lithuanian authorities (from October 1939), and then after Soviet annexation of Lithuania (June 1940), punctuated by a period of German occupation after German invasion of the Soviet Union (1941–1944), administrated as Vilnius State University by the Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic. In 1945 the Polish community of students and scholars of Stafan Batory University was transferred to Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń. After Lithuania regained its independence in 1990, following the...

  3. Πρωτοδικείο Θεσσαλονίκης

    • Court of First Instance in Thessaloniki
    • Protodikeio Thessalonikis

  4. Υπουργείο Οικονομικών

    • Ministry of Finance
    • Tpourgeio Oikonomikon

  5. Ειδικό Δικαστήριο Δωσιλόγων Θεσσαλονίκης

    • Special Court for Collaborators in Thessaloniki
    • Eidiko Dikastirio Dosilogon Thessalonikis

  6. Seinų apskrities viršininkas

    • Chief of Seinai County

  7. Υπουργείο Εξωτερικών

    • Ministry of Foreign Affairs
    • Ypourgeio Exoterikon

  8. Lietuvių saugumo policijos Vilniaus apygarda

    • Litauische Sicherheitspolizei Bezirk Wilna
    • Lithuanian Security police of Vilnius district

    Chief of Lithuanian Security police of Vilnius district was Aleksandras Lileikis.

  9. Ιερά Σύνοδος της Εκκλησίας της Ελλάδος

    • Holy Synod of the Church of Greece

  10. Vilniaus sunkiųjų darbų kalėjimas (Vilniaus Lukiškių kalėjimas)

    • Das Lukischki-Gefängnis in Wilna
    • The hard-labour prison in Vilnius (Lukiškės Prison) of the Lithuanian Ministry of Justice

    The prison became more notorious during the Nazi occupation of Lithuania, when it was used by the Gestapo and Lithuanian Security Police as a holding cell for thousands of Jews from the Vilna Ghetto. The majority were taken to the outskirts of Vilnius and executed at Ponary (Paneriai). When Soviets reoccupied the territory in 1944, the prison was returned to the NKVD.

  11. Vilniaus apygardos teismo prokuroras

    • Staatsanwalt beim Bezirksgericht Wilna
    • Prosecutor of Vilnius district court

  12. Saugumo policijos ir SD vado Lietuvai Lietuviškasis Panevėžio skyrius

    • Litauische Abteilung-Ponewesch des Kommandeurs der Sicherheitspolizei und des SD in Litauen
    • Panevėžys Department of the Security Police and SD in Lithuania

    The main goal of Panevėžys Department of the Security Police and SD in Lithuania was to persecute communists or communists-related, Jews, people who were not loyal to Nazi policy, to fight agains partisans and underground organizations.

  13. Vilniaus apskrities policijos Naujosios Vilnios nuovada

    • Police Station in Naujoji Vilnia of the Vilnius County

    Police Station in Naujoji Vilnia of the Vilnius County was the lowest branch of Lithuanian Public Police.

  14. Vilniaus miesto vykdomojo komiteto Sveikatos apsaugos skyrius

    • Health Executive Committee of Vilnius city

    Health Executive Committee of Vilnius city maintained all health care institutions in the country.

  15. Lietuvių savisaugos dalių štabai

    • Kommandod der Litauischen Selbstschutzeinheiten
    • Lithunianian Self-defence battalions

  16. Reichsleiterio Rosenbergo operatyvinio štabo okupuotoms sritims Darbo grupė Lietuvoje

    • Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg für die besetzten Gebiete Arbeitsgruppe Litauen
    • Vilnius Branch of the Rosenberg Operative Command of the Lithuanian General Region

    In September 1941, the Nazis established the Vilnius and Kaunas divisions of the Alfred Rosenberg Headquarters. The goal of these units was to collect Lithuania’s Jewish artistic and cultural valuables, which amounted to the plundering and destruction of a large portion of Lithuanian Jewry’s cultural heritage. The Strashun, Balosher, and YIVO libraries, the Sh. An-sky Museum and the Kaunas Society of History and Ethnography were ransacked. A group of approximately twenty inmates from the Vilnius ghetto were forced to assist the Rosenberg Headquarters in this infamous work. Those Jewish inte...

  17. Lietuvos laisvės kovotojų sąjunga

    • LLKS
    • Fighters for Lithuanian Freedom Union

    Unerground group which operated the Soviet (1940-1941) and the Nazis (1941-1944) occupied Lithuania. The goal of the underground group was fighting for Lithuanian independence. The members of the organization were active in publishing newspapers. Also created divisions in each county town. The organization was divided into four districts (Vilnius, Kaunas, Šiauliai, Panevėžys). Had about three thousand members in 1943. In the statute of the group is written that "The aim is to restore independent Lithuania and to unite all Lithuanians for joint work in honor of Lithuania and well-being".

  18. Ελληνική Ραδιοφωνία Τηλεόραση

    • Greek State TV-Radio

  19. Lietuvos ir Baltarusijos TSR darbo liaudies komisariatas

    • Labour People Commissariat in Lithuania and Byelorussia Soviet Socialist Republics
    • Совет народных коммиссаров
    • Soviet narodnykh kommissarov

    The Council of People's Commissars (Russian: Совет народных коммиссаров or Совнарком, translit. Soviet narodnykh kommissarov or Sovnarkom, also as generic SNK) was a government institution formed shortly after the October Revolution in 1917. Created in the Russian Republic the council laid foundations in restructuring the country to form the Soviet Union. It evolved to become the highest government authority of executive power under the Soviet system in states which came under the control of Bolsheviks.

  20. Žydų kultūros ir švietimo draugijos „Tarbut“ Lenkijoje Vilniaus skyrius

    • Żydowskie Stowarzyszenie Kulturalno-Oświatowe „Tarbut“ w Polsce, Oddział w Wilnie
    • Jewish Cultural and Educational Association "Tarbut" in Poland, the Vilnius Section

    The organization established and maintained schools for teacher and nursers, also teachers' seminaries, a gymnasium and lyceum, primary schools, kindergartens and shelters, organized Hebrew language courses, summer camps for children, established reading rooms, clubs, organized congresses, lectures, exhibitions, excursions, meetings, published textbooks in Hebrew language.