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  1. Kazys Škirpa

    Kazys Škirpa was born February 18, 1895, in the village of Namajūnai (Saločiai district); he died in Washington, D.C., on August 18, 1979. He was Lithuanian diplomat and politician; he was one of the first volunteers in the Lithuanian Army volunteer, and was later a colonel in the Lithuanian Army. In 1940 he established a Front of Lithuanian Activists, which organized the June Uprising (June 23-26, 1941) in Lithuania and sought, with the help of the Nazis, to re-establish Lithuanian independence. The members of this Uprising participated in pogroms throughout Lithuania.

  2. Estnische Selbstschutz

    • Estonian Home Guard
    • Eesti Omakaitse

    1941-1944

    In August 1941, the commander of the German occupying army unit Nord, Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb, decided to better secure the rear and so gathered the troops composed of the Forest Brothers who had participated in the Summer War. The new organisation was called the Estonian Home Guard and was subordinate to local civilian authorities (Estonian Self-administration). Territorially, the Home Guard was divided into 13 county units. Their leaders took orders from local police prefects. The Home Guard was a voluntary organisation; the minimum age for schoolchildren was 17 years of age, and for othe...

  3. Karl Linnas

    1919-1987

    Karl Linnas was, between 1941 and 1943, the commandant of a concentration camp at Tartu during the German occupation of Estonia. After Soviet forces pushed the Germans out of Estonia, Linnas fought with the German army. After the war he stayed in Displaced Persons camps in Germany until emigrating to the USA in 1951. During the show trial in Soviet Estonia in 1962 he was sentenced to capital punishment. In 1979 U.S. immigration officials charged him with making false statements to gain entry to the United States. In 1981 the Federal District Court in Westbury, New York, stripped then-62-yea...

  4. Baltische Öl Gesellschaft mit beschänkter Haftung

    • Baltic Oil Limited Liability Company
    • Baltische Öl GmbH

    1941-1944

    German Kontinentale Öl was a holding company which held exclusive rights for both trading oil products and acquiring oil assets in Germany and German-occupied territories. The company operated through its numerous subsidiaries. In July 1941, the subsidiary Baltische Öl GmbH was founded for shale oil extraction in Estonia, and all of the existing oil shale industry in Estonia was merged into it. During the years 1941-1943 most of the workers in the company’s mines and factories were Soviet prisoners of war. The Vaivara concentration camp network (which included numerous subcamps) was establi...

  5. Schutzpolizei

    • Protective police
    • Schupo

    City or municipal police.

  6. Виконавчий комітет Полтавської обласної ради народних депутатів

    • Executive committee of Poltava regional Council of Peoples Delegates
    • Vykonavchyi komitet Poltavskoi oblasnoi rady narodnykh deputativ
    • Управління Народного комісаріату внутрішніх справ УРСР по Полтавській області
    • Управління Міністерства внутрішніх справ УРСР по Полтавській області
    • Виконавчий комітет Полтавської обласної ради депутатів трудящих
    • ...

  7. Вовчанська сільська управа, с. Вовча Кобеляцького р-ну Полтавської обл.

    • Vovcha village board, Vovcha village, Kobeliaky district, Poltava region
    • Vovchanska silska uprava, s. Vovcha Kobeliatskogo raionu Poltavskoi oblasti

  8. Державний архів Полтавської області

    • State Archive of Poltava Oblast
    • Derzhavnyi arkhiv Poltavs'koi oblasti

  9. Ministerstvo spravedlnosti, Praha

    • Ministry of Justice, Prague

    The Ministry of Justice was established in 1918 after the constitution of the first Czechoslovak republic. Its scope of authority was to control to organise and to administer all matters of public courts and prosecutor offices, prison services, pedagogical institutions for the young or matters of Czechoslovak layers and notaries and other formal orders, regulations and laws.

  10. Joniškio miesto savivaldybė

    • The Municipality of the City of Joniškis

  11. Державний архів Черкаської області

    • State archives of Cherkasy region

  12. Grigorijus Kanovičius

    • Grigory Yaakov Kanovich

    One of the most prominent modern Jewish writers. He was born in a Jewish family in Jonava town on June 18, 1929. Together with his parents he fled war-stricken Lithuania and spent years in exile in Kazakhstan and the Ural Mountains. In 1945 the family returned to Vilnius. Here, in 1953, he graduated from Vilnius State University with a degree in Slavic studies. In 1948 he published his first book of poetry. The first autobiographical novella to be published in the Soviet Union in post-war years was “I am Looking at the Stars” by Grigory Kanovich (1959). The novella received positive reviews...

  13. Josifas Šapiro

    • Josif Shapiro
    • Yosif Shapiro

    The collector and ex libris aficionado was born in 1921 in Kaunas. He was an engineer and worked for many years at Lithuanian graphic reporduction and printing enterprises. Although Shapiro was not a professional artist, he created about 175 ex libris bookplates dedicated to friends and family and regularly participated at many ex libris congresses and conferences. Shapiro was best known as a collector of diverse things. He has been written about in the press in Lithuania, USA, Russia and Finland. He exhibited his eclectic collections in cities across Lithuania, Russia and other countries. ...

  14. Borisas Gurinovičius

    • Borisas Pavlovičius Gurinovičius

    Borisas Gurinovičius was born on 24 February 1907 in Kashinas town (Kalininas region, Russia). Since 1922 the family settled in Vilnius. In Vilnius Gurinovičius finished secondary school and started studies at the Steponas Batoras University in Vilnius. In 1936 he graduated from the university and work as a specialist of agriculture. Was able to survive the Holocaust in the East of Soviet Union. After the Second World war returned to Vilnius. Beside his primary work he was know as a collector. His the most famous collections are: "Kosmosas/Space", "Pasaulio sostinės/World Capitals", "Vilnia...

  15. Ordnungspolizei

    • Order Police
    • Orpo

    Founded in 1936

    The Ordnungspolizei were reserve police battalions under the control of Police General Kurt Daluege. The Ordnungspolizei, a terroristic and murderous group, were used to secure and hold down occupied areas in the East, particularly Poland and Russia. They guarded ghettos and controlled the Schutzpolizei. They engaged in horrendous atrocities. Recent data has revealed that these genocidal activities of ordinary men, not front-line caliber soldiers, preceded even the Einsatzgruppen.

  16. Коропська районна поліція, с. Короп Коропського району Чернігівської області

    • Korop district police, Korop village of Korop district of Chernihiv oblast
    • Koropska raionna politsiia, s. Korop Koropskoho raionu Chernihivskai oblasti

  17. Aronas Soloveičikas

    Aronas Soloveičikas was born in 1901 in Vilnius. In 1914-1915 studied at art in I. G. Rybakovas' class in Vilnius art school. In 1919-1921 served as a soldier of the Red Army. In 1928 graduated from the Moscow State Art-Technic Institute. Survived the Holocaust. Was known because of his iliustrations of the books. Became a professor in Odesa Institute of Arts. His art pieces are in Tretjakov State Gallery. Died in 1963 in Vilnius.

  18. Oberfeldkommandantur 396

    • Headquarters of Higher Field Command Number 396

  19. Handels- und Gewerbeamt der Stadt Riga

    • The Riga City Board of Trade and Industry

  20. Stadtkommandantur Wolmar

    • Valmiera City Commandant's Office