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  1. Kaunas Ninth Fort

    • Kauno IX fortas

    Mass killing site in Kaunas. The first shootings at the Ninth Fort took place on September 26, 1941. Until the end of June 1944 around 30 000 Jews were killed there.

  2. Kauno sunkiųjų darbų kalėjimas

    • Zentralgefängnis in Kauen
    • Kaunas Hard-Labour Prison

    The Kaunas Prison was completed in 1864. At the time it was a modern prison in the whole region. It had 300 places for prisoners, a chapel, administrative-household premises, and apartments for employees were planned. Later there the number of places for prisoners grew up to 550. Kaunas Prison was seen far in environs of Kaunas center and aroused terror in everybody. During the period of 1905 Revolution, the prison was overcrowded with political prisoners. The branch of Kaunas Prison was established in the Ninth Fort of Kaunas Fortress in 1924. During World War II, the majority of the convi...

  3. Državni arhiv u Splitu

    • Split State Archive

  4. Kauno karo komendantūra

    • Litauische Kommandantur in Kaunas
    • Military Commandant in Kaunas

    Military Commandant in Kaunas was appointed in June 1941. When German Army entered Kaunas on 25 June 1941 Kaunas Military Commandant started to follow and implement the instructions issued by German 821th Military Field Commandant's instructions. Since 30 July 1941 Military Commandant in Kaunas was under the authority of German 11th Reserve Police Battalion. In the first days of the war Military Commandant in Kaunas was involved into arresting of the Red Army soldiers and communists.

  5. Kauno apskrities viršininkas

    • Der Kreischef in Kauen
    • Head of the District of the City of Kaunas

    Head of the District of the City of Kaunas was appointed on 24 June 1941 and countinued to work until July 1944. It was lower Lithuanian institution under the authority of the County Commissar of Kaunas City and Chief Gebiestcommissar in Kaunas.

  6. Kauno miesto apygardos komisaras

    • Kaunas-Stadt Gebietskomissar
    • County Commissar of Kaunas City

    County Commissar of Kaunas City was appointed on 26 July 1941 and countinued to work until July 1944. It was the lowest German civil authority. The name of County Commissar of Kaunas City in the official documentation varies from County Commissar of Kaunas City to City Commissioner Kaunas (Der Stadtkommissar in Kauen).

  7. Kauno 13-oji didžioji kariuomenės statybos įstaiga

    • Grosse Heeresbaudienststelle 13 Kauen
    • Kaunas Major Military Construction Office Number 13

    Kaunas Major Military Construction Office Number 13 supervised construction of military objects.

  8. Ilja Rud-Gercovskis

    He was born on 13 September 1929 in Kaunas, died on 14 June 1968 in Vilnius. In the first day of the war he able to escape to the East of the Soviet Union and survived the Holocaust. Returned to Vilnius after the war and since 1949 he was the literary staff of the newspaper "Youth of Lithuania". He graduated from the Law Faculty of Vilnius University in 1952 and the Higher Courses of Scriptwriters and directors in 1967. In 1955-1958 he worked as the correspondent of the newspaper "Komsomolskaya Pravda" in the Lithuanian SSR. Since 1958, he worked in various editions and magazines. Since 196...

  9. Icchokas Meras

    He was born on October 8, 1934 in Kelmė. His family perished in 1941 when the Nazis undertook the liquidation of Lithuania's Jews, but hidden and adopted by a Lithuanian peasant family, Meras survived the war. In 1958 he graduated from the Kaunas Polytechnic Institute with a degree in radio electronics, but began devoting most of his spare time to literature. In 1960 Meras published his first collection of stories entitled Geltonas lopas (The Yellow Patch). He based his sketches on his own childhood experiences of Holocaust terror. He has written books and was author of three screen scripts...

  10. Der Generalkommissar in Kauen

    • General Commissar in Kaunas
    • Generalinis komisaras Kaune

    The war between the USSR and Germany started on June 22, 1941. Germany established the Reichskommissariat Ostland (RKO) as the civilian occupation regime in the Baltic states (Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania), the northeastern part of Poland and the western part of the Belarussian SSR during World War II. The region was divided into 6 districts headed by General Commissars.

  11. Geležinkelių policijos viršininkas

    • Geležinkelių policijos vadas
    • Chief of Railway Police

    The Chief of Railway Police office was established on 16 July 1941 and was under the authority of Police Department of the Ministry of Interior. There no clear information when office exactly was close in 1944.

  12. ELTA Elektronine Lietuvos telegrafo agentura

    • ELTA Electronic Lithuanian telegraph agency

    Created in 1920 and exited untill 1940. Have a cooperation with REUTERS, DNB, HAVAS, STEFANI, TASS. Since 1940 was a branch of TASS untill 1989. Since 1990 is an independent Lithuanian news agency.

  13. Valstybinis durpių pramonės trestas

    • Torf-Industrie-Zentrale
    • State Peat Industry Center

    State Peat Industry Center was established in June 1941 and operated until 1 March 1943. Since 2 March 1943 was called Torf-Industrie-Zentrale. The Centre was under the Nazi administration authority.

  14. Darbo birža Kaune

    • Arbeitsamt Kauen
    • Labour Office in Kaunas

    Labour Office in Kaunas was established under the supervision of Nazi authorities in September 1941 and was resposible for all activities concerning with labour.

  15. Jakovas Bunka

    • Yakov Bunka

    Bunka was the only Jewish folk artist in Lithuania. Now he is also the last Jew in Plungė, a town which once was known for its numerous Jewish community.

  16. Ašmenos kalėjimas

    • Ašmena Prison

    Ašmenos prison was established on 1 April 1942. The prison was under the authority of the Prison Management Department. Ašmenos prison was for political and criminal prisoners but there were imprisoned Jews also.

  17. Alytaus apskrities viršininkas

    • The Chief of Alytus District
    • Der Kreischef Kreis Alytus

    The chief of Alytus district was responsible for the internal security of the county, took care of the education, health, care, catering, and the establishment of associations and activities.

  18. István Bethlen

    Hungarian conservative politician. He was the prime minister of Hungary from 1921 to 1931. He represented a moderate right-wing, anti-Nazi, pro-English stance and he rejected the Hungarian anti-Jewish laws. After the German occupation he was forced to go into hiding. In the summer of 1944 he wrote a secret memorandum to Miklós Horthy, calling on him to stop the deportations of Jews. He was arrested by Soviets in 1945 and he died in Moscow in 1946.

  19. 814-oji karo lauko komendantūra

    • Feldkommandantur 814
    • Military Field Commander Number 814 in Vilnius

    Military Field Commander Number 814 in Vilnius was established in July 1941 and existed untill July 1944. The institution was under the authority of Der Kommandant in Litauen des Wehrmachtsbefehlshabers Ostland. The Commandant handled almost all military and civilian affairs, except for the political. Also supervised activities of the committee of the citizens' of the Vilnius city and the area and activities of the Lithuanian auxiliary police.

  20. 1-asis lietuvių policijos batalionas

    • Das litauische Schutzmannschafts- W-Bataillon Nr. 1
    • Lithuanian 1st Police Battalion

    The 1st Battalion which was located in Kaunas and was active in the mass murdering process of Jews in Kaunas and the periphery in summer and autumn 1941. The 1st Battalion's soldiers killed tens thousands of Lithuanian and foreign countries (Germany, Austria, Czech Republic) Jews. Since 20 December 1941 the Battalion was renamed to 13th Battalion and was active in Byelorussia.