Žydų istorijos dokumentai

  • Jewish history documents
Identifier
Švėkšnos muziejaus kolekcijos/Collections of the Švėkšna Museum
Language of Description
English
Dates
1 Jan 1900 - 1 Jan 1944
Level of Description
Collection
Languages
  • German
  • Lithuanian
  • Russian
Scripts
  • Cyrillic
  • Cyrillic (Old Church Slavonic variant)
  • Latin
Source
EHRI

Extent and Medium

The holdings are classified as primary (GEK) and academic support collections (PG).

Primary collection consists of:

Photography (ŠVF) - XIX - XX c. (contains Jewish documents)

Writings (ŠVR) - XVI - XX c. (contains Jewish documents)

Etnography (ŠVE) - XIX - XX c. (contains Jewish documents)

Archeology (ŠVA)

Numismatics (ŠVNu)

Historical Exhibits (ŠVIE)

Scope and Content

There are 40-50 items (documents, personal artifacts and photos) related to the Jewish history and the Holocaust in the collection of the museum.

Existence and Location of Copies

  • 10 copies of the photos from the USHMM archives and 2 copies of the photos from the Yad Vashem archives.

Archivist Note

Entry written by Neringa on 19 January 2017 based on the information provided by museum's historian Monika Žąsytienė.

Rules and Conventions

EHRI Guidelines for Description v.1.0