Selected records from the Central State Archives of Lithuania (Fond R-973/1-3 and Fond R-1390)

Identifier
irn501955
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1998.A.0073
  • RG-26.014M
Dates
1 Jan 1941 - 31 Dec 1948
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Lithuanian
  • Yiddish
  • German
  • Polish
  • Russian
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn501955

Extent and Medium

55,995 digital images, JPEG

65 microfilm reels (digitized), 35 mm

Archival History

Lietuvos centrinis valstybės archyvas

Acquisition

Forms part of the Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. This archive consists of documentation whose reproduction and/or acquisition was made possible with funding from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.

Source of acquisition is the Lietuvos centrinis valstybės archyvas (Lithuanian Central State Archives), Fonds R-973/1-3 Vilnius Jewish Ghetto Police, and Fond R-1390, Documents of the Vilnius State Museum. After the war, these records were housed in the Vilnius Jewish Museum, then transferred to the Lithuanian Central State Archives. The Museum Archives received the microfilms via the International Archival Programs Division in May, 1998.

Scope and Content

Contains selected records of Fond R-973 (Jewish ghetto police in Kaunas, reels 1–51), including police daily reports, statistics, correspondence, investigations and the ghetto court cases relating to events in Kaunas ghetto, including activities of armed Lithuanian “partisans." Includes registration books of investigation cases, listing and personal files of ghetto police, various police officer lists, lists of deportees, hospital records, the Kaunas ghetto-plan with marked houses, and Josef Schlesinger drawings. Contains also selected records collected by the Vilnius Jewish Museum, Fond R-1390 (reels 52-65), with various documents of Lithuanian ghettos, concentration camps in Europe, Russian and Polish publications, diaries, songs, poems and photographs relating to WWII.

System of Arrangement

Arranged in two series: 1. Fond R-973, Jewish ghetto police in Kaunas(Kovno)-Vilijampole, 1941-1944; 2. Fond R-1390, Vilnius Jewish Museum records, 1941-1948

Conditions Governing Reproduction

Copyright Holder: Lietuvos centrinis valstybės archyvas

Subjects

  • Police--Lithuania--Kaunas--Registers.
  • Lithuania--History--1918-1945.
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Lithuania.
  • Jewish ghettos--Lithuania--Kaunas.
  • Concentration camps--Lithuania.
  • Concentration camps--Germany.
  • Concentration camps--Poland.

Genre

This description is derived directly from structured data provided to EHRI by a partner institution. This collection holding institution considers this description as an accurate reflection of the archival holdings to which it refers at the moment of data transfer.

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