Records of the Ministry of Jewish Affairs of the Republic of Lithuania (Fond 1129)

Identifier
irn516415
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2004.689
  • RG-26.005M
Dates
1 Jan 1919 - 31 Dec 1928
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Lithuanian
  • Yiddish
  • Hebrew
  • Russian
  • German
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn516415

Extent and Medium

57 microfilm reels, 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), Fond 1129, Opis 1. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the filmed collection via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum International Archives Project in November 2004.

Scope and Content

The collection includes files of the Ministry of Jewish Affairs regarding the development and activities of Jewish communities in Lithuania during the inter-war period. The collection includes mainly correspondence with local and government authorities, local Jewish communities across Lithuania regarding budget, tax collection, salaries of Jewish community officials and their election, Jewish schools, minutes of the meetings of the Jewish councils, annual reports, and budget proposals, documents related to the Jewish emigration from Lithuania to America and the Jewish Folk bank, and newspaper clippings. Also contains many list names including a list of rabbis and a list of Jewish schoolchildren.

System of Arrangement

Arrangment is thematic

Conditions Governing Reproduction

Copyright Holder: Lietuvos centrinis valstybės archyvas

Subjects

  • Jewish councils--Lithuania--Registers.
  • Lithuania--Emigration and immigration--History--20th century.

Genre

  • Document
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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