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Country: Lithuania

  1. Palestinos žydų fondams - Pamatinio Palestinos fondo (Karen Hajesod) ir Žydų tautinio fondo (Karen Kajemet Lejisroel) - remti draugija

    • Associciation for Support of Jewish Palestine (Karen Hayesod), Lithuanian Branch, 1920‒1940

    "This collection consists of records and correspondence files with local branches of the Karen Hayesod across Lithuania from 1920 to 1940, concerning the registration of local organizations and fundraising activities for the Jewish settlements in Palestine before World War II. The collection also includes minute meetings; correspondence with Zionist organizations worldwide, local banks, and Lithuanian government authorities; bylaws; donor lists; cashier books; and financial reports" (From: USHMM finding aid).

  2. Lietuvos pasiuntinybė Londone

    • Lithuanian Embassy in London

    There is correspondence with Polish Jews Federation about mass killings of Jews in Lithuania (1942-1943), short biography of Ona Šimaitė who rescued Jews in the years of the war; documents concerning antisemitic attitude of locals towards Jewish intelligentsia and cultural institutions.

  3. Lietuvos pasiuntinybė Vašingtone

    • Lithuanian Embassy in Washington, DC

    Documents of the Federation of Jews in the United States; Lithuanian Embassy in Washington correcpondence with Lithuanian diplomats about the situation of Jews in the USSR and in the years of Nazi occupation; documents concerning relations between Jews and Lithuanians, mass killings of Jews, people accused in participation in mass killings; publications of Jewish organizations.

  4. Jokūbas Josadė

    The personal fonds of a famous Jewish writer who was able to escape in the first days of the Second World War to the East of the Soviet Union. There he joined to the Lithuanian 16th division of the Red Army and survived the Holocaust. The files of the fonds consist of drafts, notes, novels with corrections, articles, translations, diaries; personal documents, photos, correspondence; video documents; documents collected by J. Josadė; documents of family members about J. Josadė).

  5. Utenos žydų privatinė progimnazija

    • Private Jewish School of Utena

    Registers of the activities of the school, lists of pupils, correspondence with the Ministry of Education regarding education process, exams, educational programmes, and various questions; applications from parents to accept their children to the school, to receive benefits, etc.; copies of graduation certificates, lists of the teachers, etc.

  6. Ukmergė apskrities policijos Širvintų nuovada

    • Širvintos Precinct in Ukmergė District

    The fonds consists of the files with orders, circulars, instructions from the chief of the Ukmergė district, from the chief of the police, etc. There are also statistics about the activities of the local communists, reports on moods of residents, reports regarding all existing organizations in the police precinct, documents on taxes collection, etc. Lists of arrested Soviet prisoners of war, Jews, Poles, Russians, communists, foreigners, and wanted people. Register books and other documents.

  7. LSSR-MGB-KGB centro skyriai (pabiros)

    • Lithuanian SSR-MGB-KGB Central Departments (Loose Files)

    Some files of the subfond are related to the Holocaust (surveillance/criminal proceeding files (interrogation and confrontation protocols, testimonies of witnesses and ect.) for people who colaborated with the Nazi and were involved into annihilation process of local Jews). - files No. 1234, 1251, 1290, 4907-4909, 4911, 4912, 4913 (11 volumes), 4914-4916: related to activities of the Special Squad (Sonderkommando Vilinius SD) which operated in the Paneriai (Ponary) mass killing site.

  8. Lietuvos SSR valstybės saugumo komitetas (KGB)

    • Security Committee (KGB) of Lithuania SSR

    Criminal proceedings (protocols of interrogations, information which deals with personal data of the arrested persons, photos, sometimes-small personal belongings (certificates, books, checks, drawings, photos of the members of the family and ect.), protocols of the questioning to witnesses, various decrees and reports (part of them with the sign: Secret). The subfonds includes approx. 1034 criminal files for people who have been suspected or accused of colaboration, for people who partipicated in mass killings of Jews ect.). - Criminal files No. 8890/3, 36137/3, 739/3, 45275/3, 36138/3, 20...

  9. Lietuvos TSR valstybės saugumo komiteto (KGB) operatyvinės įskaitos bylos

    • Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic Security Committee (KGB) Operative Follow-Up Files

    "SSRS OGPU-GUGB-NKVD-MGB-KGB and Lithuanian SSR NKVD-KGB operative files compiled by reconnaissance department (for the poltiticians, cultural and political leaders, activists of the the Uprising on June, 1941, local partisans, leaders of the antisoviet oragnizations, disidents, refugees from the Soviet Union and criminals" (Based on LYA). There are operative files (which deals with prosecution and surveillance proceedings) related to suspicious persons or to group of persons (for example: leaders of Jewish organizations (in Interwar period and early Soviet occupation period in 1940) and re...

  10. Mikrofilmų, gautų iš TSRS valstybinių archyvų, kolekcija

    • Collection of Microfilms Received From the USSR State Archives

    The fonds consists of documents, reports, lists, and various kinds of materials concerning annihilation of local residents (mostly Jews) in all of Lithuania.

  11. Vilniaus apylinkės teismas

    • Vilnius District Court

    The files of civil and criminal proceeding, courts' investigations, interrogations, accusations. The files consist of the personal information and include names of Jews. Also there is information about confiscation of the Jewish property.

  12. Tvarkos policijos vadas prie SS ir policijos vado Lietuvoje

    • Der Kommandeur der Ordnungspolizei beim SS-und Polizeiführer in Litauen
    • Order Police of the Police Chief of Lithuanian SS

    The fonds contains personal documents of locals who joined the self-defence battalions (later auxiliary police). Documentation concerning activities of the soldiers of the battalion, such as guarding prisoners in the Kaunas hard labour prison), correspondence, reports, orders of the battalion chiefs.

  13. Ukmergės apskrities policijos Želvos punktas

    • Želva Police Precinct of Ukmergė District

    Documentation concerning events in the district, correspondence between the chief of the district and the chief of police of the district, information about suspected and arrested persons, information regarding communists and suspected communists and Soviet activists,as well as Jews, criminals, and persons accused of being disloyal to the Nazis; documention concerning confiscation of Jewish property, rules for how to handle Jewish property, lists of residents, lists of Jewsarrested and transported to the district prisons.

  14. Šiaulių apskrities viršininkas

    • Der Kreishauptmann von Schaulen
    • Chief of Šiauliai District

    "The collections of the heads of the counties contain important documents concerning the Holocaust in the Lithuanian provinces" (Galina Žirikova, Lietuvos centrinio valstybės archyvo fondai: holokausto Lietuvoje tyrimo šaltinis /The Collections of the State Archive of Lithuania: a Source of Research on the Holocaust in Lithuania), Vilnius: Valstybinis Vilniaus Gaono žydų muziejus, Vilnius, 2011, p. 12). Circulars and decrees of the Nazis authorities and the chiefs of the local municipalities, decrees, protocols of inquiries of local residents, documents concerning Jewish property, infor...

  15. Lietuvos ir Baltarusijos TSR teisingumo liaudies komisariato Švenčionių apskrities revoliucinio liaudies teismo Tardymo komisija

    • The Commission of Inquiry of the Revolutionary People's Court of the Švenčionys District People's Commissariat of Justice of the Lithuanian and the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republics
    • Следственная комиссия Революционного народного суда Свентянского уезда Народного комиссариата юстиции Литовской и Белорусской ССР

    Files according countr-revolutionary activities and various kinds of crimes in the district; names of the local residents (including Jews).

  16. Zarasų miesto savivaldybė

    • Municipality of the City Zarasai

    Files about residents, registration cards of residents, lists of war refugees and Soviet war prisoners; correspondence between local authorities about the situation in the district, about moods of the locals; lists of workers and owners of private property, lists of traders and craftsmen; statistics about residents.

  17. Zarasų apskrities viršininkas

    • Chief of the county of Zarasai

    "The collections of the heads of the counties contain important documents concerning the Holocaust in the Lithuanian provinces" (Galina Žirikova (2011), Lietuvos centrinio valstybės archyvo fondai : holokausto Lietuvoje tyrimo šaltinis (The Collections of the State Archive of Lithuania: a Source of Research on the Holocaust in Lithuania, Vilnius: Valstybinis Vilniaus Gaono Žydų Muziejus, p. 12. Decrees, reports, circuliars of the head of the district concerning Jews, arrests of Jews; confiscation of the private property of Jews; lists of residents of the district; directives for local ...

  18. Ukmergės apskrities policijos Žemaitkiemio punktas

    • Žemaitkiemis Police Precinct of Ukmergė District

    Documentation, correspondence, reports, and registers concerning everyday life in the district and about various events and activities of the locals and authorities; information about Jews and mixed Jewish families; information about communists and people accused of being disloyal to the Nazis; lists of exiled people; lists of arrested people; documentation concerning confiscation of Jewish property, including instructions about how to handle the property, lists of property and related belongings, and lists of the property owners.

  19. Lietuvos ir Baltarusijos TSR darbo liaudies komisariatas

    • Labour People Commissariat in Lithuania and Byelorussia Soviet Socialist Republics

    Lists of local residents (Jewish names included); lists of interprises, shops, companies; documentation concerning working and searching for job.

  20. Saugumo policijos ir SD vado Lietuvoje Lietuviškojo skyriaus Kriminalinės policijos viršininkas

    • Der Kommandeur der Sicherheitspolizei und des SD Litauen Litauische Abteilung Der Leiter der Kriminalpolizei
    • Chief of of the Criminal Police of the Lithuanian Section of the Security Police and SD in Kaunas

    Reports, orders, documentations of the chief of the Criminal Police about accidents and investigations in the county; reports from the police precincts about accidents, about the mood of the locals; correspondence about wanted persons, about prisoners who had managed to escape, about prisoners of war, about how to deal with Roma residents; reports about confiscations of private property.