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Country: Latvia

  1. Jēkabpils apriņķa vecākais

    • Kreisleiter Jacobstadt
    • Jekabpils County Leader

    The fonds contains information about the district administration since 19th century. The war period documents show information about the Jewish property.

  2. Talsu apriņķa vecākajs

    • Talsi County Leader
    • Kreisleiter Talsen

    The fonds contains information about the district administration since 1919. The wartime documents include information about the Jewish property – belongings left after eviction of Jews, misappropriation and purchase of Jewish property. Destruction of the Jewish cemetery in Talsi (October-November of 1942), interdiction of contacts between non-Jews and Jews working for Organization Todt in Mersrags and Upesgriva (May, 1943).

  3. Limbažu pilsētas valde

    • Limbazi City Council
    • Stadtverwaltung Lemsal

    The fonds contains information about the town’s history administration since the 19th century. Most of the wartime files contain data concerning confiscation of Jewish trade and industry enterprises (1941).

  4. Latvijas vēstures dokumenti ārzemju arhīvos

    • Foreign archive documents about Latvian history

    Registration cards of Latvian inmates of Stutthof and Buchenwald Concentration camps.

  5. Kinožurnāls “Padomju Latvija” Nr. ½, sižets “Latvija -mūsu mājas” ; 1989.g.

    • Newsreel “Soviet Latvia” Nr. 1/2; "Latvia – our home"; 1989

    Footage includes establishment of Jewish Cultural Association of Latvia in 1988, former Jewish theater (view of lobby; speakers: M. Vulfson and academic J. Stradins; sculptress L. Novozeneca and Rabbi M. Nidels); Jews visiting the former ghetto area; a monument to the victims of fascism; sculptress L. Novozeneca creates an image of Zanis Lipke; girls singing in Hebrew.

  6. Dokumentālā filma “Un atkal cerība”

    • Documentary “And There is Hope Again”

    This documentary is about Jewish culture in Latvia. It includes footage of M. Vestermans; the ensemble “Ufkum”; a children’s theatre: art theorist T. Vlasova; artist H. Risins; sculptress L. Novozeneca; jeweller Z. Smarkovics; the ensemble “Kinors”; Art historianH. Dubins; and musicologist L. Krasinska)

  7. Kinožurnāls “Latvijas hronika” Nr.14/15, 1990.g.

    • Newsreel “Chronicle of Latvia” Nr.14/15; 1990.g.

    Footage includes unveiling of the memorial stone at the site of the former Great Choral Synagogue on July 4, 1989;. Bikernieku and Rumbulas cemetery, people with flowers at Bikernieku and Rumbulas cemetery,, a monument to the victims of fascism; conversation with Johanna Lipke about Zanis Lipke; procession through former streets of ghetto; opening of the Zana Lipke monument, by sculptress L. Novozeneca, at Meza kapi; and Yad Vashem in Israel.

  8. Tukuma-Talsu apriņķa policijas iestādes

    • Tukums-Talsi District Police Institutions
    • Polizeibehörden des Kreises Tukums-Talsen

    The fonds contains extensive information about activities of the Police institutions in the district since 1919. The wartime documents include information about the Jewish property and the acquisition and registration of Jewish belongings; confiscation of Jewish books; hiding of Jews; Jews who escaped from Kaltene camp (August 1941) and from the Salaspils pit factory; Jews and Poles who escaped from Częstochowa prison; list of Jews in Talsen; manhunting of Roma; Roma living in Kandava (1942); Russian prisoners of war who escaped from Grobina camp; and a list of prisoners of war.

  9. Daugavpils apriņķs vecākais

    • Kreisleiter Dünaburg
    • Daugavpils County Leader

    Jewish property, acquisition and use, hiding of Jews by Latvians, participation in mass killings, food supply to Jews, certifying of civil parish employees of being of non Jewish origin (1942).

  10. Kuldīgas pilsētas valde

    • Kuldiga City Council
    • Stadtverwaltung Goldingen

    The fonds contains information about the town’s history and administration since the 19th century. The war period documents include lists of Jewish property, registration of property, acquisition of Jewish property and belongings, a list of Jews sent to do agricultural work throughout the district (1941), and a list of war prisoners in the Kuldīga camp (1941-1942).

  11. Kandavas pilsētas valde

    • Kandava City Council
    • Stadtverwaltung Kandau

    The fonds contains information about the town’s history and administration since 1912. The wartime documents include orders of the district chief to demolish all Jewish cemeteries in the district and to transfer all Jewish vital records to the Riga archive (1942).

  12. Madonas apriņķa policijas iestādes

    • Madona District Police Institutions
    • Polizeibehörden Kreis Madohn

    The fonds contains information about activities of the Police Institution in the district since 1919. The wartime documents include information about evictions of Jews from apartments; lists of Jewish property and belongings; information about seizing of Jewish possessions and list of goods taken; and information about Jews arrested in Litene, Jaungulbene, Dzelzava, and Gulbene (1941-1943).

  13. Tirdzniecības un rūpniecības akciju sabiedrība "Kūdra"

    • Trade and Industry Joint Stock Company "Peat"
    • Torfwerk Kudra

    The fonds contains information about the work of pit factories throughout Latvia. The wartime documents include lists of ghetto inmates with dates of birth working at the Torfwerks throughout Latvia (Aizpute, Garoza, Misa, Sloka-Kemeri, Priedasine, Olaine, Salaspils, Skrunda, Smārde, Kukas, Ploce); rules about treatment of Jews at work; increasing of working capacity by providing of additional food rate; and a list of Jews from Priedaine Torfwerk who were sent back to the Riga ghetto on October 28, 1943.

  14. Rīgas apriņķa vecākais

    • Kreisleiter Riga
    • Riga County Leader

    The fonds contains information about the activities of district administration since 1919. The wartime documents include a list of Jews living in the district and information about people sent to the Riga ghetto, mixed marriages, and the fates of children from mixed marriages (1941).

  15. Ludzas pilsētas valde

    • Ludza City Council
    • Ludza Stadtverwaltung

    The fonds contains information about the town history and activities of the city council since the 19th century. The wartime documents include lists of Jewish property in Ludza and information about the acquisition and use of Jewish property.

  16. Daugavpils pilsētas valde

    • Daugavpils City Council
    • Stadtverwaltung Dünaburg

    The fonds contains a large amount of information about the town history and its administration since the 19th century. The wartime documents include information about forced labour, a list of Jews who were working, a list of Jews who were provided with food and food carts, and lists of ghetto inmates (1941-1943).

  17. Dobeles pilsētas valde

    • Dobele City Council
    • Stadtverwaltung Dobeln

    The fonds contains information about the administration of the town since 1918. The wartime documents include lists of Jewish belongings and purchases of Jewish property (February 1942).

  18. Tiesu palātas prokurors

    • The Trial Chamber Prosecutor

    The fonds contains information about trials and police activities, as well as about the Communist Party. The wartime documents include information about Jewish property, cases that were dismissed (including cases brought by Jews, July 1941), the burning of Audrini village, and escapes by prisoners of war from their place of settlement (1942).

  19. Jēkabpils pilsētas valde

    • Jekabpils City Council
    • Jacobstadt Stadtverwaltung

    The fonds contains information about the history of the town and activities of the city council since the 19th century. The war period documents include information about purchases and acquisitions of Jewish property, use of Jewish belongings, granting of former Jewish apartments (1941-1942), and a list of war prisoners (1942).

  20. Kinožurnāls "Ostland Woche” Nr. 4

    • Newsreel “Ostland Woche” Nr. 4

    A few shots: anti-Soviet exhibition in Riga. Anti-Semitic posters are visible in some plans.