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Holding Institution: Lietuvos Centrinis Valstybės Archyvas

  1. Generalinis komisaras Kaune

    • Der Generalkommissar in Kauen
    • General Commissar of the Lithuanian General Region

    The fonds consists of documents concerning confiscation and destruction of Lithuanian Jews' cultural valuables and attempts to save them in the ghetto. Items include orders, circulars, and correspondence of the Kaunas Gebietskommissar SA Hauptsturmfuehrer Jordan concerning confiscation of cultural valuables owned by Jews, communists, and Freemasons; documentation by Ostaland reichskomissar Lohse concerning the procedures for confiscating cultural valuables of political parties and organizations.

  2. Darbo birža Kaune

    • Arbeitsamt Kauen
    • Labour Office in Kaunas

    Various documents on forced labour of Jews as well as for locals; lists of artisan, trades and specialists in the town and the district; correspondence concerning labour; statistics; applications/permissions for work. Lists of local citizens brought to Germany for forced labour and their propagandistic correspondence to family members (they were forced to write misleading letters that claimed that their circumstances were fine.)

  3. 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.

  4. Lietuvos žydų visuomeninės organizacijos

    • Jewish Trade Unions and Other Associations in Lithuania

    Documents deal with the activities of: Jewish society "Švietimas ir darbas" (Engl. Education&Work) in Alytus; Central workers 'cooperation of the production (Lith. Centralinis darbininkų gaminamasis kooperatyvas "Kūjis") "Hammer"; "ORT" in Lithuania; "Kultur Lyga" in Kaunas; Kaunas employees union (for all staff members of the industrial and trade companies); Trade union of the craftsmen of clothes, bedding and hats; Lithuanian Jews craftsmen society; Lithuanian Jews craftsmen society Telšiai (Telsh) department; Lithuanian Jewish teachers society "Hamore"; Telšiai (Telsh) Jewish craftsm...

  5. Kauno karo komendantūra

    • Litauische Kommandantur in Kaunas
    • Military Commandant in Kaunas

    Reports of the Military Commandant in Kaunas; various instructions for staff of the commandant; documentation concerning activities of local Auxiliary police; orders concerning forced labour for prisoners of war; lists of members of Auxiliary police; restrictions imposed on Jews; documentation about establishment of the Kaunas (Kovno) ghetto in Vilijampolė and forcing people to move into the ghetto.

  6. Saugumo policijos ir SD vado Lietuvai Lietuviškasis Panevėžio skyrius

    • Litauische Abteilung-Ponewesch des Kommandeurs der Sicherheitspolizei und des SD in Litauen
    • Panevėžys Department of the Security Police and SD in Lithuania

    The fond consist of files about persecution and, arrests; anti-semitic documents and reports, documents about mixed marriages and families; lists of arrested Jews, lists of Jews who were given to Nazi Security Police authorities; reports on moods of locals, files of investigations. Correspondence of the Chief of the Department of Local Security Police and SD with Nazi authorities; list of staff members of the Security Police in Panevėžys.

  7. Kazys Škirpa

    • Kazys Škripa, Ambassador of Independent Lithuania in Germany, 1942

    The fond consists of the collection of personal documents (see also UHSMM collection description). The most important document in this fonds is the anti-Jewish proclamation of the Front of Lithuanian Activists (LAF; col. Kazys Škirpa was a leader of this Front). The LAF organized the June Uprising (June 23-26, 1941) with the aim of re-establishing Lithuanian independence with the help of Nazis. The members of this Uprising were fighting against communists and Jews and participated in pogroms throughout Lithuania. Excerpts from the third part of the memoir book of Kazys Škirpa, "Kovok! Pasta...

  8. Žydų reikalų ministerija

    • The Ministry of Jewish Affairs of the Republic of Lithuania

    The draft versions' of statutes, orders, circulars of the Constituent Seimas, protocols of the elections of the boards of the Jewish communities; documentation concerning education and organizations of the public societies; documents concerning taxes; protocols of the meetings of the authorities of the Ministry of the Jewish Affairs; documents related to the establishing of various Jewish organizations in Lithuania; correspondence with the chiefs of the counties concerning everyday questions; correspondence with Jewish organizations in foreign countries; documents concerning the establishin...

  9. Lazdijų apskrities viršininkas

    • Der Kreis-chef des Kreises Lasdien
    • Chief of Lazdijai District

    The fonds consist of documents of local collaborator' institutions and Nazi authorities, including: various kind of reports, orders, circulars, correspondence, register books of residents, lists of arrested people, lists of Soviet war prisoners, and lists of confiscated Jewish property (with names of owners). There are also documents concerning establishment of the ghetto in Lazdijai and about anti-Jewish moods amongst local residents.

  10. Vilniaus vaivadijos valdyba

    • Wileński Urząd Wojewódzki
    • The Board of Vilnius Provice (Poland)

    Various documents related to the administration of the region with 8 districts and Vilnius town (orders and reports, lists of the residents, lists of the staff members, applications of the residents to get personal documents, documents according cultural, social, and religion life, documents of the communities and ect). Files with personal documents of residents of Vilnius and surrounding areas (a significant number of the Jewish residents included were killed in Paneriai (Ponary) ).

  11. Žydų mokslo institutas (JIVO) Vilniuje

    • Žydowski instytut naukowy (JIWO) w Wilnie
    • Institute for Jewish Research (YIVO) in Vilnius

    Fonds consists of various documents collected by the employees of the Scientific Institute: documents of different Vilnius city and Vilnius region Jewish public organizations and institutions; Jewish community documents, correspondence with Jewish communities abroad; documents of activities of educational institutions, Jewish theatres, printing houses, trade unions; documents regarding pogroms in Byelorussia and Ukraine; press cuttings, the Vilnius ghetto documents; personal documents of the Jewish writers and poets with their notes, pieces of works, poems, lyrics; material collected by the...

  12. 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.

  13. Marijampolės apskrities viršininkas

    • Chief of Marijampolė County

    The subfonds No. 7 contains the files and documents on war refugees from Klaipėda region (German Memelland, which was occupied by the Nazis on March 23, 1939), the lists of the chiefs of the Jewish metrics registration departments (1920–1940), the applications of the residents (there are many Jewish names) to go abroad (January–December 1939), the lists of the residents (there are Jewish names) who were not allowed to go abroad (January–December 1939); orders and instructions from the chief of the county to the chiefs of the small rural district and the chiefs of the police precincts concer...

  14. Vilniaus apygardos komisaras

    • Der Gebietskommissar Wilna-Land
    • Commissar of Vilnius County

    Different kinds of documents from the Ostland Reich Commissar; reports for the occupied country; documents about administrative fines for residents; correspondence about sanitary inspections and about forced labour and workers; lists of Jews working in the factories in Vilnius and information concerning their food allowances; other documents.

  15. Panevėžio miesto savivaldybė

    • Municipality of the City of Panevėžys

    The fonds consist of the personal documents (applications of residents to obtain passports); documents about the activities of the municipality (lists of businesses, schools, shops, etc. with information about the owners and lists of teachers, doctors, traders, shopkeepers, etc.); documents about attitudes toward Jews from summer–late autumn 1941 (lists of arrested Jews, documents about confiscation of private property, etc.).

  16. 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.

  17. Vilniaus žydų getas

    • Ghetto der Stadt Wilna
    • The Vilnius Ghetto

    The fonds contains various documents covering different aspects of Jewish life in the ghetto (activities of Judenrat, Ghetto police, Health care, Labour, Cultural, Social care and other institutions). Sub-fonds no 2 consist of various posters of performances, concerts, lectures, sports events, meetings, events held in the Vilnius ghetto in 1942-1943

  18. Švenčionių apskrities viršininkas

    • Chief of Švenčionys District

    The files concern anti-semitic posters from April 1942 ("Jews are your deadly enemy"); confiscation of Jewish property and adaptation for such property for public use (for example: the synagogue was adapted for police purposes); the report of the chief of the county concerning registration by doctors Aryan origins all cases of deaths of Jews in August 1942; the main instructions for how settlements in the county were to deal with Jews, how they were to forced Jews to work, how they were to confiscate and register private property of Jews from September 1941.

  19. 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.

  20. Laikraščio ,,Panevėžio apygardos balsas“ redakcija

    • Editors of the Newspaper "Panevėžio apygardos balsas" (English: The Voice of Panevėžys County)

    Propaganda of Lithuanians nationalists; programme of the Lithuanian Activist Front (with some antisemitic paragraphs); various announcements and reports of the Nazi authorities, proclamations, drafts of nationalist articles, etc.