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Holding Institution: Lietuvos Centrinis Valstybės Archyvas

  1. 1-asis lietuvių policijos batalionas

    • Das Litauische Schutzmannschafts - W-Bataillon Nr. 1
    • Lithuanian 1st Police Battalion

    The main function of the battalion was to guard important structures and sites (bridges, military storages, police offices, camps of the war prisoners, and forced labours camps of the Jews). Also soldiers of the battalion participated in persecution and annihilation of Jews. The fonds consists of correspondence concerning tasks for soldiers, reports and orders of the chiefs of the battalion, list of soldiers, and personal documents.

  2. 11-as rezervinės policijos batalionas

    • Reserve-Polizei - Batallion 11

    Correspondence with the chief officer of the Battalion (previously the Kaunas Military Commandant) about activities and soldiers; the loose lists of the register of the residents (including names of soldiers) was compiled on 27 May 1942.

  3. 1940 -1941 m. rinkimų dokumentų kolekcija

    • The Collection of the Election Documents (1940-1941)

    Lists of the electors (with many Jewish names) from many districts of Lithuania on December 1940-January 1941; statistics on the electors by nationality.

  4. 396-oji vyriausioji karo lauko komendantūra

    • Oberfeldkommandantur 396
    • Headquarters of Higher Field Command Number 396

    Documents about forced labour; certificates of workers; correspondence with military authorities in Königsberg and Riga about armaments supply.

  5. 814-oji karo lauko komendantūra

    • Feldkommandantur 814
    • Military Field Commander Number 814 in Vilnius

    This collection contains "the 4 July 1941 announcement by S. Žakevičius, chairperson of the Lithuanian citizens' committee of the city of Vilnius and regions concerning the obligation to wear special badges, the introduction of a ban for Jews to leave home after a definite hour and other documents restricting Jews' civil rights" (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, 2011,...

  6. Alytaus apskrities viršininkas

    • Der Kreischef Kreis Alytus
    • Chief of Alytus 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, p. 12). The fonds of the chief of the Alytus district contains the documents of the expropriation of the property of Jews. There are also lists of the former Jewish owners of the property; lists of single ite...

  7. Anatolijus Rozenbliumas

    Apyraše įrašyti autoriaus mokslo darbai (disertacija, monografija, autoreferatas, knygos, referatas, straipsniai, pranešimai, paskaitos), atsiliepimai, recenzijos, anotacijos, reziume, asmens, tarnybinės ir mokslinės veiklos dokumentai: autobiografija, charakteristika, kadrų įskaitos asmens lapas, mokslinis tiriamasis darbas ir jo ataskaitos, įvairūs duomenys ir skaičiavimai, brėžiniai, racionalizaciniai pasiūlymai, posėdžių protokolai, mokomosios priemonės, asmenų ir organizacijų laiškai bei raštai autoriui, recenzijos A. Rozenbliumo knygoms ir straipsniams, išvados apie jo rankraščius, st...

  8. Antinacistinės rezistencijos spauda. Lietuvos generalinė sritis

    • Collection of Press Items from Anti-Nazi Resistance. Lithuanian General Region

    'Prints by the Union of the Lithuanian Fighters' for Freedom: "Laisvės kovotojas", ,"Laisvas žodis", "Apžvalga", "Frontas"; proclamations, appeals, letters, posters. Prints by the members of the various organization in Lithuania (prints: ,"Į laisvę", "Lietuvių frontas", "Lietuvių fronto biuletenis", "Pogrindžio kuntaplis", "Atžalynas", "Baltija", "Nepriklausoma Lietuva", "Karinės ir politinės žinios", "Lietuvos laisvės trimitas", "Vieninga kova", "Mūsų žemė", "Naujas žygis", "Naujo žygio apžvalga", "Tautos žodis", "Lietuva", "Naujoji Lietuva", "Vardan tiesos". Some of the prints have antise...

  9. Ašmenos kalėjimas

    • Ašmena Prison

    Various documentation: correspondence, orders of the chief of the prisons, reports, lists of the prison's staff; statistics on prisoners, personal cards of the prisoners (1942-1943).

  10. Chackelis Kibarskis

    Apyraše įrašyti autoriaus mokslo darbai (autoreferatas, straipsniai, paskaitos, pranešimai, tezės), recenzijos, pastabos, kalba, mokslinės ir visuomeninės veiklos dokumentai: Vilniaus miesto Terapeutų mokslinės draugijos darbo ataskaitos, mokslinių darbų sąrašai, susirašinėjimo su asmenimis ir įstaigomis dokumentai, autoriaus surinkti dokumentai, nuotraukos.

  11. 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.)

  12. Dokumentų kopijų kolekcija

    • Collection of Document Copies
    • Lietuvos Centrinis Valstybės Archyvas
    • F. 1742
    • English, Lithuanian
    • 1916-1947
    • 2 subfonds and 47 files. Parts of the documents are handwritten. Some files are microfilmed and some consist of photographs, maps, drawings.

    USHMM: "material on resistance and rescue in Lithuania". Copies of documents concerning the annihilation of Jews in town of Vilnius and region, Nazi propaganda, anti-Nazi movement, position of the Catholic Church during WWII; documentation and correspondence between embassies (interwar period); copies of agreements between USSR and Germany; documentation regarding diplomatic relations; copies (microfilmed) of the monographs and studies by M. Jaloveckis "Lenkijos sodybos. Kaimo sodybų architektūra ir statiniai" ("Dwor Polski. Architekci į budowniczowie siedzib wiejskich") and "Lenkijos Respu...

  13. Durpių pramonės centras ir apylinkių durpynų direkcijos

    • Directorate of the Centre for the State Peat Industry

    Documents related to the forced labour camps for Jews in Vilnius district (1942-1943); lists of Jewish workers.

  14. Geležinkelių policijos vadas

    • Kaunas Eisenbahnpolizei
    • Kaunas Railway Police

    Orders and reports by the chief of the railway police about police activities; personal files of police officers.

  15. 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.

  16. Iš Vokietijos gautų dokumentų kolekcija

    • Captured German Records Returned by the USSR to Lithuania in 1953

    Includes: Polizeipraesident zu Berlin, Polizeidirektion Tilsit, SS Totenkofp Sturmbahn Konzentrationslager Lublin, SS und Polizei fuehrer Ausbildungslager Travniki, RSHA Gestapo Berlin, Heeresgruppenkommando I, Gestapo Stapostelle Zichenau, etc. USHMM: "Information collected by the German security services regarding the local population, the Red Army, Communists, anti-German movements in the Baltic, and "deserters" [Lithuanian Central State Archives, Fonds 1173/1, 2, 4, and 7; 2000." Files of: prisoners of war, prisoners and guards of concentration camps, policemen of the Lithuanian Auxilia...

  17. Joniškio miesto savivaldybė

    • The Municipality of the City of Joniškis

    The subfonds consist of the files from the interwar period until the end of Second World War, including correspondence between the mayor of the city with the chief of the police and the chiefs of the local rural districts on various questions; registers of residents; applications from residents for passports; lists of residents who were given passports; registers of traders; registers of owners of the private property. The subfonds include documents from the period of the Nazi occupation and documents of the collaborating authorities, as well as circulars, reports, and orders of the Gebitsc...

  18. Jurbarko miesto savivaldybė

    • Municipality of Jurbarkas City

    Circulars prohibiting Jews from trading; reports regarding prohibition of issuing documents to Jews; punishment for locals who hid Jews; correspondence regarding Jewish property. Lists of Jewish landowners (with family names); documentation about Jewish property. Certificates for those who were given Jewish property. Various kind of reports, including about number of Jews in Jurbarkas, obligation to wear Star of David, etc.

  19. Kaunas Major Military Construction Office Number 13

    • Kauno 13-oji didžioji kariuomenės statybos įstaiga
    • Grosse Heeresbaudienststelle 13 Kauen

    Kaunas Major Military Construction Office Number 13 supervised construction of military facilities. Correspondence regarding control of the Jewish workers (based on LCVA).

  20. Kauno apskrities viršininkas

    • Der Kreischef in Kauen
    • Chief of the District of the City of Kaunas

    Circulars and announcements by Nazi authorities, including announcements from the Kaunas administrative region commissar SA Oberfurer A. Lentzen concerning the limiting of the activities of local Jews 4/8/1941; order by the Kaunas administrative region commissar sent to the head of the county to bring together all Jews in order to establish their number 22/8/1941. Circulars and announcements from local administration, including circular from the head of the Kaunas county sent to all heads of rural districts and police chiefs concerning establishment of the Kaunas ghetto 15/8/1941; orders gi...