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Language of Description: German
Language of Description: English

  1. Orpo Kommando Kaunas, Fond R-1018/1

    Contains information on police personnel and orders, the rights and duties of police in occupied areas, and the Kaunas concentration camp.

  2. Kaunas SD Prison, Fond R-731/1

    Contains Jewish name lists and case files from the Kaunas hard labor prison.

  3. Lithuanian section at German Sipo and SD Kaunas, Fond R-1216/1

    Contains German Sipo reports, as well as information relating to the Marijampole, Mazeikiai, and Zarasai districts; the persecution of Roma and Sinti; Jews in Lithiuania; and the transfer of stolen property.

  4. Lithuanian Ambassador to Germany (Skirpa), Fond 1398/1

    Contains correspondence, notes, and other documents relating to the office of the former ambassador of independent Lithuania in Germany, Kazys Skirpa. The material includes letters to the prime minister and other members of the government about Lithuania’s position at the beginning of the war, an unsigned letter entitled “To liberate Lithuania forever from the Jewish yoke,” appeals to the Lithuanian nation, and letters from Reichminister Dr. Lammers.

  5. Kommandatura Kaunas, Fond 1444/1/2

    Contains correspondence, certificates, requests, reports, announcements, and orders from the German defense minister; information on partisans; and other documents from the Kommandatura Kaunas (Military Commander’s Office in Kaunas).

  6. Arbeitsamt Kaunas (Fond R-1474/1)

    Contains a name list of craftsman and specialists; personal data for workers in Kaunas; a name list of males born in 1912, 1919, and 1925; and requests, reports, orders, and medical certifications relating to labor in Kaunas and in Germany.

  7. Rokiskis concentration camp for Jews (Fond R-1515/1)

    Consists of pay sheets for all levels of concentration camp administrative personnel.

  8. Deutsche Baubataillon, Kaunas (Fond R-1547/1)

    Contain records relating to forced labor. Includes information on construction work, the guarding of Jews, and methods used to increase the pace of work.

  9. 11th Police Reserve Baubataillon (Fond R-1552/2)

    Includes member lists and requests from an officer to use trains for members.

  10. Vilnius Sipo und SD ( Fond R -1742/1)

    Contains lists of persons arrested and murdered during a period of the German occupation.

  11. Selected records the Lithuanian Central State Archives, Jager report (Fond 1742/1)

    Contains reports, personal files, and legal documents relating to the escape of the president, Antanas Smetona form Lithuania, the Jäger Report on Einsatzkommando 3, and Lithuania's cultural relations with the Soviet Union.

  12. Kretinga district police commander, Fond R-1665/2

    Contains requests, name lists of police, records on the chief of police, and crime statistics.

  13. Rokiskis district police commander in Uzinth (Fond R-708/1)

    Consists of a name list of policemen who received awards for the performance of various duties.

  14. Sipo und SD Kommandant Kaunas (Fond R-1399/1)

    Contains reports, instructions, correspondence, clippings, underground publications, registration cards, notes, name indexes, office documents, photographs, administrative maps, and investigation files. The documents pertain to the activities of partisans and persons suspected of being Communists or Soviet paratroopers.

  15. Edward Steiner papers

    Contains information about Edward Steiner's Holocaust experiences in the Pionki, Płaszów, Pustkow, and Auschwitz camps.

  16. Handwritten copies of original Nuremberg documents

    Contains a custom-made wooden box containing seven oversized copies of original handwritten Nuremberg documents and two oversized OSS R&A report pages.

  17. Captured German records returned by USSR to Lithuania in 1953 (MVD) (R-1173)

    Record group 1173. Contains trophy documents from Germany relating to Lithuanian citizens collected by police and secret services.

  18. Goldhersz family papers

    Contains a doctoral dissertation written by Sara Goldherszowna; a report card for Sara Goldherszowna; a photograph of Sara Goldherszowna; a photograph of the ship, Cap Arcona, that later sunk with 6800 people on board; and a Łódź ghetto work card for Pinkus Goldhersz.

  19. Goldberg family papers

    Contains five legal documents and twenty-one photographs pertaining to the Holocaust experiences of the Goldberg family.

  20. Dr. Aharon Pick diary

    Dr. Aharon Pick (also spelled Pik or Pieck) created his diary in the Šiauliai ghetto between 1941 and 1944. In it, he remembers life in Lithuania before the Soviet take over in June 1940, life under the Soviet regime, his efforts to have his son be accepted at Vilna University, and the situation in Lithuania and in Šiauliai, particularly on the eve of the German invasion in June 1941. He then describes Šiauliai ghetto, educational and cultural activities in the ghetto, unsanitary conditions and public health in the ghetto, and Judenrat activities in the ghetto. David Pick buried the diary a...