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Language of Description: English
Country: Lithuania

  1. Lietuvių savisaugos dalių štabai

    • Kommandod der Litauischen Selbstschutzeinheiten
    • Lithuanian Self-Defence Battalions

    Documentation on activities of Lithunian self-defence battalions, lists of soldiers of the battalions (personal data and personal photos included).

  2. Lietuvoje sušaudytų žydų sąrašas

    • List of Jews Killed in Lithuania
    • Vilniaus Gaono žydų istorijos muziejus
    • HE-Sušaudytųjų sąrašai
    • English
    • 1941-1944
    • The copies are from the Lithuanian Central State Archives, Lithuanian Special Archives, and the Wrublewski Library of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences. The lists are for the cities and towns of Valkininkai, Kupiškis, Pasvalys, Šilalė, Kaltinėnai, Plungė, and Jurbarkas. 200 paper copies in total. Partially handwritten.

    The copies of the lists of Jews killed in Lithuania from July 1941 to July 1944 compiled by Extraordinary Commissions or local residents. Names, surnames, and sometimes victims’ addresses are noted.

  3. 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.

  4. 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).

  5. Lietuvos partizaninio judėjimo štabas

    • The Command of Lithuanian Partisan Movement

    Documents related to the activities of the Vilnius and Kaunas ghetto prisoners' in Soviet partisans squads in Lithuania in 1942-1944: diaries, correspondence, letters and notes, descriptions of everyday life in the unit at the forest, documents of the activities of each squad (reports, announcements, orders, instructions, lists of oldiers, time tables of operations and ect). Also there are personal files of members of partisan movement, movement members' alphabetical index (1941-1949), documents of Awards Commission of Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic (awards for veterans of WWII (1958-...

  6. 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.

  7. 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.

  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 statistikos valdyba

    • Litauisches Statistisches Amt
    • Statistics Bureau of the Lithuanian General Region

    Documentation about conducting the population census; population census of the prisoners of the Vilnius and Šiauliai ghettos and labour camps in 1942.

  10. Lietuvos studijų biuras

    • Studien-Büro Litauen
    • Bureau of Lithuanian Studies

    Documents concerning events and activities of the local white-banded partisans in Lithuania during the first days of the Second World War. While the German army was entering Lithuania the Soviet Red Army tried to escape to the East; local activists were arresting communists and Jews, issuing anti-Jewish announcements, and preparing for collaboration.

  11. Lietuvos TSR komunalinio ūkio ministerija

    • Ministry of Municipal Economy of the Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic

    Subfonds No. 1 to No. 3 consist of files concerning nationalisation of private property; correspondence about staff salaries, functions and activities of the staff, as well as a list of the staff (includes many Jewish names). There is information concerning the Great Synagogue in Vilnius in the period of the first Soviet period.

  12. Lietuvos TSR mokslų akademijos Istorijos instituto archyviniams dokumentams skelbti redakcijos veiklos bylų apyrašas Nr. 55

    • Lithuanian SSR Academy of Sciences History Institute's Activities Concerning the Publishing of the Edited Archival Records. Subfonds No 55

    The subfond consists of the files of collections of the microfilmed copies of interrogation minutes of the persons sentenced for collaboration with Nazis and killings of the Jews. There is a possibility to finds copies of the files concerning activities of collaborators in almost every district of Lithuania. Files from No. 68 to 215 are related to collaboration and participation in mass killings: - Files No. 130, 131, 145: Ukmergė district. - Files No. 128, 138, 145: Trakai district. - Files No. 98-100: Kaunas district. - Files No. 105-106: mass killings in Paneriai. - File No 132: Utena di...

  13. 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...

  14. Lietuvos TSR vidaus reikalų ministerijos fondas. Įskaitos (tremties) bylos

    • Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic Ministry of Internal Affairs. Files of Exile

    The fond consists of 3 subfonds: 1. Files for persons who were deported to Siberia from Lithuania in 1939-1941: personal information, lists of the members of the family, indictment, place of exile; applications of relatives to get permissions for the members of the family to return home (1945-1946); permissions; declined applications; documents of rehabilitation (from 1989). 2. Alphabetical card-index for the exiled persons (there are 2613 names of Jews). 3. The register of the files of the deportation from 1953 to 1959 (34 units). Deportations to Siberia were organized by the NKVD represiv...

  15. Lietuvos TSR vietinės pramonės ministerija

    • Ministry of Industry of the Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic

    Documents about nationalized Jewish property throughout all of Lithuania starting from August 1940.

  16. Lietuvos žydų sporto ir gimnastikos sąjungos „Makabi“ skyriai

    • Lithuanian Jewish Sports and Gymnastics Organization Maccabi

    Documents of the activities of Maccabi organizations in towns of Šiauliai (Shavl) and Žagarė (Zhager) (activities, various events, competitions, lists of teachers and students, correspondence, courses for teachers, financial and annual reports, circulars of the Board of Organization; lists of readers in the library, lists of members of organization, personal cards, etc.).

  17. 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...

  18. 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.

  19. Marijampolės apskrities ir valsčių savivaldybės

    • Municipalities of the Small Rural Districts of Marijampolė County

    Files from the municipalities of 22 small rural districts of Marijampolė County. Lists of the residents (includes many Jewish names) of the district, lists of nationalized Jewish property, correspondence concerning the labour of war prisoners, list of the Marijampolė Judenrat, correspondence concerning food supply and Jewish property, lists of arrested Jews, lists of Jewish property and lists of local residents who have bought Jewish belongings and property (October 1941).

  20. 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...