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Language of Description: English
Holding Institution: Lietuvos Centrinis Valstybės Archyvas

  1. Kauno miesto žydų tikybinės bendruomenės taryba

    • Council of the Jewish Religious Community of Kaunas

    This collection consists of records of the Council of the Kaunas Jewish community in Lithuania. It reflects different aspects of the activities of the Jewish community of Kaunas during the interwar period and the beginning of the Second World War. Items include correspondence between the Jewish communities of the district; metrics and registration books of the Jewish communities of Gargždai, Ylakiai, Jurbarkas, Kėdainiai, Kybartai, Krekenava, and Plungė; documentation concerning education, social welfare, charity, financial activities, protocols of meetings of the community members, documen...

  2. Kauno sunkiųjų darbų kalėjimas

    • Zentralgefängnis in Kauen
    • Kaunas Hard-Labour Prison

    This collection contains documents concerning the handing over of Jewish inmates and the mass killing of Jews at the Ninth Fort (the description based on Galina Žirikova (2011), 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 consists mostly of personal files of the arrested people. There are also administrative documents of the chief of the prison; lists of Jews who were arrested ...

  3. 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...

  4. Kretingos apskrities policijos vadas

    • Der Kreispolizeiführer in Kretinga
    • Chief of Police of Kretinga District

    Reports of the chiefs of the police precincts of the district; applications of residents concerning employment in the police; personal files of police officers; various documentation about everyday life in the district, including information concerning accidents, lists of residents, documentation about prisoners of the war and forced labour, lists of police officers of Auxiliary police, and list of people who were killed in the first days of the war.

  5. Laikinoji Lietuvos vyriausybė

    • Lithuanian Provisional Government

    This collection contains "economic and denationalisation documents with articles concerning property of Jews" (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, p. 11. There are documents from Generalkomissar A. T. von Renteln and from the head of the Provisional Government, J. Ambrazevičius. Some of these documents concern Jews. There are documents from Generalkomissar A. T. vo...

  6. 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.

  7. 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.

  8. Lietuvių aktyvistų frontas

    • Lithuanian Activist Front of the Lithuanian General Region

    Documents of the activities of members of the Lithuanian Activist Front, including reports, orders, correspondence, and a memorandum about the situation in Lithuania in the first days of the Nazi occupation, their attitude toward the Jews, lists of troops of the battalions, etc.

  9. Lietuvių saugumo policijos Vilniaus apygarda

    • Litauische Sicherheitspolizei Bezirk Wilna
    • Lithuanian Security Police of Vilnius District

    This collection contains "reports by the security police about arrested and wanted Jews, reports by agents of the security police about Jews in hiding and Christians who help them" (Žirikova Galina, 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, p. 12. Information about communists, related to Communist party or suspected to be communists; list of the Lithuanian policemen who were accomodated ...

  10. 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).

  11. 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.

  12. 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).

  13. 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.

  14. 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.

  15. 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.

  16. 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.

  17. 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.

  18. 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.

  19. 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.).

  20. 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...