Archival Descriptions

Displaying items 61 to 80 of 166
Language of Description: English
Language of Description: Multiple
Country: Lithuania
  1. 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.

  2. Šiaulių apskrities viršininkas

    • Der Kreishauptmann von Schaulen
    • Chief of Šiauliai 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, Vilnius, 2011, p. 12). Circulars and decrees of the Nazis authorities and the chiefs of the local municipalities, decrees, protocols of inquiries of local residents, documents concerning Jewish property, infor...

  3. 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) ).

  4. Trakų apskrities viršininko fondas

    • Chief of Trakai County

    The collection of the chief of Trakai (Troki) county contains important documents concerning activities of the Jewish community and Jewish organizations before the Second World War. There are also documents about establishing ghettos in the district, confiscation of Jewish private property, and annihilation of Jews in the province of Lithuania.

  5. Vilniaus miesto ir vaivadijos žydų nekilnojamo turto savininkų sąjunga

    • Związek wlaścicieli nieruchomości żydów miasta Wilna i województwa Wileńskiego
    • Records of the Association of Real Estate Owners in Vilnius and Vilnius province

    Documents concerning activities of the Association of Real Estate Owners (documentation of the Board, lists of members, meeting protocols, petitions and memoranda; various agreements (between owners and tenants, between sellers and buyers; applications of owners to renovate their houses, to obtain credits, to reduces tax payments, etc.).

  6. Fondų apskaitos ir apsaugos skyrius

    • Inventory and Conservation of Holdings Department
    • Vilniaus Gaono žydų istorijos muziejus
    • VŽM
    • English
    • Judaica holdings are classified as primary (VŽM) and academic support (VŽMP) collections under the Museum’s statute with consideration of the extant value of the item as a museum piece. Currently around 30,000 items are being conserved. Primary collection consists of: 1. Household decorative items, ritual equipment, tangible exhibition pieces of historical significance. 2. Writings and documents. 3. Photography. 4. Visual and decorative art. 5. Sculptor Jacques Lipchitz‘s memorial collection. 6. Archive of Josif Shapiro (collector of ex-libris).

    The collections include: 1. Household decorative items, ritual equipment, tangible exhibition pieces of historical significance. Materials include metal, wood, leather, ceramics, precious metals, textiles, bone and other materials. Among these items are around 100 unique artifacts from Paneriai mass killing sites, material from the ghetto period and from prisoners, people who perished and people who survived. There are also artifacts of the Great Synagogue and from Jewish cemeteries. 2. Writings and documents include books, press, manuscripts, posters, documents. There are 5000 items in tot...

  7. Varėnoje sušaudytų žydų šeimų sąrašas

    • List of Jews Killed in Varėna

    The list was compiled by survivor David Jeršanski’s daughter-in-law Rina Jeršansky-Dubrovič (her father was from Kaunas); it includes surnames of 49 Jewish families (149 persons). These people were from the small towns of Perloja and Nedzingė. The list was given to the Holocaust Exhibition on 6 June 2001 by Rina Jeršansky-Dubrovič.

  8. Atrinkti duomenys iš Lietuvos ypatingojo archyvo. F. V-5

    • Selected Records from the Lithuanian Special Archives. Fonds V-5

    There are 66 pages of the 24 files for the Jews exiled to Siberia on June 14-18, 1941 (these include arrest orders and extracts from the protocols). There are also copies of applications from relatives to release a person from exile (1944-1946). 1. File 20857. Jeršanskis Ruvimas (from Varėna town). 3 pages. 2. File 36640. Mirkinas Hiršas, Mirkinienė Rocha (from Širvintos town). 4 pages. 3. File 33925. Čarnyj Maksim (from Kaunas city). 3 pages. 4. File 24372. Marijampolskis Jakovas (from Pasvalys town). 4 pages. 5. File 36317. Gadje Josifas, Gadje Roza, Gadje Rachil (from Kėdainiai town). 7 ...

  9. Dalis išaiškintų Plungės miesto žydų sušaudytų 1941-1944 m. sąrašas

    • Partial Clarified List of the Jews from Plungė Killed in 1941-1944

    The list was compiled by the Jewish folk -artist Jakovas Bunka from Plungė. The list mentions 605 Jewish names. The copies of the original document were given to the Holocaust exhibition on December 6, 1996 by Jakovas Bunka.

  10. Kupiškyje sušaudytų žydų sąrašas

    • List of Jews Killed in Kupiškis

    The list of Kupiškis Jews killed on June-July 1941 was compiled by a local doctor, Stefanija Glemžaitė, in 1946. The list includes 800 names in total.

  11. Atrinkti duomenys iš Eesti Riigi Archiiv

    • Selected Records from the Eesti Riigi Archiiv
    • Selected Records from the Estonian State Archives

    1943-1944. Register lists of the prisoners (forced labourers; also register of sick prisoners); alphabetical collection of personal cards of Jewish prisoners' (from Vilnius and Kaunas ghettos); the cards of prisoners who tried to escape and were shot. Documentation of the Extraordinary Soviet Commission (microfilms). 1944.

  12. Josifo Levinsono kopijų kolekcija sudaryta atrinktų baudžiamųjų bylų pagrindu (LYA. F. K-1. Ap. 58.)

    • Collection of Josif Levinson Based on the Selected Records from the Files of Criminal Proceeding from LYA. Fonds K-1. Subfonds 58.
    • Vilniaus Gaono žydų istorijos muziejus
    • HE-58-LEVINSON
    • English
    • 1945-1990
    • Around 2 500 pages of the copies from 816 files from the Lithuanian Special Archives (LYA) fonds K-1, subfonds 58.

    Copies concerning the mass killings of Jews and collaboration with Nazis in 89 towns of Lithuania (some copies concerning crimes in Latvia (Ryga), Byelorussia, Ukraine). There is also data on 140 persons who were involved in mass killings of Jews.

  13. Hitlerinių okupantų ir lietuvių nacionalistų sušaudytų 109 Valkininkų žydų sąrašas

    • List of 109 Jews from Valkininkai Killed by Nazi Occupiers and Lithuanian Nationalists
    • Vilniaus Gaono žydų istorijos muziejus
    • HE-Valkininkai
    • English
    • 1941
    • 2 pages of the paper copies from Valkininkai municipality archives (without any inventory number of the originals); includes names (and occupations) of 108 Jewish men.
  14. Boriso Gurinovičiaus Vilniaus miesto ir apylinkų atvirukų kolekcija

    • Borisas Gurinovičius’s Collection of Postcards of Vilnius and Surrounding Areas

    The personal fonds of the collector Borisas Gurinovičius, who was able to survive the Holocaust in the East of Soviet Union. His sizable collection consists of a large number of old postcards with views of Vilnius of towns in Byelorussia. There are also personal documents of the collector, correspondence, panels from exhibitions, personal photos and portraits, etc.

  15. 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...

  16. 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...

  17. Žydų padėties nuostatai

    • The Regulations on the Status of the Jews

    The "Regulations on the Status of the Jews" were declared by the Provisional Government and regulated the lives of the Jews in Lithuania. Under these regulations the Jews of Lithuania were deprived of all human and civil rights and were obliged to wear special marking.

  18. Rukšėnas K. Hitlerininkų politika Lietuvoje 1941-1944 metais (Istorijos mokslų kandidato disertacija)

    • Nazi Policy in Lithuania 1941-1944 (K. Rukšėnas, PhD Dissertation)

    This work contains information about Nazi attitudes toward Jews, about forced labour camps for Jews, and about Jewish prisoners in Lithuanian jails.

  19. Ukmergės kalėjimas

    • Ukmergė Prison

    Many files of people who were arrested and interrogated at the prison; files of political and criminal prisoners and POW's; personal files of Jews who were imprisoned there from the end of June 1941 until September 1941, as well as documents about prison activities.

  20. 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 ...