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Language of Description: English
Language of Description: Multiple
Country: Lithuania

  1. 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.

  2. 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) ).

  3. Žydų mokslo institutas (JIVO) Vilniuje

    • Žydowski instytut naukowy (JIWO) w Wilnie
    • Institute for Jewish Research (YIVO) in Vilnius

    Fonds consists of various documents collected by the employees of the Scientific Institute: documents of different Vilnius city and Vilnius region Jewish public organizations and institutions; Jewish community documents, correspondence with Jewish communities abroad; documents of activities of educational institutions, Jewish theatres, printing houses, trade unions; documents regarding pogroms in Byelorussia and Ukraine; press cuttings, the Vilnius ghetto documents; personal documents of the Jewish writers and poets with their notes, pieces of works, poems, lyrics; material collected by the...

  4. Ukmergė apskrities policijos Širvintų nuovada

    • Širvintos Precinct in Ukmergė District

    The fonds consists of the files with orders, circulars, instructions from the chief of the Ukmergė district, from the chief of the police, etc. There are also statistics about the activities of the local communists, reports on moods of residents, reports regarding all existing organizations in the police precinct, documents on taxes collection, etc. Lists of arrested Soviet prisoners of war, Jews, Poles, Russians, communists, foreigners, and wanted people. Register books and other documents.

  5. Grigorijus Kanovičius

    The fonds of the activities and writings of the famous Jewish writer Grigorijus Kanovičius, who, age twelve, was able to escape to the East in the first days of the Second World war and thereby survived the Holocaust. In 1945 he returned to Vilnius; he graduated from Vilnius University and in 1959 published his first novel. His novels and short stories depict life in the shtetls before the war and how life changed later, and how the Jewish communities were destroyed. The files of this personal fonds consist of drafts, fragments of novels, correspondence, personal photos, photos from events ...

  6. 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...

  7. Atrinkti duomenys iš Bergen-Belsen koncentracijos stovyklos memorialo

    • Selected Records from the Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp Memorial
    • Vilniaus Gaono žydų istorijos muziejus
    • HE-Bergen-Belsen
    • English
    • 1944-1945
    • 6 pages of paper copies from the Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp Memorial database. The title of the original list is: Registry of Names of Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp Prisoners: Excerpt of About 92 Prisoners with Lithuanian Citizenship. All copies are printed.

    A list of the Jewish prisoners from Lithuania imprisoned in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 1944-1945. In total 92 names with personal data (data and place of birth, religion, place the person was deported from, place where the person was deported, data of arrival in the concentration camp).

  8. 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...

  9. Vilniaus apygardos komisaras

    • Der Gebietskommissar Wilna-Land
    • Commissar of Vilnius County

    Different kinds of documents from the Ostland Reich Commissar; reports for the occupied country; documents about administrative fines for residents; correspondence about sanitary inspections and about forced labour and workers; lists of Jews working in the factories in Vilnius and information concerning their food allowances; other documents.

  10. Panevėžio miesto savivaldybė

    • Municipality of the City of Panevėžys

    The fonds consist of the personal documents (applications of residents to obtain passports); documents about the activities of the municipality (lists of businesses, schools, shops, etc. with information about the owners and lists of teachers, doctors, traders, shopkeepers, etc.); documents about attitudes toward Jews from summer–late autumn 1941 (lists of arrested Jews, documents about confiscation of private property, etc.).

  11. Ukmergės apskrities policijos Žemaitkiemio punktas

    • Žemaitkiemis Police Precinct of Ukmergė District

    Documentation, correspondence, reports, and registers concerning everyday life in the district and about various events and activities of the locals and authorities; information about Jews and mixed Jewish families; information about communists and people accused of being disloyal to the Nazis; lists of exiled people; lists of arrested people; documentation concerning confiscation of Jewish property, including instructions about how to handle the property, lists of property and related belongings, and lists of the property owners.

  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. Vilniaus žydų getas

    • Ghetto der Stadt Wilna
    • The Vilnius Ghetto

    The fonds contains various documents covering different aspects of Jewish life in the ghetto (activities of Judenrat, Ghetto police, Health care, Labour, Cultural, Social care and other institutions). Sub-fonds no 2 consist of various posters of performances, concerts, lectures, sports events, meetings, events held in the Vilnius ghetto in 1942-1943

  14. Švenčionių apskrities viršininkas

    • Chief of Švenčionys District

    The files concern anti-semitic posters from April 1942 ("Jews are your deadly enemy"); confiscation of Jewish property and adaptation for such property for public use (for example: the synagogue was adapted for police purposes); the report of the chief of the county concerning registration by doctors Aryan origins all cases of deaths of Jews in August 1942; the main instructions for how settlements in the county were to deal with Jews, how they were to forced Jews to work, how they were to confiscate and register private property of Jews from September 1941.

  15. Ukmergės apskrities policijos Želvos punktas

    • Želva Police Precinct of Ukmergė District

    Documentation concerning events in the district, correspondence between the chief of the district and the chief of police of the district, information about suspected and arrested persons, information regarding communists and suspected communists and Soviet activists,as well as Jews, criminals, and persons accused of being disloyal to the Nazis; documention concerning confiscation of Jewish property, rules for how to handle Jewish property, lists of residents, lists of Jewsarrested and transported to the district prisons.

  16. Atrinkti dokumentai iš Tsentr Khroneniya Istoriko-Dokumentalnykh Kolektsyi (TsKIDK)

    • Selected Records from the Tsentr Khroneniya Istoriko-Dokumentalnykh Kolektsyi (TsKIDK)/ Centre for the Preservation of Historical Document Collections

    Walter Stahlecker's second report and Karl Jäger's report on the actions of Einsatzgruppen A and local collaborators in Lithuania (October 1941-February 1942).

  17. Žydų muzikos institutas Vilniuje

    • Jewish Musical Institute in Vilnius

    Files of the institute’s activities; regulations of the institute; lists of personnel and students; registers and protocols of exams; protocols of the teacher board’s correspondence with "Joint" organization in Warsaw concerning financing and graduation certificates of students, and correspondence with other organizations about concerts of institute students and applications to the chief of the Vilnius city and district to obtain permissions for the concerts. At the beginning of the Nazi occupation all Jewish students and teachers were dismissed. They were moved to the Vilnius ghetto in Sep...

  18. 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.

  19. 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.

  20. 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).