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

  1. Rokiškio apskrities policijos Južintų punktas

    • Police Department for Južintai County, Rokiškis District

    Various administrative documents; personnel files of the staff; pay registers; applications of residents to join the police precinct; information about Poles in the district as well as war refugees, prisoners of war, Jews; reports about criminal incidents and various protocols concerning crimes; certificates issued to police officers of the sef-defence battalions; lists of police officers; lists of arrested people; other items.

  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. 11-as rezervinės policijos batalionas

    • Reserve-Polizei - Batallion 11

    Correspondence with the chief officer of the Battalion (previously the Kaunas Military Commandant) about activities and soldiers; the loose lists of the register of the residents (including names of soldiers) was compiled on 27 May 1942.

  4. Saugumo policijos ir SD vado Lietuvoje Lietuviškojo skyriaus Kriminalinės policijos viršininkas

    • Der Kommandeur der Sicherheitspolizei und des SD Litauen Litauische Abteilung Der Leiter der Kriminalpolizei
    • Chief of of the Criminal Police of the Lithuanian Section of the Security Police and SD in Kaunas

    Reports, orders, documentations of the chief of the Criminal Police about accidents and investigations in the county; reports from the police precincts about accidents, about the mood of the locals; correspondence about wanted persons, about prisoners who had managed to escape, about prisoners of war, about how to deal with Roma residents; reports about confiscations of private property.

  5. Rokiškio apskrities žydų koncentracijos stovykla

    • Rokiškis Concentration Camps for Jews

    The file consists of the documents about the staff of the concentration camp (pay register); an application rom the head of the Jewish property liquidation committee to the head of the concentration camp requesting more payment for overtime.

  6. Vilniaus žydų tikybinė bendruomenė

    • Gmina Wyznaniowa Żydowska w Wilnie
    • Vilnius Jewish Religious Community

    Various documents concerning activities of the community; documentation of the Board of the community, including correspondence, meeting protocols, and related documents; lists of community members; certificates of birth, marriage, and death; certificates of war refugees; permissions issued by the community to bury in the Jewish cemetery; financial documents, etc.

  7. Vilniaus žydų muziejaus dokumentų kolekcija

    • The Collection of the Documents of the Vilnius Jewish Museum

    The fonds contains with Vilnius ghetto documents (forced labour for Jews, FPO (ghetto partisants' organization) documentation, register of Jews workers); list of Ukmergė Jews who perished between August-September 1941; plan of Švenčionys ghetto, documents about mass killings in small towns of the Vilnius region; registration cards of Jews, records of the Kovno Jewish ghetto administration and police; documentation about activities of the Vilnius Jewish Museum which was re-established by survivors in autumn 1944. Memoirs of prisoners of the ghettos, photos of people who rescued Jews, photos ...

  8. Žydų geto policija

    • Jüdische Ghetto Polizei
    • Jewish Ghetto Police

    This collection contains various documents covering different aspects of Jewish life in the ghetto. USHMM: "Records of the Kovno Jewish ghetto administration and police". Various kinds of documents from the Kaunas (Kovno) ghetto period, from the ghetto’s establishment on August 1941 until November 1943. Lists of prisoners, lists of arrested people, lists of prisoners sent to Ryga forced labour camps, various registration lists/books of prisoners in the ghetto, reports and orders of the chief of the ghetto police, documents concerning forced labour and Jewish workers in labour camps in Kauna...

  9. Žydų reikalų ministerija

    • The Ministry of Jewish Affairs of the Republic of Lithuania

    The draft versions' of statutes, orders, circulars of the Constituent Seimas, protocols of the elections of the boards of the Jewish communities; documentation concerning education and organizations of the public societies; documents concerning taxes; protocols of the meetings of the authorities of the Ministry of the Jewish Affairs; documents related to the establishing of various Jewish organizations in Lithuania; correspondence with the chiefs of the counties concerning everyday questions; correspondence with Jewish organizations in foreign countries; documents concerning the establishin...

  10. Iš Vokietijos gautų dokumentų kolekcija

    • Captured German Records Returned by the USSR to Lithuania in 1953

    Includes: Polizeipraesident zu Berlin, Polizeidirektion Tilsit, SS Totenkofp Sturmbahn Konzentrationslager Lublin, SS und Polizei fuehrer Ausbildungslager Travniki, RSHA Gestapo Berlin, Heeresgruppenkommando I, Gestapo Stapostelle Zichenau, etc. USHMM: "Information collected by the German security services regarding the local population, the Red Army, Communists, anti-German movements in the Baltic, and "deserters" [Lithuanian Central State Archives, Fonds 1173/1, 2, 4, and 7; 2000." Files of: prisoners of war, prisoners and guards of concentration camps, policemen of the Lithuanian Auxilia...

  11. 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.).

  12. Utenos žydų privatinė progimnazija

    • Private Jewish School of Utena

    Registers of the activities of the school, lists of pupils, correspondence with the Ministry of Education regarding education process, exams, educational programmes, and various questions; applications from parents to accept their children to the school, to receive benefits, etc.; copies of graduation certificates, lists of the teachers, etc.

  13. 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...

  14. 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...

  15. Ministry of Domestic Affairs of the Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic (Vilnius)

    This fonds contains official orders, decrees, proclamations, and announcements from the occupying authorities. Proclamation by the Liberation propaganda headquarters in Lithuania: proclamation urging people to fight the "Jewish constitution" and demeaning Jews. Appeal to fight Soviet rule; appeal to fight the Jews. The Jews accused of deporting Lithuanians. Proclamation of the information bureau of Lithuania in Berlin (part 4 is addressed to Jews: they are advised to "get out of Lithuania to avoid becoming unnecessary victims"). Call to expropriate Jews' property.

  16. Šeinė Sideraitė

    Autorės mokslo darbai (disertacija, straipsniai, pranešimai), atsiliepimai, recenzijos, užrašai; asmens, mokslinės, tarnybinės ir visuomeninės veiklos dokumentai: mokslo baigimo diplomas, pažymėjimai, darbo licenzija, autobiografijos, charakteristikos-rekomendacijos, prašymai kelionėms į užsienį, autorės gautų apdovanojimų dokumentai, stažuočių, konferencijų, seminarų pažymėjimai, sertifikatai, įsakymai, pažymos apie paskyrimus, perkėlimus tarnyboje, komandiruotes, endokrinologijos tarnybos Lietuvoje organizavimo, skydliaukės tyrimo, veiklos Respublikiniame priešstruminiame komitete dokumen...

  17. Ašmenos kalėjimas

    • Ašmena Prison

    Various documentation: correspondence, orders of the chief of the prisons, reports, lists of the prison's staff; statistics on prisoners, personal cards of the prisoners (1942-1943).

  18. 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.

  19. 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.

  20. 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...