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  1. Εθνική Αντίσταση (Συλλογή Μαρτυριών ΕΡΤ)

    • National Resistance (collecting testimonies EΡT)
    • Ethniki Antistasi (syllogi martyrion EΡT)

    It includes interviews with individuals related to mass executions committed by the Germans, the resistance activities, the action of security battalions, the participation of Greek Jews in the Resistance.

  2. Αρχείο Ηλία Παπαστεργιόπουλου

    • Archive Papastergiopoulos Ilias
    • Archeio Ilia Papastergiopoulou

    It includes stories of massacres, mass executions during the Occupation, catalogues of executed people, reports of the National Resistance and the action of Greek People's Liberation Army [Ελληνικός Λαϊκός Απελευθερωτικός Στρατός], newspaper clippings with pictures and names of rebels, newspaper articles on action of the security battalions, testimonies on Greek Jews.

  3. Αρχείο της Οικογένειας Τριανταφυλλάκου

    • Archive Triantafyllakos Family
    • Archeio oikogeneias Triantafyllakou

    The entire material is estimated at 565 pages and includes lists of Resistance members, reports on sabotage, proposal for setting up security battalions, documents on deportation of Greek Jews.

  4. Ιστορικό Αρχείο της Ιεράς Συνόδου της Εκκλησίας της Ελλάδος/Βιβλία πρακτικών

    • The Historic Archive of the Holy Synod of the Church of Greece/Minute Books
    • Istoriko Archeio tis Ieras Synodou tis Ekklisias tis Ellados/Vivlia praktikon

    The proceedings of the Holy Synod for the period of WWII and after the liberation of Greece. There are protests against the German and Bulgarian measures, the deportation of the Jews in Thessaloniki.

  5. 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.

  6. Saugumo policijos ir SD vado Lietuvai Lietuviškasis Kauno skyrius

    • Litauische Abteilung-Kauen des Kommandeurs der Sicherheitspolizei und des SD in Litauen
    • Chief of the SS and SD in Lithuania, Kaunas Department

    Various documents on the activities of the staff of Lithuanian SS and SD department (includes documents about collaboration with local partisans – for example: reports by the leader of the Vilijampolė partisan unit to the chief of the security department of the Kaunas administrative region about arrested Jews on June 23, 1941; list of residents (mostly Jews) arrested by partisans of Vilijampolė partisan unit), orders to the Auxiliary police, applications from residents to release relatives who were in custody. Documents and correspondence with the Lithuanians state security about attitude o...

  7. Vilniaus miesto apygardos profesinių sąjungų biuras

    • Büro der Berufsverbände Gebiet Wilna-Stadt
    • Bureau of the Trade Unions of the City of Vilnius

    Documents concerning forced labour camps; lists of Jewish workers; various documentation dealing with better organization of forced Jewish labour, etc.; registers of Jewish workers in the forced labour camps in the county.

  8. Συλλογή Αλμπέρτος Ναρ

    • Collection Albertos Nar
    • Syllogi Albertos Nar

    Interviews with local Jews and Holocaust survivors for the Jewish life in Thessaloniki and Greece prewar period, during WWII and postwar period.

  9. Συλλογή Άγγελος Παπαϊωάννου

    • Collection Angelos Papaioannou
    • Syllogi Angelos Papaioannou

    The collection contains 1.200 postcards related to the history of the different ethnic and religious minorities of the city. A number of them related to the Salonican Jews.

  10. Švenčionių apskrities policijos vadas ir punktai

    • Police Commander and Police Stations of Švenčionys District

    The fonds consists of documents about confisacation of Jewish property: lists of things and personal belongings (with names of owners mentioned); reports about arrested people, prisoners of war, soviets activists; correspondence with the chiefs of the districts concerning moods of the locals.

  12. Saugumo policijos ir SD vado Lietuvoje Lietuviškojo skyriaus Kriminalinės policijos Vilniaus apygarda

    • Der Kommandeur der Sicherheitspolizei und des SD in Litauen Litauische Abteilung Kriminalpolizeibezirk-Wilna
    • Chief of the Criminal Police of Vilnius County of the Security Police and SD in Lithuania

    List of arrested residents, criminal proceedings, and investigations concerning the committed crimes.

  13. Vilniaus miesto ir apskrities viršininkas

    • Der Kreischef von Wilna
    • Chief of the City and Administrative Region of Vilnius of the Lithuanian General Region

    This collection "includes documents about the establishment of ghettos in the county of Vilnius " (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. 12. Documents, correspondence, reports and announcements issued by local collaboration authorities concerning situation in the district and attitude toward local residents. Some files are about the establishing of the Vilnius ghe...

  14. Vilniaus apskrities policijos Naujosios Vilnios nuovada

    • Police Station in Naujoji Vilnia of the Vilnius County

    Statistics compiled by the mayor regarding the residents of Naujoji Vilnia by nationality, confidential documents concerning imprisoning of Jews in the ghettos and safeguarding their property and all precedures regarding this, orders by the chief of the Vilnius county to the chiefs of the county police stations concerning arrests of runaway Jews in hidding and taking them to Lukiškės prison.

  15. 814-oji karo lauko komendantūra

    • Feldkommandantur 814
    • Military Field Commander Number 814 in Vilnius

    This collection contains "the 4 July 1941 announcement by S. Žakevičius, chairperson of the Lithuanian citizens' committee of the city of Vilnius and regions concerning the obligation to wear special badges, the introduction of a ban for Jews to leave home after a definite hour and other documents restricting Jews' civil rights" (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,...

  16. Vilniaus miesto vykdomojo komiteto Sveikatos apsaugos skyrius

    • Health Executive Committee of Vilnius city

    Documents about activities of the medical institutions in Vilnius; lists of physicians and medical staff (Jewish names included).

  17. Reichsleiterio Rosenbergo operatyvinio štabo okupuotoms sritims Darbo grupė Lietuvoje

    • Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg für die besetzten Gebiete Arbeitsgruppe Litauen
    • Vilnius Branch of the Rosenberg Operative Command of the Lithuanian General Region

    "Documents about the looting of Jewish cultural valuables in Lithuania are very scarce"(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. Correspondence of the Rosenberg Operative Command in Lithuania concerning various questions and research, reports of the Herman Kruk working groups in the Vilnius ghetto about the activities of the collecting of the valuables, reports o...

  18. Generalinis komisaras Kaune

    • Der Generalkommissar in Kauen
    • General Commissar of the Lithuanian General Region

    The fonds consists of documents concerning confiscation and destruction of Lithuanian Jews' cultural valuables and attempts to save them in the ghetto. Items include orders, circulars, and correspondence of the Kaunas Gebietskommissar SA Hauptsturmfuehrer Jordan concerning confiscation of cultural valuables owned by Jews, communists, and Freemasons; documentation by Ostaland reichskomissar Lohse concerning the procedures for confiscating cultural valuables of political parties and organizations.

  19. 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...

  20. Ukmergės apylinkės teismas

    • The Court of the Rural District of Ukmergė

    The fonds contains civil and criminal files, protocols of the interrogations of eyewitnesses with testimonies about events in the town during the Second World War.