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Language of Description: English
Country: Latvia

  1. Rīgas apriņķa policijas iestādes

    • Riga District Police Institutions
    • Polizeibehörden Kreis Riga

    The fonds contains information about the activities of the police administration in the district since 1919. The wartime files contain Drechsler’s orders (August 1941) regarding restrictions for Jews (wearing of Star of David, occupations, use of transport, etc.).

  2. Iekšlietu ģenerāldirekcija

    • Directorate General of the Interior
    • Generaldirektion des Innern

    Schema of Directorate General system; minutes of Directorate General board; correspondence with local boards about work organization and economy; personal files of employees; lists and forms of Latvian and Russian war refugees (1941-1944). Biographies of the city elders with data about participation in actions against partisans and “cleaning” actions in 1941.

  3. Talsu apriņķa vecākajs

    • Talsi County Leader
    • Kreisleiter Talsen

    The fonds contains information about the district administration since 1919. The wartime documents include information about the Jewish property – belongings left after eviction of Jews, misappropriation and purchase of Jewish property. Destruction of the Jewish cemetery in Talsi (October-November of 1942), interdiction of contacts between non-Jews and Jews working for Organization Todt in Mersrags and Upesgriva (May, 1943).

  4. Jēkabpils apriņķa vecākais

    • Kreisleiter Jacobstadt
    • Jekabpils County Leader

    The fonds contains information about the district administration since 19th century. The war period documents show information about the Jewish property.

  5. Rīgas pilsētas Veselības valde

    • Riga City Board of Health
    • Gesundheitsamt der Stadt Riga

    Dismissals of Jewish doctors and nurses; Jewish doctors requesting pay salaries for July-August of 1941; revealing of graves in Biķernieki forest (August 1941). Ghetto area – jurisdiction; responsibility of ghetto inmates for upkeep of buildings, roads, and sanitation in ghetto (October 1941); Jews who committed suicide; discovering of Jews who died in hospital (1942).

  6. Rīgas apriņķa vecākais

    • Kreisleiter Riga
    • Riga County Leader

    The fonds contains information about the activities of district administration since 1919. The wartime documents include a list of Jews living in the district and information about people sent to the Riga ghetto, mixed marriages, and the fates of children from mixed marriages (1941).

  7. Tukuma apriņķa vecākais

    • Kreisleiter Tukums

    The fonds contains information about the district administration since 1919. The wartime documents include regulations to wear the Star of David, lists of Jewish property, applications to allocate former Jewish property and belongings (1941-1943).

  8. Madonas apriņķa policijas iestādes

    • Madona District Police Institutions
    • Polizeibehörden Kreis Madohn

    The fonds contains information about activities of the Police Institution in the district since 1919. The wartime documents include information about evictions of Jews from apartments; lists of Jewish property and belongings; information about seizing of Jewish possessions and list of goods taken; and information about Jews arrested in Litene, Jaungulbene, Dzelzava, and Gulbene (1941-1943).

  9. Valmieras pilsētas komandantūra

    • Valmiera City Commandant's Office
    • Stadtkommandantur Wolmar

    Checking for Jewish apartments; arrests of Jews. July 1941.

  10. Vācijas bruņoto spēku pavēlnieks Austrumzemē

    • Wehrmachtsbefehlshaber im Ostland
    • Wehrmacht Commander in Ostland

    Jewish property, including information about confiscations; printed forms to inventory Jewish property; lists of names and addresses of Jewish houses taken by the Wehrmacht, which contain information about furniture and house goods; copies of order of the Wehrmacht-Ortskommandantur Riga for the confiscation of property; eviction of Jews from their apartments. Use of Jews in forced labour, including information about work conditions, whether to consider them as war prisoners, guarding and separating them from general population, payment for work; regulations of transfer of Jews from and into...

  11. Latvijas PSR Ārkārtējā republikāniskā komisija (VĀK)

    • The Soviet State Extraordinary Commission for Ascertaining and Investigating the Crimes Committed by the German-Fascist Invaders and Their Accomplices
    • Чрезвычайная республиканская комиссия Латвйской ССР

    Losses to Latvian SSR and citizens of various regions of the USSR due to Nazi German occupation; inventory document sand statements; summary lists about Latvian SSR and its cities, districts, and rural municipalities, and about Lithuanian SSR, districts (oblast) of Minsk, Orel, Smolensk, Vitebsk, Kalinin, and Leningrad; summary notes and primary documents of losses made to institutions, enterprises, and public organizations of Latvian SSR; general notes about citizens killed in cities and districts of Latvian SSR and about Latvian SSR citizens deported to work in Germany; lists of Nazi Germ...

  12. Latvijas vēstures dokumenti ārzemju arhīvos

    • Foreign archive documents about Latvian history

    Registration cards of Latvian inmates of Stutthof and Buchenwald Concentration camps.

  13. Rīgas pilsētas Izglītības valde

    • The Riga Board of Education
    • Bildungsamt der Stadt Riga

    Transfer of Jews and Jewish institutions to ghetto area; acquisition of former Jewish institutions; information about Jewish labour and rules for payment; excluding of the Jewish school at Lačplēša Street 141 from the ghetto territory and its transfer to the Russian primary school; lists of Jewish and German emigrants writers.

  14. Rigas pilsetas tirdzniecības un rūpniecības valde

    • The Riga City Board of Trade and Industry
    • Handels- und Gewerbeamt der Stadt Riga

    Contains information about moving to ghetto, including vacating of apartments and information about the Jewish Committee; moving of non-Jewish shops from the ghetto territory and opening of Jewish shops in ghetto; closing of gas supply to the ghetto suburb (October 1941); statistical information about the number of ghetto inhabitants in regard to the working Jews, food rations, work payments, forced labour, list of Jewish women married to Christians and living outside of Ghetto (1943); renaming of ghetto to Russian Camp (1943).

  15. Daugavpils apriņķs vecākais

    • Kreisleiter Dünaburg
    • Daugavpils County Leader

    Jewish property, acquisition and use, hiding of Jews by Latvians, participation in mass killings, food supply to Jews, certifying of civil parish employees of being of non Jewish origin (1942).

  16. Rīgas pilsētas Galvenā un personālā valde

    • Main Board and Staff of City of Riga
    • Haupt- und Personalamt der Stadt Riga

    List of doctors and nurses who were dismissed or who did not appear to work, including Jewish doctors, June-August of 1941; Jewish property, including it acquisition; establishing of ghetto; transfer of Jewish schools and hospitals to the ghetto suburb; stopping of gas supply to the ghetto (1941); closing of ghetto in 1943; establishing of commission to take over the ghetto and renaming of ghetto to Russensiedlung.

  17. Rīgas apgabaltiesas prokurors

    • Riga District Court Prosecutor
    • Riga Kreigerichts Staatsanwalt

    The fonds contains information about supervision of criminal and civil cases since 1917. The wartime documents contain information about unlawful acquisition of Jewish property, escapes from prisoner-of-war camps, and interdiction of contacts with Jews.

  18. Vācu kinožurnāli, Rullis Nr. 12

    • “Reel” (“Rullis”) Nr. 12 (director unknown); motion pictures from the German occupation period

    A few shots: A group of Jewish workers is assigned to clear the rubble of a ruined building in Riga (July, 1941).

  19. Kinožurnāls “Die Deutsche Wochenschau” Nr. 29

    • Newsreel “Die Deutsche Wochenschau” Nr. 29

    A few shots: hostilities in Ukraine; a Jew being beaten; Jews in custody.

  20. Kinožurnāls "Ostland Woche” Nr. 4

    • Newsreel “Ostland Woche” Nr. 4

    A few shots: anti-Soviet exhibition in Riga. Anti-Semitic posters are visible in some plans.