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  1. Lietuvių aktyvistų frontas

    • Lithuanian Activist Front of the Lithuanian General Region

    Documents of the activities of members of the Lithuanian Activist Front, including reports, orders, correspondence, and a memorandum about the situation in Lithuania in the first days of the Nazi occupation, their attitude toward the Jews, lists of troops of the battalions, etc.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. Lietuvos TSR komunalinio ūkio ministerija

    • Ministry of Municipal Economy of the Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic

    Subfonds No. 1 to No. 3 consist of files concerning nationalisation of private property; correspondence about staff salaries, functions and activities of the staff, as well as a list of the staff (includes many Jewish names). There is information concerning the Great Synagogue in Vilnius in the period of the first Soviet period.

  6. Lietuvos TSR vietinės pramonės ministerija

    • Ministry of Industry of the Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic

    Documents about nationalized Jewish property throughout all of Lithuania starting from August 1940.

  7. Ostlando filmų įmonės Lietuvos skyrius Vilniuje ir Ostlando filmų bendrovės Kauno skyrius

    • Filmbetriebe Ostland Zweigstelle Litauen, Wilna; Ostland-Film-Gesellschaft m. b. H. Zweigstelle Kauen)
    • Vilnius and Kaunas Departments of the Ostland Films Company in Lithuania

    Documents related to Nazi propaganda films; list of movie theatres in Lithuania; list of the theatres’ staff members, list of Jewish staff members.

  8. 1924-1952 metų studentų asmenų bylų sąrašas (tvarkomasis)

    • List of Students' Personal Files in 1924-1952 (Regulative)
    • Vilniaus Universiteto archyvas
    • F. R-856
    • English
    • 1924-1952
    • 3925 personal files. The fonds is without subfonds. Almost all documents are handwritten.

    Personal files of the students of the Vilnius University. The files consist of various documents (applications, certificates of birth, graduation from the school certificates, reports). 20% of files are with Jewish names. The files on 1939-1941 years consist of the names of the potencially killed Jews in 1941-1944. The files from 1944-1946 consist of the information of the Jews survivor who applied for the studies at the university after the WWII.

  9. 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...

  10. 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...

  11. 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...

  12. 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 ...

  13. Заявления и удостоверения на евреи във връзка с имущественото им състояние

    • Jewish claims and testimonies related to their property status

    Заявления и удостоверения на евреи във връзка с имущественото им състояние

  14. Кореспонденция с Общинския съюз на българските индустриалци, министерства, организации и др.

    • Correspondence with the Municipal Union of Bulgarian Industrialists, Ministries, Organizations, etc.

    Кореспонденция с Общинския съюз на българските индустриалци, министерства, организации и др. по утвърждаване бюджетите на съюзните поделения, по събиране на вноски, по ликвидацията на идустриалните предприятия на евреи, по подпомагане на пострадалите от наводнение във Видин и др.

  15. Consistoire Israélite

    • Isrealite Consistory

    This collection contains mainly out of documents from the time 1940 to 1945 and concerning residence permits (1-4), confiscations (5-13), consistories abroad (14), correspondence (15-23), deportations (24-36), miscellaneous (37-49), war damage (50), personal records (51-59), emigration (see also miscellaneous and personal records) (60-62), finances (63-75), estate ("fortune") (76-81), instructions (82-84), press (85-87), population census (88-90), sequester (91).

  16. Consistoire Israélite II

    The fonds consists principally of documents created during the Second World War, especially from the time of the occupation of Luxembourg until 1943. It contains a list of Jews residing in Luxembourg, emigration of Jewish citizens and miscellaneous correspondence; Correspondence between the Jewish consistory and Chef de Civil Administration, confiscation of Jewish property, list of Jewish immigrants in North America, financial assistance to Jewish deportees, administration of Jewish property, Jewish nationals staying in Cinqfontaines - match "Ältestenrat der Juden" fees building on the barr...

  17. Card indexes of Jews persecuted during World War II

    The Federation of Jewish Communities in the Czech Republic (FJC) has several card indexes at its disposal: The central card index served the occupation authorities during World War II to keep an overview of most Jewish persons from Bohemia and Moravia. Before the end of the war, the Nazis tried to destroy the majority of important documents that could, inter alia, attest to their part in the extermination of Jews. They were particularly thorough with destroying the cards of deported persons. Yet they were not successful in destroying all the evidence. Some of the cards were preserved, and m...

  18. Objedinjeni fond Komisija za utvrđivanje zločina okupatora i njihovih pomagača u Banja Luci

    • Combined fond of the Committee for crimes of occupation forces and collaborators in Banja Luka

    Just after the war Committee's were organized with the goal to research and document all war crimes committed by the Axis powers and their local collaborators. The documentation contains information about victims, war damages, etc.

  20. Flygtningedatabasen 1933-1945

    • Refugee Database 1933-1945
    • Rigsarkivet
    • Flygtningedatabasen 1933-1945
    • English
    • 1933-1945
    • files of 8.160 refugees

    Database has files of 8.160 refugees: 1) political and Jewish refugees, some of which stayed for a shorter or a longer period of time in Denmark, 2) refugees who have been rejected at the border, 3) person who sought asylum in vain either from abroad or from family and friends.