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Country: Lithuania

  1. 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 ...

  2. Kauno apskrities viršininkas

    • Der Kreischef in Kauen
    • Chief of the District of the City of Kaunas

    Circulars and announcements by Nazi authorities, including announcements from the Kaunas administrative region commissar SA Oberfurer A. Lentzen concerning the limiting of the activities of local Jews 4/8/1941; order by the Kaunas administrative region commissar sent to the head of the county to bring together all Jews in order to establish their number 22/8/1941. Circulars and announcements from local administration, including circular from the head of the Kaunas county sent to all heads of rural districts and police chiefs concerning establishment of the Kaunas ghetto 15/8/1941; orders gi...

  3. Panevėžio apskrities valsčių savivaldybės

    • Municipalities of the Small Rural Districts of the Panevėžys County

    Documentation, reports, orders and announcements of the chiefs of the small rural districts of Kupiškis, Miežiškiai, Naujamiestis, Panevėžys, Piniava, Pumpėnai, Rozalimas, Šeduva, Šimonys, and Troškūnai. Information includes administrative documents, applications of residents to obtain passports, reports about everyday life in the county, statistics about residents, correspondence, etc. There are also reports and decrees by the general advisor for internal affairs for municipalities of the small rural districts of Panevėžys County concerning attitudes toward local residents and attitudes to...

  4. Zarasų apskrities viršininkas

    • Chief of the county of Zarasai

    "The collections of the heads of the counties contain important documents concerning the Holocaust in the Lithuanian provinces" (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. Decrees, reports, circuliars of the head of the district concerning Jews, arrests of Jews; confiscation of the private property of Jews; lists of residents of the district; directives for local ...

  5. 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 ...

  6. Viešosios policijos vadovybė prie SS ir policijos vado Vilniuje Vilniaus miesto SS ir viešosios policijos valdyba

    • Kommando der Schutzpolizei beim SS- und Polizeistandortführer in Wilna
    • Command of City Police with the SS and Police Location Commander in Vilnius

    Documents concerning forced labour for Jews and related correspondence between SS and police Standartenfuehrer about this; instructions issued by SS and police chief concerning use of Jewish labour force in Vilnius city; list of 45 Jews who were working at the police station in the city on January 1942; various permissions and certificates for the SS and police staff; lists of the police officers; documentation concerning the Lithuanian SS legion; other items.

  7. Lietuvos partizaninio judėjimo štabas

    • The Command of Lithuanian Partisan Movement

    Documents related to the activities of the Vilnius and Kaunas ghetto prisoners' in Soviet partisans squads in Lithuania in 1942-1944: diaries, correspondence, letters and notes, descriptions of everyday life in the unit at the forest, documents of the activities of each squad (reports, announcements, orders, instructions, lists of oldiers, time tables of operations and ect). Also there are personal files of members of partisan movement, movement members' alphabetical index (1941-1949), documents of Awards Commission of Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic (awards for veterans of WWII (1958-...

  8. Vilniaus miesto savivaldybė

    • Stadtverwaltung Wilna
    • Municipality of the City of Vilnius

    This collection holds "documents dealing with the use of the Vilnius Ghetto inmates for work, payrolls, food cards for Jews, lists of the Jews in Vilnius 1 and 2 ghettos (September 1941), requests by gentiles to buy confiscated Jews' property" (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, p. 11. The fonds consists of personal documents of residents (154108 personal cards), docum...

  9. Vilniaus apygardos komisarinis tarėjas

    • Kommissarischer Gebietsrat Wilna-Land
    • Commissar Councillor of the Vilnius Region

    Documents and orders of the German authorities and Lithuanian administration, reports of the chiefs of the districts about situation in the districts, orders and correspondence about nationalized Jewish property, registration of Jewish property; lists of property and equipment of Jewish doctors, registration and information about synagogues in the district and about cultural heritage, lists of Jewish doctors, etc.; register lists of the Auxiliary police, payment lists for local residents for their help with confiscated Jewish property (for example: for sorting of the property, cleaning, tra...

  10. 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 ...

  11. Atrinkti dokumentai iš Lietuvos mokslų akademijos Vrublevskių bibliotekos Rankraščių skyriaus

    • Selected Records from the Wroblewski Library of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences – Manuscripts Department

    Documents of the State Commissions (subcommission of the Extraordinary Soviet Commission) for investigating Nazis crimes (mass killing sites) established in the main towns in Lithuania. Statements compiled by the State Commissions have been based on the reports collected from the different municipalities of Lithuania.

  12. Lietuvos TSR mokslų akademijos Istorijos instituto archyviniams dokumentams skelbti redakcijos veiklos bylų apyrašas Nr. 55

    • Lithuanian SSR Academy of Sciences History Institute's Activities Concerning the Publishing of the Edited Archival Records. Subfonds No 55

    The subfond consists of the files of collections of the microfilmed copies of interrogation minutes of the persons sentenced for collaboration with Nazis and killings of the Jews. There is a possibility to finds copies of the files concerning activities of collaborators in almost every district of Lithuania. Files from No. 68 to 215 are related to collaboration and participation in mass killings: - Files No. 130, 131, 145: Ukmergė district. - Files No. 128, 138, 145: Trakai district. - Files No. 98-100: Kaunas district. - Files No. 105-106: mass killings in Paneriai. - File No 132: Utena di...

  13. 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,...

  14. 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...

  15. Panevėžio apskrities viršininkas

    • Der Kreischef des Kreises Ponewesch
    • Regional Administration of Panevėžys County

    Various kinds of documentation concerning the situation in the town and district; orders, reports, and circulars of the head of the district; lists of residents, lists of confiscated private property of local Jews throughout the district; applications of residents to obtain private property and houses of Jews; reports of the chief of Panevėžys County to the Gebietskommissar about lists of people who had received private property of Jews for free or had bought them; lists of people (295 names) who had purchased private property of Jews made up by the liquidation commission of the head of the...

  16. Atrinkti duomenys iš Flossenburgo koncentracijos stovyklos memorialo

    • Selected Records from the Flossenburg Concentration Camp Memorial
    • Vilniaus Gaono žydų istorijos muziejus
    • HE-Flossenburg
    • English
    • 1943-1945
    • 12 pages of copies from the Flossenburg Concentration Camp Memorial database; 14 pages of copies of lists of prisoners with Jewish names from Lithuania from the Flossenburg Concentration Camp Memorial archives. All copies are printed.

    There are 12 pages of the paper copies from the Flossenburg Concentration Camp Memorial database. The information of the database is based on jpeg copies made from the microfilm in Federal Archives Berlin, which microfilmed it from the National Archives in Washington, DC, in 1967. The copies consist of names of 207 Jews deported from Lithuania. There are also 14 pages (of 17) of the paper copies of a digital file (Tiff) of a transport list (Kaufering-Leitmeritz) of prisoners with Jewish names from Lithuania (compiled 7 January 1945) from the Flossenburg archives. A digital (Tiff) file was m...

  17. Tauragės apskrities viršininkas

    • Der Kreischef in Tauroggen
    • Chief of Tauragė County

    "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, p. 12. The fonds contains the documents on the confiscation of the Jewish property, also there are lists of the war prisoners, correspondence on food supplying, documentation about taking local people for the...

  18. SS ir policijos vadas Vilniuje

    • Der SS-und Polizeistandortführer Wilna
    • Chief of the SS and Police in Vilnius

    Various documents concerning the Jews in the Vilnius region (attitudes toward Jews, establishment of the ghettos); registers of the residents by nationality; maps and drawings of the Vilnius administrative region and the localisation of police stations; lists of the headquarters of the criminal police, SS, and self-defence police; working conditions of police stations, social-political descriptions of local residents in the region; lists of Nazi enterprises in the region, etc.

  19. 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.

  20. Saugumo policijos ir SD vado Lietuvoje Vilniaus skyrius

    • Der Kommandeur der Sicherheitspolizei und des SD Litauen Aussendienststelle Wilna
    • Chief of the SS and SD in Lithuania, Vilnius Department

    Reports, correspondence, documentation about activities of SS battalions, personal documents of SS soldiers; lists of arrested Jews, permissions given to relatives to visit arrested persons, lists of residents accused of criminal activity, documentation about arrested Soviet soldiers, prisoners of war; lists of Jews workers, and etc.