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Holding Institution: Lietuvos Centrinis Valstybės Archyvas

  1. 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...

  2. 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...

  3. 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...

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

  6. 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.

  7. Antinacistinės rezistencijos spauda. Lietuvos generalinė sritis

    • Collection of Press Items from Anti-Nazi Resistance. Lithuanian General Region

    'Prints by the Union of the Lithuanian Fighters' for Freedom: "Laisvės kovotojas", ,"Laisvas žodis", "Apžvalga", "Frontas"; proclamations, appeals, letters, posters. Prints by the members of the various organization in Lithuania (prints: ,"Į laisvę", "Lietuvių frontas", "Lietuvių fronto biuletenis", "Pogrindžio kuntaplis", "Atžalynas", "Baltija", "Nepriklausoma Lietuva", "Karinės ir politinės žinios", "Lietuvos laisvės trimitas", "Vieninga kova", "Mūsų žemė", "Naujas žygis", "Naujo žygio apžvalga", "Tautos žodis", "Lietuva", "Naujoji Lietuva", "Vardan tiesos". Some of the prints have antise...

  8. Joniškio miesto savivaldybė

    • The Municipality of the City of Joniškis

    The subfonds consist of the files from the interwar period until the end of Second World War, including correspondence between the mayor of the city with the chief of the police and the chiefs of the local rural districts on various questions; registers of residents; applications from residents for passports; lists of residents who were given passports; registers of traders; registers of owners of the private property. The subfonds include documents from the period of the Nazi occupation and documents of the collaborating authorities, as well as circulars, reports, and orders of the Gebitsc...

  9. 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 ...

  10. Vilniaus miesto policijos 3-ioji nuovada

    • Police Station No 3 of the City of Vilnius

    Various administrative documentation; reports about incidents in the county, about moods of locals; documentation concerning transferring of Jews to the ghetto, confiscation and registration of Jewish property; lists of Jews; lists of Vilnius Criminal Police, reports about accident in the "Kailis" forced labour camp for Jews in Vilnius (on November 1943); other items.

  11. Šiaulių apskrities valsčių savivaldybės

    • Municipalities of the Local Rural District of Šiauliai

    Documents concerning activities of the municipalities of the local rural districts Gaščiūnai, Joniškis, Klovainiai, Lygumai, Linkuva, Pakruojis, Radviliškis, Stačiūnai, and Šiaulėnai, including various correspondence, reports, notes, registers, letters, announcements, restrictions, applications from residents and permissions issued by the authorities; documentation concerning private property, business, taxes, issuing of passports; documentation concerning confiscation of Jewish property (lists of belongings, lists of owners, documents about evaluation of the belongings, register of local r...

  12. 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...

  13. 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.

  14. Šiaulių apskrities valsčių savivaldybės

    • The Municipalities of Šiauliai Local Rural Districts

    Documents of activities of Gaščiūnai, Joniškis, Klovainiai, Lygumai, Linkuva, Pakruojis, Radviliškis, Stačiūnai, Šiaulėnai local rural districts municipalities (various correspondence, reports, notes, registers, letters, announcements, restrictions, applications of residensts and permissions issued by the authorities; documentation concerning private property, business, taxes, issuing of passports; also documentation concerning confiscation of the Jewish property (lists of belongings, lists of owners, documents on evaluation of belongings, register of local residents have bought Jewish prop...

  15. 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...

  16. Vyriausioji sveikatos valdyba

    • Hauptgesundheitsverwaltung
    • Central Health Administration

    Documents of administration, lists of staff members (doctors and nurses), list of Jewish property and equipment, information about infectious diseases, documents about healthcare, correspondence. There are various administrative documents about personnel and staff, lists of personnel and doctors, lists of Jewish doctors, statistics about diseases, documents concerning the County doctor’s observation of mass killing site in Švenčionys where 5000 Jews were murdered on 14 September 1942.

  17. 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.

  18. 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.

  19. 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...

  20. Kauno karo komendantūra

    • Litauische Kommandantur in Kaunas
    • Military Commandant in Kaunas

    Reports of the Military Commandant in Kaunas; various instructions for staff of the commandant; documentation concerning activities of local Auxiliary police; orders concerning forced labour for prisoners of war; lists of members of Auxiliary police; restrictions imposed on Jews; documentation about establishment of the Kaunas (Kovno) ghetto in Vilijampolė and forcing people to move into the ghetto.