Archival Descriptions

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Country: Latvia
  1. 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...

  2. 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.

  3. 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).

  4. Rēzeknes apriņķa policijas iestādes

    • Rezekne District Police Institutions
    • Polizeibehörden Kreis Rezekne

    The fond contains a large amount of information about activities of the Police Institution in the district since 1920. The wartime documents include information about Jewish property, acquisition of former Jewish belongings, confiscation of radios and bicycles, divorcing of mixed marriages, hiding of Jews, baptizing of Jews, list of Christian priests who baptized Jews, measures for preventing demonstration of November 8, 1941 (commemorating the Revolution of 1917) at the places of mass executions and Jewish cemeteries, Jews from Rezekne prison working at factories in Rezekne, Ortskommandant...

  5. Rīgas pilsētas policijas iestādes

    • Riga City Police Institutions
    • Polizeibehörden Stadt Riga

    The fonds contains a large amount of information about activities of the Police Institution in the district since 1919. The wartime documents include reports of the chief of the Riga and district police precincts and criminal department about arrests of Jews, evictions from apartments, shooting of Jews in Riga and environs, suicide cases, burning of synagogue, and using of Jewish labour.

  6. 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.).

  7. Daugavpils pilsētas policijas iestādes

    • Daugavpils City Police Institutions
    • Polizeibehörden Stadt Dünaburg

    The fonds contains a large amount of information about activities of the police institutions in the district since 1920. The wartime documents include instructions to the chief of the Jewish camp (ghetto) and information about guarding the ghetto, internal rules, and a report about unnamed police members arresting Jews and taking their belongings in 1941.

  8. Jelgavas apriņķa policijas iestādes

    • Jelgava District Police Institutions
    • Polizeibehörden Kreis Mitau

    The fonds contains information about activities of the police institutions in the district since 1919. The wartime documents contain information about prisoners of war and war refugees, pursuit and apprehension of communists, Jews and Roma, Roma escapes from prisons (1941-1942), and lists of persons drafted into the German Army (1944).

  9. Ludzas apriņķa policijas iestādes

    • Ludza district Police Institutions
    • Polizeibehörden Kreis Ludza

    The fonds contains a large amount of information about activities of the police institution in the district since 1920. The wartime documents include information about Jewish property and arrests of Roma in the district (1941-1942).

  10. Valmieras apriņķa policijas iestādes

    • Valmiera District Police Institutions
    • Polizeibehörden Kreis Wolmar

    The fonds contains information about the activities of the police administration in the district since 1919. The war time files contain lists of nationalized and ownerless Jewish property (1942).

  11. Kinožurnāls “Padomju Latvija” Nr. 5/6, 1945.g.

    • Newsreel “Soviet Latvia” Nr. 5/6

    A few shots: the discovery of a mass grave at the Šķedes sand dunes; mass grave contains the bodies of civilians murdered during the German occupation period (May, 1945).

  12. 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.

  13. Apes pilsētas valde

    • Ape City Council
    • Sradtverwaltung Ape

    The fonds contains information about the town’s history and its administration since 1919. The wartime documents include lists of confiscated property and belongings; information about establishment of a depository for cultural artefacts (books, etc.) of Jews and communists (1942); interdiction to provide Jews with footwear (1941); and lists of inhabitants, including some Jews (1941-1942).

  14. Ventspils apriņķa policijas iestādes

    • Ventspils District Police Institutions
    • Polizeibehörden Kreis Windau

    The fonds contains a large amount of information about activities of the police institution in the district since 1920. The wartime documents include information about Jewish property, (October 1941), arrests of escaped Jews and transferring them to the Ventspils security police, deserters from SS Legion, (July 1944), arrests of Roma (1944), list of Russians in the district (1945).

  15. Krustpils pilsētas valde

    • Krustpils City Council
    • Stadtverwaltung Kreuzburg

    The fonds contains information about the town history and its administration since 1919. The wartime documents show lists of Jewish property, purchases of Jewish property, and bills for collecting and guarding of Jewish belongings (1941-1943).

  16. Latvijas PSR Valsts drošības komitejas (VDK) par sevišķi bīstamiem pretvalstiskiem noziegumiem apsūdzēto personu krimināllietas

    • The Latvian SSR Committee of State Security (KGB) Criminal Case Files of Persons Accused of Particularly Dangerous Anti-Government Crimes

    Fonds includes criminal cases concerning persons accused of particularly dangerous anti-government crimes against the Soviet state and who received criminal liability according to article Nr. 58 of the RSFSR Criminal Code (1926) and articles Nr. 59–68, 43, 74, and 84 of the Latvian SSR Criminal Code (1961), and persons who lived and had committed crimes in the territory of the Latvian SSR or who had been born in Latvia and committed crimes in the territory of another republic of the USSR; these Criminal cases were delivered for storage in Latvian SSR CSS Archive. Criminal cases include info...

  17. Dokumentālā filma “ Vilkači”

    • Documentary “Werewolf”

    A Soviet-style film about events of World War II in Latvia, including Latvian collaboration with the German regime. A few shots show a burning synagogue and an assault on Jews.

  18. Ilūkstes apriņķa policijas iestādes

    • Ilukste District Police Institutions
    • Polizeibehörden Kreis Illuxt

    The fonds contains information about activities of the police institutions in the district since 1919. The wartime documents contain information about Jewish property.

  19. Madonas pilsētas valde

    • Madona City Council
    • Stadtverwaltung Madohn

    The fonds contains information about the town history and its administration since 1920. The wartime documents include information on Jewish property, food rationing for Jews (September 1943), and food provisioning for Madona concentration camp.

  20. 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).