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Language of Description: English
Country: Lithuania

  1. Rokiškio apskrities žydų koncentracijos stovykla

    • Rokiškis Concentration Camps for Jews

    The file consists of the documents about the staff of the concentration camp (pay register); an application rom the head of the Jewish property liquidation committee to the head of the concentration camp requesting more payment for overtime.

  2. Kauno miesto apygardos komisaras

    • Kaunas-Stadt Gebietskomissar
    • County Commissar of Kaunas City

    List of applications by Germans, who came to Lithuania during 1941-1944 to obtain certain goods; alphabetical documentation of German people who applied for and received these goods; documentation concerning food supply in the country and exploitation of the prisoners of war; documentation concerning confiscation of private property; registration lists of residents; list of Nazis authorities and staff.

  3. 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 ...

  4. Reichsleiterio Rosenbergo operatyvinio štabo okupuotoms sritims Darbo grupė Lietuvoje

    • Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg für die besetzten Gebiete Arbeitsgruppe Litauen
    • Vilnius Branch of the Rosenberg Operative Command of the Lithuanian General Region

    "Documents about the looting of Jewish cultural valuables in Lithuania are very scarce"(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. Correspondence of the Rosenberg Operative Command in Lithuania concerning various questions and research, reports of the Herman Kruk working groups in the Vilnius ghetto about the activities of the collecting of the valuables, reports o...

  5. 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...

  6. 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.

  7. 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.

  8. 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...

  9. Vilniaus miesto ir apskrities viršininkas

    • Der Kreischef von Wilna
    • Chief of the City and Administrative Region of Vilnius of the Lithuanian General Region

    This collection "includes documents about the establishment of ghettos in the county of Vilnius " (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. 12. Documents, correspondence, reports and announcements issued by local collaboration authorities concerning situation in the district and attitude toward local residents. Some files are about the establishing of the Vilnius ghe...

  10. 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...

  11. Žydų kultūros ir švietimo draugijos „Tarbut“ Lenkijoje Vilniaus skyrius

    • Żydowskie Stowarzyszenie Kulturalno-Oświatowe „Tarbut“ w Polsce, Oddział w Wilnie
    • Selected Records of the Jewish Cultural and Educational Association "Tarbut" of the Vilnius Section in Poland

    Various documentation of the Vilnius branch of the Tarbut movement, including statutes, reports and circulars, regulations, permits to establish training and education institutions; reports concerning activities; correspondence with other organizations; documents concerning the budget, school curricula, teacher lists, and school activities.

  12. 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...

  13. 11-as rezervinės policijos batalionas

    • Reserve-Polizei - Batallion 11

    Correspondence with the chief officer of the Battalion (previously the Kaunas Military Commandant) about activities and soldiers; the loose lists of the register of the residents (including names of soldiers) was compiled on 27 May 1942.

  14. Alytaus apskrities viršininkas

    • Der Kreischef Kreis Alytus
    • Chief of Alytus District

    "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 of the chief of the Alytus district contains the documents of the expropriation of the property of Jews. There are also lists of the former Jewish owners of the property; lists of single ite...

  15. Vilniaus sunkiųjų darbų kalėjimas (Vilniaus Lukiškių kalėjimas)

    • Das Lukischki-Gefängnis in Wilna
    • The Hard-Labour Prison in Vilnius (Lukiškės Prison) of the Lithuanian Ministry of Justice

    This collection contains "documents concerning the handing over of the Jewish inmates to the Special Squad that exterminated Jews in Paneriai" (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. Subfonds 1 and 3-5 include: alphabetical personal files of the prisoners; lists of arrested people (most of whom were Jews); list of arrested Jews who were handed over to the SS; labour ...

  16. SS ir policijos apygardos vadas Šiauliuose

    • Der SS und Polizeigebietsführer in Schaulen
    • Šiauliai City SS and Police Standortfuehrer

    Lists of the staff of the Lithuanian SS and Criminal Police; correspondence concerning events in the district.

  17. Kauno miesto žydų tikybinės bendruomenės taryba

    • Council of the Jewish Religious Community of Kaunas

    This collection consists of records of the Council of the Kaunas Jewish community in Lithuania. It reflects different aspects of the activities of the Jewish community of Kaunas during the interwar period and the beginning of the Second World War. Items include correspondence between the Jewish communities of the district; metrics and registration books of the Jewish communities of Gargždai, Ylakiai, Jurbarkas, Kėdainiai, Kybartai, Krekenava, and Plungė; documentation concerning education, social welfare, charity, financial activities, protocols of meetings of the community members, documen...

  18. 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.

  19. 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...

  20. 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 ...