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Country: Lithuania

  1. Jokūbas Josadė

    The personal fonds of a famous Jewish writer who was able to escape in the first days of the Second World War to the East of the Soviet Union. There he joined to the Lithuanian 16th division of the Red Army and survived the Holocaust. The files of the fonds consist of drafts, notes, novels with corrections, articles, translations, diaries; personal documents, photos, correspondence; video documents; documents collected by J. Josadė; documents of family members about J. Josadė).

  2. Lietuvos ir Baltarusijos TSR teisingumo liaudies komisariato Švenčionių apskrities revoliucinio liaudies teismo Tardymo komisija

    • The Commission of Inquiry of the Revolutionary People's Court of the Švenčionys District People's Commissariat of Justice of the Lithuanian and the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republics
    • Следственная комиссия Революционного народного суда Свентянского уезда Народного комиссариата юстиции Литовской и Белорусской ССР

    Files according countr-revolutionary activities and various kinds of crimes in the district; names of the local residents (including Jews).

  3. Saugumo policijos ir SD vado Lietuvai Lietuviškasis Panevėžio skyrius

    • Litauische Abteilung-Ponewesch des Kommandeurs der Sicherheitspolizei und des SD in Litauen
    • Chief of the Security Police and SD in Lithuania of the Panevėžys Branch of Lithuanian General Region

    The fonds contains reports of Police precints chiefs of the districts to Police chief of the Panevėžys district concerning exile of local residents to Siberia on June 1941; reports about the first days of the Nazi occupation in the district; reports from the Security police about arrested Jews, communists and ect.

  4. 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.

  5. Saugumo policijos ir SD vado Lietuvai Lietuviškasis Marijampolės skyrius

    • Litauische Abteilung Mariampol des Kommandeurs der Sicherheitspolizei und des SD in Litauen
    • Chief of the Security Police and SD in Lithuania, Marijampolė Section

    There are documents and correspondence concerning arrests of local residents, among whom were Jews, Soviet activists, and communists.

  6. Vilniaus 190-oji kariuomenės apgyvendinimo valdyba

    • Heeresunterkunftsverwaltung 190 Wilna
    • German Army Housing Administration 190, Vilnius

    There are documents (correspondence, reports, circulars) concerning forced labour of Jews in labour camps in Vilnius (Wilna) and Kaunas (Kovno).

  7. Vilniaus miesto vykdomojo komiteto Sveikatos apsaugos skyrius

    • Health Executive Committee of Vilnius city

    Documents about activities of the medical institutions in Vilnius; lists of physicians and medical staff (Jewish names included).

  8. 1940 -1941 m. rinkimų dokumentų kolekcija

    • The Collection of the Election Documents (1940-1941)

    Lists of the electors (with many Jewish names) from many districts of Lithuania on December 1940-January 1941; statistics on the electors by nationality.

  9. Religijų reikalų taryba prie Lietuvos TSR Ministrų Tarybos

    • The Board of Religious Affairs Under the Council of Ministry of the Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic

    Register of communities; surveillance files of Jewish religious communitie; correspondence concerning activities against members of the Jewish religious communities during the period of Soviet occupation.

  10. Anna Szymajte's (Ona Šimaitė) Report on the Rescued Documents from the Vilnius Ghetto in 1941-1943

    The document consists of the information about the rescuing of documents from the Vilnius ghetto undertaken by Anna (Ona) Szymajte (Šimaitė). In the document she has listed what exactly was taken from the ghetto and then hidden outside it.

  11. Ukmergės apskrities viršininkas

    • Chief of Ukmergė County

    The fonds consists of information about refugees in 1940, correspondence and statistics about refugees in the district (there are many Jewish names), applications of the residents (many Jewish names) to obtain passports in 1940, information about Jewish organizations from 1922 to 1940, the lists of residents who were punished for administrative offenses (many Jewish names). *Note: In many cases the documents created in 1940 may provide the last information about the people in question before the Holocaust. *Note: In many cases the documents created in 1940 may provide the last information a...

  12. Vilniaus apygardos teismo prokuroras

    • Staatsanwalt beim Bezirksgericht Wilna
    • Prosecutor of Vilnius District Court

    Personal files (Jewish names included) of citizens who have committed crimes or have been suspected in committment of crime (photo of arrested person is included). The files consist of personal information as well as information of the members of the family.

  13. 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.

  14. Marijampolės apskrities ir valsčių savivaldybės

    • Municipalities of the Small Rural Districts of Marijampolė County

    Files from the municipalities of 22 small rural districts of Marijampolė County. Lists of the residents (includes many Jewish names) of the district, lists of nationalized Jewish property, correspondence concerning the labour of war prisoners, list of the Marijampolė Judenrat, correspondence concerning food supply and Jewish property, lists of arrested Jews, lists of Jewish property and lists of local residents who have bought Jewish belongings and property (October 1941).

  15. Marijampolės apskrities viršininkas

    • Chief of Marijampolė County

    The subfonds No. 7 contains the files and documents on war refugees from Klaipėda region (German Memelland, which was occupied by the Nazis on March 23, 1939), the lists of the chiefs of the Jewish metrics registration departments (1920–1940), the applications of the residents (there are many Jewish names) to go abroad (January–December 1939), the lists of the residents (there are Jewish names) who were not allowed to go abroad (January–December 1939); orders and instructions from the chief of the county to the chiefs of the small rural district and the chiefs of the police precincts concer...

  16. Rinkinių apskaitos ir apsaugos skyrius

    • Inventory and Conservation of Holdings Department
    • Vilniaus Gaono žydų istorijos muziejus
    • VŽM
    • English
    • Judaica holdings are classified as primary (VŽM) and academic support (VŽMP) collections under the Museum’s statute with consideration of the extant value of the item as a museum piece. Currently around 30,000 items are being conserved. Primary collection consists of: 1. Household decorative items, ritual equipment, tangible exhibition pieces of historical significance. 2. Writings and documents. 3. Photography. 4. Visual and decorative art. 5. Sculptor Jacques Lipchitz‘s memorial collection. 6. Archive of Josif Shapiro (collector of ex-libris).

    The collections include: 1. Household decorative items, ritual equipment, tangible exhibition pieces of historical significance. Materials include metal, wood, leather, ceramics, precious metals, textiles, bone and other materials. Among these items are around 100 unique artifacts from Paneriai mass killing sites, material from the ghetto period and from prisoners, people who perished and people who survived. There are also artifacts of the Great Synagogue and from Jewish cemeteries. 2. Writings and documents include books, press, manuscripts, posters, documents. There are 5000 items in tot...

  17. Atrinkti duomenys iš Tsentralnyj Archiv Ministerstva Oborony Rossijskoj Federatsiji

    • Selected Records from the Tsentralnyj Archiv Ministerstva Oborony Rossijskoj Federatsiji
    • Selected Records from the Central Archives of the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation
    • Atrinkti duomenys iš Rusijos Federacijos Centrinio Gynybos ministerijos archyvo
    • Vilniaus Gaono žydų istorijos muziejus
    • HE-Podolsk
    • English
    • 130 pages of the paper copies from the Central Archives of the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation (in the town of Podolsk). The copies were brought to the museum in 1995 by a visitor of the museum. The copies are with the stamp of the archives only, without any references except number of description.

    The copies of the documents (numbers of the description: 288278, 288287, 288289, 288290, 288291, 288292, 288339, 288340, 288344, 288390, 288787, 288790, 288792,289462, 353266, 353267) consist of the information (name, surname, father's name, date and place of birth, military rank, date and place of death, place of burial) for 277 Lithuanian Jews who were soldiers in the Soviet Red Army's 16th Lithuanian Division and were killed in 1943-1944 in battles with the Nazis.

  18. Kauno IX forto muziejus

    • Kaunas Ninth Fort Museum

    Some files of the fonds contain documents concerning how the museum collections were compiled (documents and register lists of the artifacts and personal belongings of people who were imprisoned in the Ninth Fort and who donated these items to the museum; documents and register lists of the items that were purchased from the locals.

  19. Ukmergė apskrities policijos Širvintų nuovada

    • Širvintos Precinct in Ukmergė District

    The fonds consists of the files with orders, circulars, instructions from the chief of the Ukmergė district, from the chief of the police, etc. There are also statistics about the activities of the local communists, reports on moods of residents, reports regarding all existing organizations in the police precinct, documents on taxes collection, etc. Lists of arrested Soviet prisoners of war, Jews, Poles, Russians, communists, foreigners, and wanted people. Register books and other documents.

  20. 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...