Kaunas Ninth Fort

• Selected Documents from the State Archive of the Russian Federation
• Atrinkti dokumentai iš Valstybinio Rusijos Federacijos archyvo

• Vilniaus Gaono žydų istorijos muziejus
• HE-35-IV (Garf)
• English, Lithuanian
• 1944-1945
• 126 pages, copies selected from 20 files; 61 pages, copies selected from 1 file.
• Updated 9 years ago

Protocols of the witnesses of the mass killings in the Vilnius and Suvalkai area, in the Vilnius ghetto, Paneriai mass killing site. Memoirs of the Jewish survivors (members of the corpses burning brigade in Paneriai) and IX Fort in Kaunas. Protocols, acts, and other documentation compiled by the Extraordinary Soviet Commission (1944). First list of Jews living in Lithuania (compiled on September 1944). Total 1195 persons (data includes names, names of both parents, birth date). Second list of Jewish residents in Lithuania (27 September 1944). Total 468 persons (name, surname, place of birth).

• Kaunas Ninth Fort Museum

• Kauno Regioninis Valstybės Archyvas
• F. 1291
• English
• 1966-1974
• 186 files.
• Updated 10 years ago

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.

• Zentralgefängnis in Kauen
• Kaunas Hard-Labour Prison

• Lietuvos Centrinis Valstybės Archyvas
• F. R-731
• English
• 1941-1944
• 4 subfonds and 6167 files.
• Updated 10 years ago

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 ...

• 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).
• Updated 7 months ago

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...