Daugavpils pilsētas policijas iestādes

  • Daugavpils City Police Institutions
  • Polizeibehörden Stadt Dünaburg
Identifier
1398
Language of Description
English
Dates
1920 - 1940, 1941 - 1944
Level of Description
Fonds
Languages
  • German
  • Latvian
Scripts
  • Latin
Source
EHRI

Extent and Medium

1,741 files

Scope and Content

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.

Accruals

No other documents expected.

System of Arrangement

Files are arranged according to the inventories.

Conditions Governing Access

Free access.

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Physical condition of documents is good.

Finding Aids

  • Three finding aids, printed and handwritten, are available at the reading room.

Existence and Location of Originals

  • Original documents are in custody of The National Archives of Latvia State Historical Archives of Latvia

Existence and Location of Copies

  • USHMM RG-18.002M (Latvian Central State Historical Archive (Rīga) records)

Publication Note

A. Ezergailis. The Holocaust in Latvia, 1941-1944: the Missing Center. Riga The Historical institute of Latvia [in association with The United State Holocaust Memorial Museum], 1996. 465 p.

Katrin Reichelt. Lettland unter deutscher Besatzung 1941–1944. Der lettische Anteil am Holocaust. Metropol-Verlag Verlag, Berlin, 2011, 428 p.

Archivist Note

Entry added on June 12, 2014 by Rita Bogdanova based on finding aids available at the repository.

Rules and Conventions

EHRI Guidelines for Description / Deliverable v.17.3

Dates of Descriptions

April-June of 2014.