Ventspils apriņķa policijas iestādes

  • Ventspils District Police Institutions
  • Polizeibehörden Kreis Windau
Identifier
1726
Language of Description
English
Dates
1919 - 1940, 1941 - 1945
Level of Description
Fonds
Languages
  • German
  • Latvian
Scripts
  • Latin
Source
EHRI

Extent and Medium

601 files

Scope and Content

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).

Accruals

No other records expected.

System of Arrangement

Files are arranged according to the inventories.

Conditions Governing Access

Free access.

Finding Aids

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

Existence and Location of Copies

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

Archivist Note

Entry added on June 13, 2014 by Rita Bogdanova based on finding aids available at the repository.

Rules and Conventions

EHRI Guidelines for Description v.1.0

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