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    <eadid>lv-002873-1986</eadid>
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      <titlestmt>
        <titleproper>Latvijas PSR Valsts drošības komitejas (VDK) par sevišķi bīstamiem pretvalstiskiem noziegumiem apsūdzēto personu krimināllietas</titleproper>
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      <publicationstmt>
        <publisher>Latvijas Nacionālā arhīva, Latvijas Valsts arhīvs</publisher>
        <address>
          <addressline>Bezdelīgu ielā 1A</addressline>
          <addressline>1048</addressline>
          <addressline>Riga</addressline>
          <addressline>LV</addressline>
          <addressline>(+371) 6 746 2257</addressline>
          <addressline>(+371) 2 700 8741</addressline>
          <addressline>(+371) 6 746 0462</addressline>
          <addressline>https://www.arhivi.gov.lv/content.aspx?id=344&amp;mainId=342</addressline>
          <addressline>lva@arhivi.gov.lv</addressline>
          <addressline>Latvia</addressline>
        </address>
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    <profiledesc>
      <creation>This file was exported automatically from the EHRI database administration tool and represents a work-in-progress.
        <date normal="20210102">2021-01-02T19:16:53.267Z</date>
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        <language langcode="eng">English</language>
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      <descrules encodinganalog="3.7.2">ISAD(G)

EHRI Guidelines for Description / Deliverable v.17.3</descrules>
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    <did>
      <unitid>1986</unitid>
      <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Latvijas PSR Valsts drošības komitejas (VDK) par sevišķi bīstamiem pretvalstiskiem noziegumiem apsūdzēto personu krimināllietas</unittitle>
      <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Not Described / 52,653 files, 26 files registration books and 93,608 cards</physdesc>
      <langmaterial>
        <language langcode="eng" encodinganalog="3.4.3">English</language>
        <language langcode="est" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Estonian</language>
        <language langcode="fra" encodinganalog="3.4.3">French</language>
        <language langcode="deu" encodinganalog="3.4.3">German</language>
        <language langcode="lav" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Latvian</language>
        <language langcode="lit" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Lithuanian</language>
        <language langcode="pol" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Polish</language>
        <language langcode="rus" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Russian</language>
        <language langcode="ukr" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Ukrainian</language>
      </langmaterial>
      <repository>
        <corpname>Latvijas Nacionālā arhīva, Latvijas Valsts arhīvs</corpname>
      </repository>
    </did>
    <processinfo encodinganalog="3.7.1">
      <p><![CDATA[Information provided to EHRI by Anita Zandmane, Gatis Liepiņš, Ainārs Bambals, officiers of Department Document Description of State Archives of Latvia, The National Archives of Latvia.]]></p>
    </processinfo>
    <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
      <p><![CDATA[Fonds includes criminal cases concerning persons accused of particularly dangerous anti-government crimes against the Soviet state and who received criminal liability according to article Nr. 58 of the RSFSR Criminal Code (1926) and articles Nr. 59–68, 43, 74, and 84 of the Latvian SSR Criminal Code (1961), and persons who lived and had committed crimes in the territory of the Latvian SSR or who had been born in Latvia and committed crimes in the territory of another republic of the USSR; these Criminal cases were delivered for storage in Latvian SSR CSS Archive. Criminal cases include information about: decision of arrest; decision of option for security measures; warrant of arrest; questionnaire of arrested person; photos; fingerprints; search report; report of confiscated items; receipt for delivering of valuables, money, or weapons to the state institutions; questioning report; decision about finishing investigation and conclusions about submitting case to the court, Prosecution, Special Council of the PCI (Russian: Osoboye Soveshchaniye pri NKVD), war tribunal courts, etc.; conclusion of accusation; correspondence with prison administration about residence in place of imprisonment; reports from court sessions; sentence of court or extract from decision of Special Council of the PCI; cassation appeal; statements about excluding imprisoned person from camp or prison; statements about implementation of capital punishment; statements about death or release from place of imprisonment; correspondence about rehabilitation; conclusion of rehabilitation and other documents. Attachments of criminal cases: accountancy cases; personal cases of imprisoned persons; personal cases of persons in deportation settlement; searching cases of persons; cases of confiscation belongings; materials of verification; materials of special inspection; cases of supervision in criminal records; registration journals of criminal records. Fonds includes documents about period from the civil war in Russia (1919-1920); deserters of the Front Borders and Latvian/USSR border later; documents about Soviet occupation period in Latvia (1940–1941) and Soviet repressions against inhabitants of Latvia. Crimes against humanity (including crimes related to the Holocaust) according to legislation of the USSR were classified as criminal offenses: criminal case and investigations against accused person were initiated in terms of betrayal of the Motherland. Persons involved in Holocaust-related crimes committed during the period of Nazi Germany’s occupation (1941-1945) were convicted late in World War II and after the war, mostly during 1945–1946 or later in the 1940s and 1950s. Political lawsuits about crimes against Jews were filed in early 1960s-1970s (for example, against members of 18th and 20th German Police Battalions). Fonds also includes documents about the second Soviet occupation of Latvia (1944–1990), repressed members of national resistance movement, dissidents and other persons who had committed “political crimes” against the Soviet state.]]></p>
    </scopecontent>
    <arrangement encodinganalog="3.3.4">
      <p><![CDATA[Cases of fonds have no descriptions: inventories from Latvian SSR CSS Registration journals of criminal records and alphabetical card index are used. Numeration has been developed in increasingly chronological order based on dates of registration in Latvian SSR CSS Archive.]]></p>
    </arrangement>
    <bibliography encodinganalog="3.5.4">
      <p><![CDATA[Ezergailis, Andrievs, 1930 -: 
The holocaust in Latvia 1941 - 1944: the missing center / by Andrew Ezergailis.
 Riga : History Institute of Latvia ; Washington, DC : US Holocaust Memorial Museum, c1996.
xxi, 465 lpp. : il., diagr., kartes, sh., tab. ; 25 cm.
ISBN: 9984905438
Ezergailis, Andrievs, 1930-: 
Nazi / Soviet disinformation about the Holocaust in Nazi-occupied Latvia: Daugavas Vanagi - who are they? [E. Avotiņš, J. Dzirkalis, V. Pētersons] - Revisited /
A. Ezergailis. Rīga : Latvijas 50 gadu okupācijas muzeja fonds, 2005.
xxiii, 215 lpp. : il. ; 24 cm.
ISBN: 9984961362
The German occupation of Latvia, 1941-1945: what did America know?: Stockholm documents / editor: Andrew Ezergailis ; the Commission of the Historians of Latvia, the Historical Institute of Latvia of the University of Latvia.
 Rīga : Historical Institute of Latvia Publ., 2007.
xx, 506 lpp. ; 25 cm.
ISBN: 9984601056]]></p>
    </bibliography>
    <altformavail encodinganalog="3.5.2">
      <p><![CDATA[Some copies are in USHMM: http://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn506414]]></p>
    </altformavail>
    <originalsloc encodinganalog="3.5.1">
      <p><![CDATA[Original documents are in custody of The National Archives of Latvia The State Archives of Latvia ]]></p>
    </originalsloc>
    <bioghist encodinganalog="3.2.2">
      <p><![CDATA[The Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic (LSSR) People’s Commissariat of State Security (PCSS; Russian: NKGB) was established on 31 March 1941 by the separation of the LSSR People’s Commissariat of Interior (PCI; Russian: NKVD). PCSS was a republic-wide institution accountable to the USSR’s NKGB; its main task was state security interests. During the period of Nazi Germany occupation of Latvia, the PCSS was evacuated and worked in the unoccupied USSR. On 24 March 1946 PCSS was reorganized as the LSSR Ministry of State Security (MSS). On 13 April 1953 the Latvian SSR MSS was united with the Latvian SSR Ministry of Interior (MI), and the Ministry of Interior ( MI) was established. On 10 April 1954 the Latvian SSR Committee for State Security (CSS; Russian: Komitet gosudarstvennoy bezopasnosti (KGB)) was established, which was attached to the Latvian SSR Council of Ministers (CM). CSS was republic-wide institution accountable to the USSR. On 7 September 1978 the Latvian SSR CM CSS changed its name to the Latvian SSR CSS. The Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic Committee for State Security was terminated according to the decision of the Republic of Latvia Supreme Council of 24 August 1991, “On the Termination of Activities of the USSR State security institutions in the Republic of Latvia”.]]></p>
    </bioghist>
    <accessrestrict encodinganalog="3.4.1">
      <p><![CDATA[The Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Latvia Regulations Nr. 151 (June 13, 1995) ''Regulations about using order of LSSR CSS documents from The Totalitarian Consequences Documentation Centre''; ''Protection law of physical person data'' (2000); ''Law of Archives'' (2010).]]></p>
    </accessrestrict>
    <userestrict encodinganalog="3.4.2">
      <p><![CDATA[''Protection law of physical person data ( 2000), (Sensitive data: Personal data which indicates someone’s race, ethnic ancestry, religious, philosophical, or political convictions, membership in labour unions, or information about health and sexual life of person).]]></p>
    </userestrict>
    <otherfindaid encodinganalog="3.4.5">
      <p><![CDATA[For internal use - Registration journals of fonds cases and alphabetic card index]]></p>
    </otherfindaid>
    <accruals encodinganalog="3.3.3">
      <p><![CDATA[Further accruals are expected. Since this fonds is deposited in SAL, records of the fonds are supplemented with documents about deaths in GULAG camps, burials and rehabilitation of politically repressed persons which haven been received from the Russian Federation and other former Soviet republics.]]></p>
    </accruals>
    <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
      <p><![CDATA[This fonds is a part of a large collection of documents of the previous Latvian SSR KGB archive, which has been transferred to the National Archives of Latvia, Latvian State Archives.]]></p>
    </acqinfo>
    <appraisal encodinganalog="3.3.2">
      <p><![CDATA[These are permanent records at disposal of authorities, according to special ancestry, secret status, uniqueness of documents.]]></p>
    </appraisal>
    <custodhist encodinganalog="3.2.3">
      <p><![CDATA[There is no proof evidence that Latvian SSR PCI / PCSS (Russian: NKVD/NKGB) archives existed during 1940–1941. When war between the USSR and Nazi Germany began, the criminal records created in the period 1940–1941 were evacuated to inner regions of the USSR (including records about people who had been apprehended in mass arrests and deported). After World War II, and mostly after 1956, a major part of the criminal records were sent from administration archives of the USSR Republics, regions and districts. Since 1947 CSS (Russian: KGB) criminal records were delivered to the archive from Investigation Office of Latvian SSR Ministry of State Security, regional Offices of Latvian SSR Committee for State Security, Office for Fight against Banditry of LSSR Ministry of Interior, Baltic Military District, USSR Military Districts, Railway Office and accorded structures of Latvian SSR Ministry of State Security. Information delivered to CSS (Russian: KGB) Archive included criminal records of people who had been politically judged; these records were delivered from various USSR War Tribunals, Special Council of the PCI (Russian: Osoboye Soveshchaniye pri NKVD), the counter- intelligence agency SMERSH and from various other courts and institutions of investigation. In subsequent years criminal records of politically judged were collected in Latvian SSR CSS (Russian: KGB) Archive; these records applied to territory of Latvian SSR and its residents, according to legislation of USSR. After termination of Latvian SSR CSS (Russian: KGB) in August 1991, the collection of Latvian SSR CSS criminal records were taken by the Office of the Prosecutor General. On May 31, 1996 the Office of the Prosecutor General delivered the Latvian SSR CSS (Russian: KGB) collection of criminal records to the State Archive of Latvia. On August 6, 1992 a part of the criminal records were transferred from Russia’s CSS (Russian: KGB) Archive of Ulyanovsk District to the State Archive of Latvia.]]></p>
    </custodhist>
    <phystech encodinganalog="3.4.4">
      <p><![CDATA[Physical condition of documents is satisfactory. Some documents are difficult to read because of text decay.]]></p>
    </phystech>
    <odd encodinganalog="3.6.1">
      <p><![CDATA[Registration books include the following information: person’s name, surname, father’s name, date of birth, recordkeeping time, number of criminal case. Card index includes following information: person’s name, surname, father’s name, date of birth, place, address, nationality, recordkeeping time, number of criminal case, time in prison, Gulag camp, place of deportation, other marks.]]></p>
    </odd>
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      <p>
        <date><![CDATA[2014-04-01 - 2014-06-30]]></date>
      </p>
    </processinfo>
    <controlaccess>
      <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="1218">War criminals</subject>
      <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="642">Persecution of Jews</subject>
      <subject>crimes against humanity</subject>
    </controlaccess>
    <controlaccess>
      <geogname>Latvia </geogname>
    </controlaccess>
  </archdesc>
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