Partisan activity in Lithuania

Identifier
irn509683
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2002.6
  • RG-26.003M
Dates
1 Jan 1943 - 31 Dec 1946
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Lithuanian
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn509683

Extent and Medium

15 microfilm reels, 35 mm

Archival History

Lietuvas Ypatingasis Archyvas

Acquisition

Forms part of the Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. This archive consists of documentation whose reproduction and/or acquisition was made possible with funding from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.

Source of acquisition is the Lietuvas Ypatingasis Archyvas (Lithuanian Special Archives). The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the filmed collection via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum International Project Division in Jan. 2002.

Scope and Content

The collection includes memoirs, personal files of Jewish and non-Jewish partisans in various detachments of the partisan effort, and reports by Soviet Army soldiers and Lithuanian-Soviet activists regarding the early war between Germany and the Soviet Union. Also included are records of Lithuanian citizens seeking to enlist in the Lithuanian division of the Red Army.

System of Arrangement

Organized in the following order: Reel 1; fond 11, opis 1-81. Reel 2; fond 10, opis 1-80. Reel 3; fond 13, opis 1-44. Reel 4; fond 16, opis 1-68. Reel 5; fond 21, opis 1-12. Reel 6; fond 24, opis 1-54. Reel 7; fond 24, opis 55-125. Reel 8; fond 30, opis 1-9. Reel 9; fond 32, opis 1. Reel 10; fond 57, opis 1. Reel 11; fond 61, opis 1. Reel 12; fond 15408, opis 1. Reel 13; fond 15409, opis 1-58. Reel 14; fond 1, opis 1. Reel 15; fond 1771, opis 5, file 130 and 203 Arrangement is thematic

Subjects

  • Lithuania--Social conditions--1918-1945.
  • Lithuania--History--German occupation, 1941-1944.
  • Lithuania--Politics and government--1918-1945.
  • Insurgency--Lithuania.
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Lithuania.
  • Guerrilla warfare--Lithuania.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Lithuania.

Genre

This description is derived directly from structured data provided to EHRI by a partner institution. This collection holding institution considers this description as an accurate reflection of the archival holdings to which it refers at the moment of data transfer.

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