Selected records from the Panevėžys Branch County Archives in Lithuania related to restitution of Jewish property
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Archival History
Panevėžio apskrities archyvas
Acquisition
Source of acquisition is the Panevėžio apskrities archyvas (Panevėžio County Archives). The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum received the filmed collection via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum International Archival Programs Division in February 2017 and accretion in May 2018. This is a joint project of the USHMM and Yad Vashem.
Scope and Content
Records of various county agencies (State Notary, County Executive Council, People's Court, etc.) related to the restitution and inheritance of the individual and communal Jewish property located in the Panevėžys County, Lithuania after World War II.
System of Arrangement
Arranged in seventeen groups: 1. Council of People's Deputies of Panevėžys: Registers of nationalized buildings, 1944-1947; 2. Cases on the return of property: Files of individual cases; 3. Municipal Economy Department, Council of Deputies of the Working People of the Panevėžys region: Acts of nationalization of houses in particular villages; Inventory of houses; Book of registration of purchase and sale and inheritance of houses, 1940-1952; 4. The People's Court-Rokiškis: Files of individual cases, 1947; 5. Council of Deputies of the Working People of the Panevėžys region: Churches and prayer houses, 1944; 6. State Notary Office of Biržai district: Individual cases on the inheritance of property, 1945-1948; 7. State Notary Office of Panevėžys region: Individual cases on the inheritance of property, 1945-1947; 8. The People's Court of the city Panevėžys: Civil cases (for issuing a certificate of death, establishing the fact of kinship and inheritance of property), 1945-1946; 9. The People's Court of the region Panevėžys: Civil cases (for issuing a certificate of death, establishing the fact of kinship and inheritance of property), 1945-1947; 10. State Notary Office of the city Panevėžys: Individual cases on the inheritance of property, 1951-1952; 11. Executive Committee of the Council of People's Deputies of the city of Biržai: Minutes of the Executive Committee of the Council of People's Deputies of the city of Biržai, 1948; 12. District People's Court of the city Pasvalys: Civil cases for issuing a certificate of death, establishing the fact of kinship and inheritance of property, 1945-1947; 13. District People's Court of the city Biržai: Civil cases for issuing a certificate of death, establishing the fact of kinship and inheritance of property, 1945-1948; 14. District People's Court of the region Ramygala, 1947; 15. Department of Communal Services of the Executive Committee of the Council of People's Deputies of the region Biržai: Acts of nationalization and inventory of residential and prayer houses; Civil cases for issuing a certificate of death, establishing the fact of kinship and inheritance of property, 1945-1948; 16. State Notary office-Rokiškis: Cases on the inheritance of property, 1945-1950; 17. Department of Communal Services of the Executive Committee of the Council of People's Deputies of the city Panevėžys, 1966: Documents of the liquidation of the Jewish cemetery along the R. Chyarno street of Panevėžys.
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Copyright Holder: Panevėžio apskrities archyvas
Subjects
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Lithuania.
- Subačius (Lithuania)
- Jews--Lithuania--Panevėžys--Claims.
- World War, 1939-1945--Destruction and pillage--Lithuania.
- Jewish property--Lithuania--History--20th century.
- Šimonys (Lithuania)
- Pasvalys (Lithuania)
- Panevėžys (Lithuania)
- Ramygala (Lithuania)
- Panevėžio apskritis (Lithuania)
- Jews--Legal status, laws, etc.--Lithuania--Panevėžys--History--20th century.
- Viešintos (Lithuania)
- Rokiškis (Lithuania)
- Biržai (Lithuania)
- World War,1939 -1945--Confiscations and contributions--Lithuania.
- Naujamiestis (Lithuania)
- Kupiškis (Lithuania)
Genre
- Minutes.
- Death certificates.
- Registers.
- Claims.
- Document