Selected records from Tauragė County Branch Archives in Lithuania related to restitution of the Jewish property after WWII

Identifier
irn557794
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2017.25.1
  • RG-26.064
Dates
1 Jan 1944 - 31 Dec 1960
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Lithuanian
  • Russian
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn557794

Extent and Medium

12,969 digital images, JPEG

Archival History

Tauragės apskrities archyvas

Acquisition

Source of acquisition is the Tauragės apskrities archyvas (Taurage County Archives), Lithuania. 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 USHMM and Yad Vashem.

Scope and Content

Records of the various county agencies (the State Notary Office, County Executive Council, People's Court, etc., related to the restitution and inheritance of the individual and communal Jewish property located in Tauragė County, and civil criminal cases of the Peoples Court of Tauragė and Jurbarkas districts in Lithuania after World War II.

System of Arrangement

Arranged chronologically in nine series: Registers of population and properties of the city Tauragės, 1921-1936; 2. Records of the Tauragės district Executive Committee of the Council of People’s Deputies, 1944-1947; 3. Records of the State Tauragė district, State Notary Office, 1946-1947; 4. Peoples Court of Tauragė district: Individual files of civil criminal cases, 1945; 5. Peoples Court of Tauragė district: Civil criminal cases, 1946; 6. Peoples Court of Tauragė district: Civil criminal cases, 1947. 7. Peoples Court of Jurbarkas district: Civil criminal cases, 1945; 8. Peoples Court of Jurbarkas district: Civil criminal cases, 1946; 9. Peoples Court of Jurbarkas district: Civil matters, 1947. Note: Digital files organized in numerical order of Fond.

Conditions Governing Reproduction

Copyright Holder: Tauragės apskrities archyvas

Subjects

  • Jews--Legal status, laws, etc.--Lithuania--Jurbarkas--History--20th century.
  • Tauragės apskritis (Lithuania)--Statistics.
  • Jewish property--Lithuania--Tauragės apskritis--History--20th century.
  • Jurbarkas (Lithuania)
  • Jews--Legal status, laws, etc.--Lithuania--Tauragė--History--20th century.
  • Jews--Lithuania--Tauragės apskritis--Claims.
  • World War,1939 -1945--Confiscations and contributions--Lithuania.
  • Tauragė (Lithuania)
  • Holocaust, Jewish (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.