Selected records from Tauragė County Branch Archives in Lithuania related to restitution of the Jewish property after WWII
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
- Registers.
- Claims.
- Document
- Statistics.
- Correspondence.
- Photographs.