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Country: Lithuania

  1. Vilniaus apygardos teismo prokuroras

    • Staatsanwalt beim Bezirksgericht Wilna
    • Prosecutor of Vilnius District Court

    Personal files (Jewish names included) of citizens who have committed crimes or have been suspected in committment of crime (photo of arrested person is included). The files consist of personal information as well as information of the members of the family.

  2. Vilniaus miesto policijos vakarinės apylinkės vadas

    • Stadtpolizei Wilna Abschnittsführer West
    • Chief of the Western District of the Vilnius City Police

    Reports, orders and correspondence of the Chief of Police; information concerning arrests of residents and investigations on arrests; information regarding Soviet prisoners of war and escaped prisoners.

  3. Lietuvių savisaugos dalių štabai

    • Kommandod der Litauischen Selbstschutzeinheiten
    • Lithuanian Self-Defence Battalions

    Documentation on activities of Lithunian self-defence battalions, lists of soldiers of the battalions (personal data and personal photos included).

  4. Lazdijų apskrities viršininkas

    • Der Kreis-chef des Kreises Lasdien
    • Chief of Lazdijai District

    The fonds consist of documents of local collaborator' institutions and Nazi authorities, including: various kind of reports, orders, circulars, correspondence, register books of residents, lists of arrested people, lists of Soviet war prisoners, and lists of confiscated Jewish property (with names of owners). There are also documents concerning establishment of the ghetto in Lazdijai and about anti-Jewish moods amongst local residents.

  5. 1940 -1941 m. rinkimų dokumentų kolekcija

    • The Collection of the Election Documents (1940-1941)

    Lists of the electors (with many Jewish names) from many districts of Lithuania on December 1940-January 1941; statistics on the electors by nationality.

  6. Šiaulių apskrities valsčių savivaldybės

    • The Municipalities of Šiauliai Local Rural Districts

    Documents of activities of Gaščiūnai, Joniškis, Klovainiai, Lygumai, Linkuva, Pakruojis, Radviliškis, Stačiūnai, Šiaulėnai local rural districts municipalities (various correspondence, reports, notes, registers, letters, announcements, restrictions, applications of residensts and permissions issued by the authorities; documentation concerning private property, business, taxes, issuing of passports; also documentation concerning confiscation of the Jewish property (lists of belongings, lists of owners, documents on evaluation of belongings, register of local residents have bought Jewish prop...

  7. Kaunas Major Military Construction Office Number 13

    • Kauno 13-oji didžioji kariuomenės statybos įstaiga
    • Grosse Heeresbaudienststelle 13 Kauen

    Kaunas Major Military Construction Office Number 13 supervised construction of military facilities. Correspondence regarding control of the Jewish workers (based on LCVA).

  8. Kauno apskrities viršininkas

    • Der Kreischef in Kauen
    • Chief of the District of the City of Kaunas

    Circulars and announcements by Nazi authorities, including announcements from the Kaunas administrative region commissar SA Oberfurer A. Lentzen concerning the limiting of the activities of local Jews 4/8/1941; order by the Kaunas administrative region commissar sent to the head of the county to bring together all Jews in order to establish their number 22/8/1941. Circulars and announcements from local administration, including circular from the head of the Kaunas county sent to all heads of rural districts and police chiefs concerning establishment of the Kaunas ghetto 15/8/1941; orders gi...

  9. Tauragės apskrities viršininkas

    • Der Kreischef in Tauroggen
    • Chief of Tauragė County

    "The collections of the heads of the counties contain important documents concerning the Holocaust in the Lithuanian provinces" (Galina Žirikova, Lietuvos centrinio valstybės archyvo fondai: holokausto Lietuvoje tyrimo šaltinis (The Collections of the State Archive of Lithuania: a Source of Research on the Holocaust in Lithuania), Vilnius: Valstybinis Vilniaus Gaono Žydų Muziejus, p. 12. The fonds contains the documents on the confiscation of the Jewish property, also there are lists of the war prisoners, correspondence on food supplying, documentation about taking local people for the...

  10. Alytaus apskrities viršininkas

    • Der Kreischef Kreis Alytus
    • Chief of Alytus District

    "The collections of the heads of the counties contain important documents concerning the Holocaust in the Lithuanian provinces" (Galina Žirikova, Lietuvos centrinio valstybės archyvo fondai: holokausto Lietuvoje tyrimo šaltinis (The Collections of the State Archive of Lithuania: a Source of Research on the Holocaust in Lithuania), Vilnius: Valstybinis Vilniaus Gaono Žydų Muziejus, p. 12). The fonds of the chief of the Alytus district contains the documents of the expropriation of the property of Jews. There are also lists of the former Jewish owners of the property; lists of single ite...

  11. Laikraščio ,,Panevėžio apygardos balsas“ redakcija

    • Editors of the Newspaper "Panevėžio apygardos balsas" (English: The Voice of Panevėžys County)

    Propaganda of Lithuanians nationalists; programme of the Lithuanian Activist Front (with some antisemitic paragraphs); various announcements and reports of the Nazi authorities, proclamations, drafts of nationalist articles, etc.

  12. Saugumo policijos ir SD vado Lietuvoje Lietuviškojo skyriaus Kriminalinės policijos viršininkas

    • Der Kommandeur der Sicherheitspolizei und des SD Litauen Litauische Abteilung Der Leiter der Kriminalpolizei
    • Chief of of the Criminal Police of the Lithuanian Section of the Security Police and SD in Kaunas

    Reports, orders, documentations of the chief of the Criminal Police about accidents and investigations in the county; reports from the police precincts about accidents, about the mood of the locals; correspondence about wanted persons, about prisoners who had managed to escape, about prisoners of war, about how to deal with Roma residents; reports about confiscations of private property.

  13. Mikrofilmų, gautų iš TSRS valstybinių archyvų, kolekcija

    • Collection of Microfilms Received From the USSR State Archives

    The fonds consists of documents, reports, lists, and various kinds of materials concerning annihilation of local residents (mostly Jews) in all of Lithuania.

  14. Lietuvos pasiuntinybė Vašingtone

    • Lithuanian Embassy in Washington, DC

    Documents of the Federation of Jews in the United States; Lithuanian Embassy in Washington correcpondence with Lithuanian diplomats about the situation of Jews in the USSR and in the years of Nazi occupation; documents concerning relations between Jews and Lithuanians, mass killings of Jews, people accused in participation in mass killings; publications of Jewish organizations.

  15. Lietuvos pasiuntinybė Londone

    • Lithuanian Embassy in London

    There is correspondence with Polish Jews Federation about mass killings of Jews in Lithuania (1942-1943), short biography of Ona Šimaitė who rescued Jews in the years of the war; documents concerning antisemitic attitude of locals towards Jewish intelligentsia and cultural institutions.

  16. Kazys Škirpa

    • Kazys Škripa, Ambassador of Independent Lithuania in Germany, 1942

    The fond consists of the collection of personal documents (see also UHSMM collection description). The most important document in this fonds is the anti-Jewish proclamation of the Front of Lithuanian Activists (LAF; col. Kazys Škirpa was a leader of this Front). The LAF organized the June Uprising (June 23-26, 1941) with the aim of re-establishing Lithuanian independence with the help of Nazis. The members of this Uprising were fighting against communists and Jews and participated in pogroms throughout Lithuania. Excerpts from the third part of the memoir book of Kazys Škirpa, "Kovok! Pasta...

  17. Vokiečių policijos įstaigos

    • Der Kommandeur der Ordnungspolizei beim SS- und Polizeiführer in Litauen
    • German Police Institutions

    Documents concerning activities of the police battalions; various administrative documents, correspondence, reports and circulars; lists of staff members and soldiers, etc.

  18. Josifas Šapiro

    The personal fonds of a famous Jewish collector of ex libris bookplates who was able in the first days of the Second World War to escape to the East of the Soviet Union. After the war he returned to Vilnius. His collection was close related not only to Jewish topics but also to Lithuanian history, culture, and famous people. The files consist of personal documentation, correspondence, photos.

  19. Icchokas Meras

    The personal fonds of a famous Jewish writer who was hidden and adopted by a Lithuanian peasant family and survived the war. The files of the fonds consist of drafts with the author's corrections, translations of his novels into Russian, screenplays for films, personal documents, correspondence, photos. His novels are natural and precise, and are based on personal experiences and the tragic experiences of Lithuanian Jews in the Holocaust.

  20. Abelis Klenickis

    Personal fonds of the activities of the famous Lithuanian composer, conductor, violinist (includes drafts of music pieces, scores of music, songs, photos, personal documents, etc.).