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  1. Žydų geto policija

    • Jüdische Ghetto Polizei
    • Jewish Ghetto Police

    This collection contains various documents covering different aspects of Jewish life in the ghetto. USHMM: "Records of the Kovno Jewish ghetto administration and police". Various kinds of documents from the Kaunas (Kovno) ghetto period, from the ghetto’s establishment on August 1941 until November 1943. Lists of prisoners, lists of arrested people, lists of prisoners sent to Ryga forced labour camps, various registration lists/books of prisoners in the ghetto, reports and orders of the chief of the ghetto police, documents concerning forced labour and Jewish workers in labour camps in Kauna...

  2. Lietuvos statistikos valdyba

    • Litauisches Statistisches Amt
    • Statistics Bureau of the Lithuanian General Region

    Documentation about conducting the population census; population census of the prisoners of the Vilnius and Šiauliai ghettos and labour camps in 1942.

  3. Saugumo policijos ir SD vado Lietuvai Lietuviškasis Kauno skyrius

    • Litauische Abteilung-Kauen des Kommandeurs der Sicherheitspolizei und des SD in Litauen
    • Chief of the SS and SD in Lithuania, Kaunas Department

    Various documents on the activities of the staff of Lithuanian SS and SD department (includes documents about collaboration with local partisans – for example: reports by the leader of the Vilijampolė partisan unit to the chief of the security department of the Kaunas administrative region about arrested Jews on June 23, 1941; list of residents (mostly Jews) arrested by partisans of Vilijampolė partisan unit), orders to the Auxiliary police, applications from residents to release relatives who were in custody. Documents and correspondence with the Lithuanians state security about attitude o...

  4. Vilniaus miesto apygardos profesinių sąjungų biuras

    • Büro der Berufsverbände Gebiet Wilna-Stadt
    • Bureau of the Trade Unions of the City of Vilnius

    Documents concerning forced labour camps; lists of Jewish workers; various documentation dealing with better organization of forced Jewish labour, etc.; registers of Jewish workers in the forced labour camps in the county.

  5. Kauno sunkiųjų darbų kalėjimas

    • Zentralgefängnis in Kauen
    • Kaunas Hard-Labour Prison

    This collection contains documents concerning the handing over of Jewish inmates and the mass killing of Jews at the Ninth Fort (the description based on Galina Žirikova (2011), 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 consists mostly of personal files of the arrested people. There are also administrative documents of the chief of the prison; lists of Jews who were arrested ...

  6. Geležinkelių policijos vadas

    • Kaunas Eisenbahnpolizei
    • Kaunas Railway Police

    Orders and reports by the chief of the railway police about police activities; personal files of police officers.

  7. Συλλογή Αλμπέρτος Ναρ

    • Collection Albertos Nar
    • Syllogi Albertos Nar

    Interviews with local Jews and Holocaust survivors for the Jewish life in Thessaloniki and Greece prewar period, during WWII and postwar period.

  8. Συλλογή Άγγελος Παπαϊωάννου

    • Collection Angelos Papaioannou
    • Syllogi Angelos Papaioannou

    The collection contains 1.200 postcards related to the history of the different ethnic and religious minorities of the city. A number of them related to the Salonican Jews.

  9. Švenčionių apskrities policijos vadas ir punktai

    • Police Commander and Police Stations of Švenčionys District

    The fonds consists of documents about confisacation of Jewish property: lists of things and personal belongings (with names of owners mentioned); reports about arrested people, prisoners of war, soviets activists; correspondence with the chiefs of the districts concerning moods of the locals.

  10. Συλλογή Πάνος Τσιφτσής

    • Collection Panos Tsiftsis
    • Syllogi Panos Tsiftsis

    A collection of 1.100 photos related to the postwar life and activities of the Jewish Community in Thessaloniki and a small collection of documents related to the local Jewish Community.

  12. Saugumo policijos ir SD vado Lietuvoje Lietuviškojo skyriaus Kriminalinės policijos Vilniaus apygarda

    • Der Kommandeur der Sicherheitspolizei und des SD in Litauen Litauische Abteilung Kriminalpolizeibezirk-Wilna
    • Chief of the Criminal Police of Vilnius County of the Security Police and SD in Lithuania

    List of arrested residents, criminal proceedings, and investigations concerning the committed crimes.

  13. Vilniaus miesto ir apskrities viršininkas

    • Der Kreischef von Wilna
    • Chief of the City and Administrative Region of Vilnius of the Lithuanian General Region

    This collection "includes documents about the establishment of ghettos in the county of Vilnius " (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, 2011, p. 12. Documents, correspondence, reports and announcements issued by local collaboration authorities concerning situation in the district and attitude toward local residents. Some files are about the establishing of the Vilnius ghe...

  14. Vilniaus apskrities policijos Naujosios Vilnios nuovada

    • Police Station in Naujoji Vilnia of the Vilnius County

    Statistics compiled by the mayor regarding the residents of Naujoji Vilnia by nationality, confidential documents concerning imprisoning of Jews in the ghettos and safeguarding their property and all precedures regarding this, orders by the chief of the Vilnius county to the chiefs of the county police stations concerning arrests of runaway Jews in hidding and taking them to Lukiškės prison.

  15. Pavienės tarnybos policijos lietuvių ryšių karininkas Tvarkos policijos vado Lietuvoje štabe

    • Der lit. Verbindungs-Offizier für die Schutzmannschaft des Einzeldienstes im Stabe des Kommandeurs der Ordnungspolizei Litauen
    • Liaison Officer of the Individual Police Service of the Lithuanian General Region under the Chief of the Ordnugspolizei in Lithuania (Kaunas)

    This collection contains "the important confidential circular No. 3 of 16 August 1941 signed by V. Reivytis, director of the Police Department, sent to the police chiefs of the counties concerning the detention, rounding up, and guarding of male Jews. Essentially, it meant the beginning of the mass extermination of the Jews in Lithuanian provinces. The same collection contains reports by the police chiefs of the counties and rural districts to the director of the Police Department concerning the detaining and rounding up of Jews." Galina Žirikova, Lietuvos centrinio valstybės archyvo fond...

  16. 814-oji karo lauko komendantūra

    • Feldkommandantur 814
    • Military Field Commander Number 814 in Vilnius

    This collection contains "the 4 July 1941 announcement by S. Žakevičius, chairperson of the Lithuanian citizens' committee of the city of Vilnius and regions concerning the obligation to wear special badges, the introduction of a ban for Jews to leave home after a definite hour and other documents restricting Jews' civil rights" (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, 2011,...

  17. Vilniaus miesto vykdomojo komiteto Sveikatos apsaugos skyrius

    • Health Executive Committee of Vilnius city

    Documents about activities of the medical institutions in Vilnius; lists of physicians and medical staff (Jewish names included).

  18. Kauno miesto apygardos komisaras

    • Kaunas-Stadt Gebietskomissar
    • County Commissar of Kaunas City

    List of applications by Germans, who came to Lithuania during 1941-1944 to obtain certain goods; alphabetical documentation of German people who applied for and received these goods; documentation concerning food supply in the country and exploitation of the prisoners of war; documentation concerning confiscation of private property; registration lists of residents; list of Nazis authorities and staff.

  19. Reichsleiterio Rosenbergo operatyvinio štabo okupuotoms sritims Darbo grupė Lietuvoje

    • Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg für die besetzten Gebiete Arbeitsgruppe Litauen
    • Vilnius Branch of the Rosenberg Operative Command of the Lithuanian General Region

    "Documents about the looting of Jewish cultural valuables in Lithuania are very scarce"(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, 2011, p. 11. Correspondence of the Rosenberg Operative Command in Lithuania concerning various questions and research, reports of the Herman Kruk working groups in the Vilnius ghetto about the activities of the collecting of the valuables, reports o...

  20. Generalinis komisaras Kaune

    • Der Generalkommissar in Kauen
    • General Commissar of the Lithuanian General Region

    The fonds consists of documents concerning confiscation and destruction of Lithuanian Jews' cultural valuables and attempts to save them in the ghetto. Items include orders, circulars, and correspondence of the Kaunas Gebietskommissar SA Hauptsturmfuehrer Jordan concerning confiscation of cultural valuables owned by Jews, communists, and Freemasons; documentation by Ostaland reichskomissar Lohse concerning the procedures for confiscating cultural valuables of political parties and organizations.