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Country: Lithuania

  1. Iš Vokietijos gautų dokumentų kolekcija

    • Captured German Records Returned by the USSR to Lithuania in 1953

    Includes: Polizeipraesident zu Berlin, Polizeidirektion Tilsit, SS Totenkofp Sturmbahn Konzentrationslager Lublin, SS und Polizei fuehrer Ausbildungslager Travniki, RSHA Gestapo Berlin, Heeresgruppenkommando I, Gestapo Stapostelle Zichenau, etc. USHMM: "Information collected by the German security services regarding the local population, the Red Army, Communists, anti-German movements in the Baltic, and "deserters" [Lithuanian Central State Archives, Fonds 1173/1, 2, 4, and 7; 2000." Files of: prisoners of war, prisoners and guards of concentration camps, policemen of the Lithuanian Auxilia...

  2. Kauno miesto žydų tikybinės bendruomenės taryba

    • Council of the Jewish Religious Community of Kaunas

    This collection consists of records of the Council of the Kaunas Jewish community in Lithuania. It reflects different aspects of the activities of the Jewish community of Kaunas during the interwar period and the beginning of the Second World War. Items include correspondence between the Jewish communities of the district; metrics and registration books of the Jewish communities of Gargždai, Ylakiai, Jurbarkas, Kėdainiai, Kybartai, Krekenava, and Plungė; documentation concerning education, social welfare, charity, financial activities, protocols of meetings of the community members, documen...

  3. Vilniaus žydų tikybinė bendruomenė

    • Gmina Wyznaniowa Żydowska w Wilnie
    • Vilnius Jewish Religious Community

    Various documents concerning activities of the community; documentation of the Board of the community, including correspondence, meeting protocols, and related documents; lists of community members; certificates of birth, marriage, and death; certificates of war refugees; permissions issued by the community to bury in the Jewish cemetery; financial documents, etc.

  4. Panevėžio apskrities valsčių savivaldybės

    • Municipalities of the Small Rural Districts of the Panevėžys County

    Documentation, reports, orders and announcements of the chiefs of the small rural districts of Kupiškis, Miežiškiai, Naujamiestis, Panevėžys, Piniava, Pumpėnai, Rozalimas, Šeduva, Šimonys, and Troškūnai. Information includes administrative documents, applications of residents to obtain passports, reports about everyday life in the county, statistics about residents, correspondence, etc. There are also reports and decrees by the general advisor for internal affairs for municipalities of the small rural districts of Panevėžys County concerning attitudes toward local residents and attitudes to...

  5. Panevėžio miesto savivaldybė

    • Municipality of the City of Panevėžys

    The fonds consist of the personal documents (applications of residents to obtain passports); documents about the activities of the municipality (lists of businesses, schools, shops, etc. with information about the owners and lists of teachers, doctors, traders, shopkeepers, etc.); documents about attitudes toward Jews from summer–late autumn 1941 (lists of arrested Jews, documents about confiscation of private property, etc.).

  6. Kauno IX forto muziejus

    • Kaunas Ninth Fort Museum

    Some files of the fonds contain documents concerning how the museum collections were compiled (documents and register lists of the artifacts and personal belongings of people who were imprisoned in the Ninth Fort and who donated these items to the museum; documents and register lists of the items that were purchased from the locals.

  7. Grigorijus Kanovičius

    The fonds of the activities and writings of the famous Jewish writer Grigorijus Kanovičius, who, age twelve, was able to escape to the East in the first days of the Second World war and thereby survived the Holocaust. In 1945 he returned to Vilnius; he graduated from Vilnius University and in 1959 published his first novel. His novels and short stories depict life in the shtetls before the war and how life changed later, and how the Jewish communities were destroyed. The files of this personal fonds consist of drafts, fragments of novels, correspondence, personal photos, photos from events ...

  8. Viktoras Golovčineris

    Personal fonds of the activities of the Russian theatre director Viktoras Golovčineris (1955-1962), who was able to survive the Holocaust in the East of the Soviet Union. The files consist of various performances programs, photos, posters, sketches of sceneries, drafts, correspondence, letters to his wife E. Gercberg, personal documents, video material, etc. .

  9. Ilja Rud-Gercovskis

    The personal fonds of the well-known screen and scriptwriter, and actor. In the first days of the Second World War he was able to escape to the East of the Soviet Union. He survived the Holocaust and after the war returned to Vilnius. The files of his personal fonds include drafts, scripts, personal documentation, and photos.

  10. Marijampolės apskrities ir valsčių savivaldybės

    • Municipalities of the Small Rural Districts of Marijampolė County

    Files from the municipalities of 22 small rural districts of Marijampolė County. Lists of the residents (includes many Jewish names) of the district, lists of nationalized Jewish property, correspondence concerning the labour of war prisoners, list of the Marijampolė Judenrat, correspondence concerning food supply and Jewish property, lists of arrested Jews, lists of Jewish property and lists of local residents who have bought Jewish belongings and property (October 1941).

  11. 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...

  12. Hitlerininkų piktadarybėms tirti respublikinės komisijos aktai

    • Documents of the State Commissions for Investigation of Nazi Crimes

    The fonds consists of the documents of the Extraordinary Commission on the crimes of the Nazis and local collaborators. Files include information about crimes in almost every region of Lithuania (except Jurbarkas, Švenčionėliai, Varėna, and Vilkaviškis). Other items inlude documents compiled by the Vilnius, Kaunas, Šiauliai, Panevėžys towns' and districts' commissions about the crimes, testimonies of witnesses, testimonies about the camp for evacuated people in Alytus; testimonies about people killed or deported to do forced labour in the Germany; various kinds of the documentation regardin...

  13. Šiaulių apskrities valsčių savivaldybės

    • Municipalities of the Local Rural District of Šiauliai

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

  14. Dokumentų kopijų kolekcija

    • Collection of Document Copies
    • Lietuvos Centrinis Valstybės Archyvas
    • F. 1742
    • English, Lithuanian
    • 1916-1947
    • 2 subfonds and 47 files. Parts of the documents are handwritten. Some files are microfilmed and some consist of photographs, maps, drawings.

    USHMM: "material on resistance and rescue in Lithuania". Copies of documents concerning the annihilation of Jews in town of Vilnius and region, Nazi propaganda, anti-Nazi movement, position of the Catholic Church during WWII; documentation and correspondence between embassies (interwar period); copies of agreements between USSR and Germany; documentation regarding diplomatic relations; copies (microfilmed) of the monographs and studies by M. Jaloveckis "Lenkijos sodybos. Kaimo sodybų architektūra ir statiniai" ("Dwor Polski. Architekci į budowniczowie siedzib wiejskich") and "Lenkijos Respu...

  15. Jurbarko miesto savivaldybė

    • Municipality of Jurbarkas City

    Circulars prohibiting Jews from trading; reports regarding prohibition of issuing documents to Jews; punishment for locals who hid Jews; correspondence regarding Jewish property. Lists of Jewish landowners (with family names); documentation about Jewish property. Certificates for those who were given Jewish property. Various kind of reports, including about number of Jews in Jurbarkas, obligation to wear Star of David, etc.

  16. 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.).

  17. 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.

  18. ELTA informacija. Bolševikų bėgimas iš Ukmergės

    • Information from news agency ELTA (Electronic Lithuanian Telegrams Agency). Escape of the Bolsheviks from Ukmergė

    Correspondence, notes, writings send to ELTA (Electronic Lithuanian Telegrams Agency) about the first days of WWII in Ukmergė, including information about people (most of whom were Jews) arrested by local activists.

  19. ELTA informacija. Buržuazinių nacionalistų kovos veiksmų aprašymas traukiantis Raudonajai armijai Vilniuje ir Trakuose

    • Information from News Agency ELTA (Electronic Lithuanian Telegrams Agency). Descriptions of the Fighting Between the Red Army and Local Nationalists in the First Days of Second World War (When the Red Army Was Retreating) in Vilnius and Trakai

    Information about activities (including correspondence, notes, letters, writings) of units of the white arm-banded local partisans who were fighting against communists and Jews.

  20. 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.