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Country: Latvia

  1. Tirdzniecības un rūpniecības akciju sabiedrība "Kūdra"

    • Trade and Industry Joint Stock Company "Peat"
    • Torfwerk Kudra

    The fonds contains information about the work of pit factories throughout Latvia. The wartime documents include lists of ghetto inmates with dates of birth working at the Torfwerks throughout Latvia (Aizpute, Garoza, Misa, Sloka-Kemeri, Priedasine, Olaine, Salaspils, Skrunda, Smārde, Kukas, Ploce); rules about treatment of Jews at work; increasing of working capacity by providing of additional food rate; and a list of Jews from Priedaine Torfwerk who were sent back to the Riga ghetto on October 28, 1943.

  2. Tirdzniecības un rūpniecības galvenā direkcija

    • Directorate General of Trade and Industry

    Lists of nationalized Jewish property and enterprises; confiscation of trading enterprises in Riga, Bauska, Daugavpils, Jelgava, Karsava, Koknese, Vaiņode, and Viesite (1941-1943).

  3. Tukuma apriņķa vecākais

    • Kreisleiter Tukums

    The fonds contains information about the district administration since 1919. The wartime documents include regulations to wear the Star of David, lists of Jewish property, applications to allocate former Jewish property and belongings (1941-1943).

  4. Tukuma-Talsu apriņķa policijas iestādes

    • Tukums-Talsi District Police Institutions
    • Polizeibehörden des Kreises Tukums-Talsen

    The fonds contains extensive information about activities of the Police institutions in the district since 1919. The wartime documents include information about the Jewish property and the acquisition and registration of Jewish belongings; confiscation of Jewish books; hiding of Jews; Jews who escaped from Kaltene camp (August 1941) and from the Salaspils pit factory; Jews and Poles who escaped from Częstochowa prison; list of Jews in Talsen; manhunting of Roma; Roma living in Kandava (1942); Russian prisoners of war who escaped from Grobina camp; and a list of prisoners of war.

  5. Vācijas bruņoto spēku pavēlnieks Austrumzemē

    • Wehrmachtsbefehlshaber im Ostland
    • Wehrmacht Commander in Ostland

    Jewish property, including information about confiscations; printed forms to inventory Jewish property; lists of names and addresses of Jewish houses taken by the Wehrmacht, which contain information about furniture and house goods; copies of order of the Wehrmacht-Ortskommandantur Riga for the confiscation of property; eviction of Jews from their apartments. Use of Jews in forced labour, including information about work conditions, whether to consider them as war prisoners, guarding and separating them from general population, payment for work; regulations of transfer of Jews from and into...

  6. Vācu kinožurnāli, Rullis Nr. 12

    • “Reel” (“Rullis”) Nr. 12 (director unknown); motion pictures from the German occupation period

    A few shots: A group of Jewish workers is assigned to clear the rubble of a ruined building in Riga (July, 1941).

  7. Valmieras apriņķa policijas iestādes

    • Valmiera District Police Institutions
    • Polizeibehörden Kreis Wolmar

    The fonds contains information about the activities of the police administration in the district since 1919. The war time files contain lists of nationalized and ownerless Jewish property (1942).

  8. Valmieras pilsētas komandantūra

    • Valmiera City Commandant's Office
    • Stadtkommandantur Wolmar

    Checking for Jewish apartments; arrests of Jews. July 1941.

  9. Valsts slepenpolicijas pārvalde Gestapo

    • Secret State Police Office (Gestapo)
    • Geheime Staatspolizei - Gestapo Amt

    The fonds contains information collected since 1924, including information about the German secret police; German diplomatic mission reports, including reports on the activities of the Communist Party; Latvian political administration official staff lists; outgoing correspondence from the Baltic states to Germany; snippets from Latvian newspapers and newspapers from other European countries;; information about migrants (Übersiedler) from Baltic states in 1941, including names of agents and persons involved.

  10. Ventspils apriņķa policijas iestādes

    • Ventspils District Police Institutions
    • Polizeibehörden Kreis Windau

    The fonds contains a large amount of information about activities of the police institution in the district since 1920. The wartime documents include information about Jewish property, (October 1941), arrests of escaped Jews and transferring them to the Ventspils security police, deserters from SS Legion, (July 1944), arrests of Roma (1944), list of Russians in the district (1945).