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Selected records from the Central State Archives of Lithuania (Fond R-973/1-3 and Fond R-1390)

Document | Digitized | Accession Number: 1998.A.0073 | RG Number: RG-26.014M

Overview

Description: Contains selected records of Fond R-973 (Jewish ghetto police in Kaunas, reels 1–51), including police daily reports, statistics, correspondence, investigations and the ghetto court cases relating to events in Kaunas ghetto, including activities of armed Lithuanian “partisans." Includes registration books of investigation cases, listing and personal files of ghetto police, various police officer lists, lists of deportees, hospital records, the Kaunas ghetto-plan with marked houses, and Josef Schlesinger drawings. Contains also selected records collected by the Vilnius Jewish Museum, Fond R-1390 (reels 52-65), with various documents of Lithuanian ghettos, concentration camps in Europe, Russian and Polish publications, diaries, songs, poems and photographs relating to WWII.
Date: inclusive: 1941-1948
Credit Line: Forms part of the Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. This archive consists of documentation whose reproduction and/or acquisition was made possible with funding from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.

Physical Details

Language: Lithuanian Yiddish German Polish Russian
Genre/Form: Reports. Correspondence. Registers. Photographs. Diaries. Songs. Poems. Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.)
Extent: 55,995 digital images : JPEG ; 142 GB.
65 microfilm reels (digitized) ; 35 mm.
System of Arrangement: Arranged in two series: 1. Fond R-973, Jewish ghetto police in Kaunas(Kovno)-Vilijampole, 1941-1944; 2. Fond R-1390, Vilnius Jewish Museum records, 1941-1948

Rights & Restrictions

Conditions on Access: This material can only be accessed in a Museum reading room or other on-campus viewing stations. No other access restrictions apply to this material.
Conditions on Use: Reproduction and publication of documents require permission of the Lithuanian Central State Archives.
Copyright Holder: Lietuvos centrinis valstybės archyvas

Keywords & Subjects

Topical Term: Jewish ghettos--Lithuania--Kaunas. Police--Lithuania--Kaunas--Registers. Concentration camps--Lithuania. Concentration camps--Poland. Concentration camps--Germany.
Geographic Name: Lithuania--History--1918-1945. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Lithuania.

Administrative Notes

Holder of Originals: Lietuvos centrinis valstybės archyvas
Legal Status: Permanent Collection
Provenance: Source of acquisition is the Lietuvos centrinis valstybės archyvas (Lithuanian Central State Archives), Fonds R-973/1-3 Vilnius Jewish Ghetto Police, and Fond R-1390, Documents of the Vilnius State Museum. After the war, these records were housed in the Vilnius Jewish Museum, then transferred to the Lithuanian Central State Archives. The Museum Archives received the microfilms via the International Archival Programs Division in May, 1998.
Special Collection: Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive

Record last modified:: 2022-07-28 18:06:09
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