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Records of the Ministry of Jewish Affairs of the Republic of Lithuania (Fond 1129)

Document | Not Digitized | Accession Number: 2004.689 | RG Number: RG-26.005M

Overview

Description: The collection includes files of the Ministry of Jewish Affairs regarding the development and activities of Jewish communities in Lithuania during the inter-war period. The collection includes mainly correspondence with local and government authorities, local Jewish communities across Lithuania regarding budget, tax collection, salaries of Jewish community officials and their election, Jewish schools, minutes of the meetings of the Jewish councils, annual reports, and budget proposals, documents related to the Jewish emigration from Lithuania to America and the Jewish Folk bank, and newspaper clippings. Also contains many list names including a list of rabbis and a list of Jewish schoolchildren.
Date: inclusive: 1919-1928
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 Hebrew Russian German English
Extent: 57 microfilm reels ; 35 mm.
System of Arrangement: Arrangment is thematic

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 councils--Lithuania--Registers.
Geographic Name: Lithuania--Emigration and immigration--History--20th century.

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), Fond 1129, Opis 1. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the filmed collection via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum International Archives Project in November 2004.
Special Collection: Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive

Record last modified:: 2022-07-28 18:11:04
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