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Association of Jewish merchants in Wilno (Vilnius, Lithuania) (Fond 338)

Document | Digitized | Accession Number: 2019.202.1 | RG Number: RG-26.070

Overview

Description: The collection contains a complete set of records of the Association of Jewish Merchants in Wilno (Vilnius, Lithuania), 1919-1940. The collection includes minutes of the meetings of the association, bylaws, applications of the members, membership lists, annual activities and financial reports and books, records and verdicts of the Arbitrary Court, lists of shop owners, and financial records of the mutual aid committee. In addition also includes various correspondence with Jewish organizations and communities in Poland and members of the association, local municipal authorities, Ministry of Finance of Poland, Chamber of Commerce, circular letters of the Polish Government as well as individual cases of Jewish merchants in Wilno related to the payment of taxes, etc.
Date: inclusive: 1919-1940

Physical Details

Language: Yiddish Polish
Genre/Form: Applications. Circular letters. Correspondence. Financial records. Registers. Reports.
Extent: 161,493 digital images : JPEG ; 499 GB .
System of Arrangement: Arranged chronologically in two groups: 1. 1919-1940, Protocols, financial books, lists of members, lists of salaries, statements of members' property status, and price lists for good; 2. 1928-1940: Account books, membership reports, and general reports.

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 merchants--Lithuania--Vilnius--History--20th century. Jewish organizations--Lithuania--History--20th century. Jewish organizations--Poland--History--20th century. Jews--Legal status, laws, etc.--Poland--History--20th century. Executive departments. Jewish labor unions.
Geographic Name: Vilnius (Lithuania) Poland

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 1143. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum received the filmed collection via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum International Archival Programs Division in June 2019, and a final accretion in Nov. 2019.

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