Overview
- Description
- Contains records of Lithuanian Jewish charity organizations who provided aid to the Jewish repatriates from Russia expelled from Lithuania during the WWI, and to Jewish refugees who fled from Poland, 1939-1940 (ca, 12,000 refugees). Includes also files relating to the activities of Jewish charities in Vilnius (Vilna), Kaunas (Kovno) and other cities in Lithuania; minutes, reports, financial and statistical reports of Jewish organizations "Ezra", OZE; lists of Jews who applied for the financial aid and medical treatment, and individual forms with personal data of Jewish refugees.
- Alternate Title
- Lithuanian Jewish charities
- Date
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inclusive:
1922-1940
- 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
- Yiddish Lithuanian Hebrew
- Genre/Form
- Minutes. Reports. Statistics. Registers. Questionnaires.
- Extent
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88,425 digital images : JPEG ; 160.7 GB .
- System of Arrangement
- The system of arrangement of the source repository has been preserved in the digital files. Arranged in four series: 1. Jewish repatriates from Russia, 1920-1922,1931-1933. 2. Jewish refugees who fled from Poland, 1939-1940. 3. Jewish charities in Vilnius (Vilna), Kaunas (Kovno) and other cities in Lithuania; 4. Statistics, reports, individual forms, and miscellaneous documents.
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
- World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Rescue--Lithuania. Jewish refugees--Europe--History--20thy century--Registers. Jews--Legal status, laws, etc.--Lithuania--History--20th century. Jews--Lithuania--History--20th century--Registers. Jews--Lithuania--Social conditions--20th century--Statistics. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Lithuania. Jews--Charities.
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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Lietuvos centrinis valstybės archyvas
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Source of acquisition is the Lietuvos centrinis valstybės archyvas (Lithuanian Central State Archives), Fond 1147. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the collection via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives International Archives Project in 2014.
- Special Collection
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Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2023-06-13 11:20:24
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn77124
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