Virtual Exhibition

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VIRTUAL EXHIBITION

LIST OF RECORDS

Leonidas Ferdmanas, a senior police officer of the Vilnius ghetto. 1938. A photograph.
LYA, f. K-1, ap. 58, b. 22859/3, l. 61-1.
Berkas Meščanskis, a police officer of the Vilnius ghetto. 1940. A photograph.
LYA, f. K-1, ap. 58, b. 41803/3, l. 99-3.
Communication published by Stasys Žakevičius,the chairman of Vilnius city and district citizens’committee, and Antanas Iškauskas,the commander of auxiliary police in Vilnius city and area, which announced the order ofthe Vilnius Martial Commandant (issued on 3 July, 1941) for all Jews to wear hallmarks and not to appear on the streets from 6 p.m. until 6 a.m.July 5, 1941. In German. A photocopy.
LYA, f. K-1, ap. 46, b. 4911, l. 189-17.
Bindingdecision No. 1, issued by HansHingst, GeneralCommissioner for Vilnius in General District of Lithuaniaof the Reich Eastern Region (Ostland), bywhich allJews wereobliged towear theStar of David, and forbidden to appear on the mainstreets of the cityand to usepublictransport.August 2, 1941. In German. A photocopy.
LYA, f. K-1, ap. 46, b. 4911, l. 18-4.
Transcription of the note by Aleksandras Lileikis, the head of the Lithuanian Security Police in Vilnius district, to the governor of the Vilnius SD prisonregarding the transference of Jews to the disposition of the commander of the Special Platoon. August 22, 1941.
LYA, f. K-1, ap. 46, b. 1189, l. 105-52.
Announcement by HansHingst, GeneralCommissioner for Vilnius in General District of Lithuania of the Reich Eastern Region (Ostland), which communicatedthat [on August 31, 1941] Jews had been shooting at German soldiers and had paid penalty for that.
LYA, f. K-1, ap. 58, b. 11713/3, l. 186.
Members of the Special Platoon of the Security Police and the Institution of the commander of the Security Servicefor Vilnius city in General District of Lithuania of the Reich Eastern Region (Ostland), and fighters of the Self-Defense Police Battalion stationed in Vilnius. On the outskirts of Vilnius. August 1941. A photograph.
LYA, f. K-1, ap. 58, b. P-17671, l. 52.
Excerpt from thereport of the head oftheVilnius city police station to the commander of Vilnius city police regarding the people detained on September 19-20, 1941, among whomwere residents of Jewish ethicity who„did not wear marks due for Jews“ and therefore had been handed over to the Special Platoon of Vilnius city. In Lithuanian. A photocopy.
LYA, f. K-1, ap. 46, b. 4911, l. 13-14.
People are being shot in Paneriai.August-September, 1941. A photocopy of the photograph.
LYA, f. K-1, ap. 58, b. 11713/3, l. 208.
People are being shot in Paneriai.August-September, 1941. A photocopy of the photograph.
LYA, f. K-40, ap. 1, b. 190, l. 86-7.
Children are being taken to a shooting site in Paneriai, August-September, 1941. A photocopy of the photograph.
LYA, f. K-40, ap. 1, b. 190, l. 86-68.
Certificate issued toŠmarja Alpernas, the second secretary ofthe Vilnius ghettopolice stationNo. 1. October 12, 1941. In German and Lithuanian.The original document.
LYA, f. K-1, ap. 58, b. 28233/3, l. 43-4.
"Yellow employment certificatescampaign"at the Vilniusghettogatein Rūdininkųstreet. October 24, 1941. A photocopy of thephotograph published in The Ghetto, a book by A.Sutzkever,publishedinMoscow, 1946.
LYA, f. K-1, ap. 46, b. 1201, l. 128-1.
"Yellow employment certificatescampaign"in the Vilniusghetto.October 24, 1941. A photocopy of the photograph published in Pages on Vilnius, a book published in Łódź (Poland), 1947.
LYA, f. K-1, ap. 46, b. 1201, l. 128-2.
Announcement by Franz Murer, aide-de-camp and referent for Jewish Affairs to HansHingst, GeneralCommissioner for Vilnius in General District of Lithuania of the Reich Eastern Region (Ostland),on October 29, 1941,published in the newspaper Naujoji Lietuva(No. 105), which communicatedthat all the Jews had to stay within the ghetto and that Vilnius residents were obliged to inform police stations about „Jews and semi-Jews“ who had gone outside the ghetto, and that those of them who would hide Jews, were going to be punished. In German and Lithuanian, and a translation into Russian.A photocopy of the newspaper clipping.
LYA, f. K-1, ap. 58, b. 11713/3, l. 183.
Detainees are being convoyed from Lukiškės prison to Paneriai. [1941] A photocopy of the photograph.
LYA, f. K-1, ap. 58, b. 11713/3, l. 206.
Detainees are being convoyed from Lukiškės prison to Paneriai. [1941] A photocopy of the photograph.
LYA, f. K-1, ap. 58, b. 11713/3, l. 206.
Detainees are being driven to Paneriai. [1941] A photocopy of the photograph.
LYA, f. K-1, ap.58, b. 11713/3, l. 207.
Detainees are being driven to Paneriai. [1941] A photocopy of the photograph.
A photocopy of the photograph.
LYA, f. K-1, ap. 58, b. 11713/3, l. 207.
Detainees are being driven to Paneriai. [1941] A photocopy of the photograph.
LYA, f. K-1, ap. 58, b. 11713/3, l. 208.
Personal identity and employment certificate issued to Leonidas Ferdmanas, a senior policemanof the Vilnius ghetto. March 12, 1943. The original document.
LYA, f. K-1, ap. 58, b. 22859/3, l. 61-2.
Excerpt from anoperational bulletin ofthe Institution of the commander of the Security Service for Vilnius city in General District of Lithuania of the Reich Eastern Region (Ostland) on the murder of 4 000 invalid Jews (from counties of Švenčionys, Ašmena, Svyriai, Eišiškės, Vilnius and Trakai) in Paneriai on April 5, 1943. In German. A copy.
LYA, f. K-1, ap.46, b. 1290, l. 30, 32.
Excerpt from the protocol of the meeting of the underground Committee of theLithuanian Communist (bolsheviks) Party for Vilnius district regarding the intentions of the Vilnius ghettoLC(b)P organization to arm the ghetto prisoners and to them to the Sovietpartisan units to participate in the partisan activities. June 14, 1943. The original document.
LYA, f. 5323, ap. 1, b. 1, l. 9–10.
Excerpt from the letter No. 11written by the Lithuanian Communist (bolsheviks) Party’s Central Committee (LC(b)P CC) and Motiejus Šumauskas-Kazimieras, the head of the operational group of the Staff of the Lithuanian Partisan Movement (SLPM), to Antanas Sniečkus, the head of SLPM, regarding the animosity thatthe Soviet partisans, members of the brigade stationed in Narutis forests (district of Vitebsk, Belarus), under leadership of Fiodor Markov, had shown totheJews who had come to the brigade from the Vilnius ghetto. October 2, 1943. A transcript.
LYA, f. 1, ap. 1, b. 53, l. 71.
Protocol No. 1 of the meeting of the underground Committee of the Lithuanian Communist (bolsheviks) Party(LC(b)P) for Vilniuscity, at which Sonia Medeisker presentedreportson the activities of the United Partisans Organization (FPO) in the Vilnius ghetto, people’sdeparture to the Sovietpartisan units in Narutis forests (district of Vitebsk, Belarus), and young communistsretreatment from the Vilnius ghetto after its liquidation. October 10, 1943. A transcript.
LYA, f. 5323, ap. 1, b. 1, l. 14–17.
Special report ofthe 4th directorate of the USSRPeople’s Commissariat forState Security (NKGB) to the deputy People’s Commissar for NKGB onthestructure of Jewishadministration in the Vilniusghetto, as well as on Jakov Gens, the headofthe ghettoand the police, his deputyDavidDeslerand other people. The report based onthe information received fromJonas Vildžiūnas (the head of a NKGBoperational group, which had beenoperating inthe district of Vileika, Belorussian SSR,and the commander of the Sovietpartisans platoon Buddies) who had anagent inthe Vilniusghettoadministration.November 3, 1943.
LYA, f. K-1, ap. 46, b. 4906, l. 5-7.
Prisoners of the Vilnius ghetto are being searched. [1941–1943] A photocopy of the photograph.
LYA, f. K-1, ap. 58, b. 11713/3, l. 209.
Jewish detainees. [1941–1943].A photocopy of the photograph.
LYA, f. K-1, ap. 58, b. 11713/3, l. 209.
Special report oftheoperational group of the USSRPeople’s Commissariat forState Security (NKGB) to Vsevolod Merkulov, the USSRPeople’s Commissar forState Security, on the arrival of specialist from Germany to liquidate the relics of people murdered in Paneriai.February 26, 1944.
LYA, f. K-41, ap. 1, b. 9, l. 3.
Note by Marijonas Miceika-Gabrys, the secretary of the LC(b)P Committee for Vilnius city and district, on the formation of 4 Soviet partisansplatoons from people who had retreated from the Vilnius ghettoto the forest of Rūdninkai. June 13, 1944. A transcript.
LYA, f. 10, ap. 1, b. 3, l. 4.
Excerpt from the list of the fighters of the Soviet partisan platoon Deathto Fascismwhich had been operating in Lithuania.July 17, 1944. The original document.
LYA, f. 16, ap. 1, b. 1, l. 1-12.
Excerpt from the list of the fighters of the Soviet partisan platoon The Avengerwhich had been operating in Lithuania.July 30, 1944. The original document.
LYA, f. 13, ap. 1, b. 1, l. 2-2.
Excerpt from the list of the fighters of the Soviet partisan platoon Adomas Mickevičiuswhich had been operating in Lithuania.July 1944. The original document.
LYA, f. 8, ap. 1, b. 1, l. 3-2.
Excerpt from the protocol of the inquiry of the witness Abram Bliazer regarding the circumstances of his imprisonment in the ghetto and his escape from theshootingthat took place in Paneriai on October 13, 1941. August 15, 1944. In Lithuanian.The original document.
LYA, f. K-1, ap. 46, b. 4911, l. 6-1, 6-2, 6-3, 6-4.
Excerpt from the protocol of the testimony by Marijona Meškauskienė on how Marcelė Kubiliūtė, former member of Vilnius city and district citizens’comitee and the underground Union of the Lithuanian Fighters for Freedom, had helped to hand over Irena Veis, who had escaped from the ghetto, to Izidorius Rudaitis, the head of an orphanage. September 2, 1944.
LYA, f. K-1, ap. 58, b. 38353/3, l. 94, 100, 101
Leaf of awarding orders and medalsto Šliomas Brantas, a fighter of the Soviet partisan platoon The Avenger, for his participation in the Soviet partisan movement in Lithuania, signed by the platoon’s commander Juozas Simanavičius. September 6, 1944. The original document.
LYA, f. 13, ap. 1, b. 8, l. 5, 5 atv.
History of the Soviet partisan platoon For Victory,written by the platoon’s commander, Abraomas Šabrinskis. September 29, 1944. The original document.
LYA, f. 11, ap. 1, b. 1, l. 13–17.
Sentence ofthe Military Tribunal of the USSRPeople’s Commissariatfor Internal Affairs (NKVD) which imposed capital penalty on Berkas Meščanskis, former officer of the Vilnius ghetto police.October 11, 1944. In Russian.The original document.
LYA, f. K-1, ap. 58, a. b. 41803/3, l. 21.
Sentence of the Military Tribunal of the USSRPeople’s Commissariatfor Internal Affairs (NKVD) imposed on Povilas Mikalauskas, who had worked as a pyrotechnist in ammunition stores in Burbiškės (near Vilnius) during World War II. October 11, 1944. In Russian.The original document.
LYA, f. K-1, ap. 58, s. b. 38492/3, l. 13.
Protocol of the testimonyby Juzefas Stankevičius, a resident of the village of Pikutiškės (in the district of Riešė, county of Vilnius), regarding Berkas Libermanas and his family members, who had been hiding in his house since 1943. November 5, 1944.
LYA, f. K-1, ap. 58, b. 27508/3, l. 25–26.
Act of the LSSR Extraordinary State Commission for Assessment and Examination of the Misdeedsof GermanFascistsand Their Accomplices on mass massacre campaigns in Paneriai [1944]. In Russian.The original document.
LYA, f.K-1-58-20037/3, t.3, l. 210–218.
Excerpt from the list of the fighters of the Soviet partisan platoon The Fight, which had been operating in Lithuania. 1944. The original document.
LYA, f. 10, ap. 1, b. 1, l. 33 atv.–34.
Photograph taken by the officials of the LSSR Extraordinary State Commission for Assessment and Examination of the Misdeedsof GermanFascistsand Their Accomplices, to record the exhumation and examination of victims’ remains in Paneriai in 1944.
LYA, f. K-1, ap. 58, b. 24975/3, l. 196.
Photograph taken by the officials of the LSSR Extraordinary State Commission for Assessment and Examination of the Misdeedsof GermanFascistsand Their Accomplices, to record the exhumation and examination of victims’ remains in Paneriai in 1944.
LYA, f. K-1, ap. 58, b. 24975/3, l. 198.
Plan of the mass massacre site in Paneriai. 1944. A photocopy.
LYA, f. K-1, ap. 46, b. 4911, l. 14-8.
Hallmarks that Jews were ordered to wear by Nazis. [1941-1944]. A photograph.
LYA, f. K-1, ap.58, b. 11713/3, l. 210.
HansHingst, GeneralCommissioner for Vilnius in General District of Lithuania of the Reich Eastern Region (Ostland). [1941–1944]. A photograph.
LYA, f. K-1, ap.46, b. 1263, l. 146-6.
Excerpt from the protocol of the interrogationof Borisas Baltutis, former member of the 1th Self-Defence Police Batalion, the head of the Bezdonys camp guard, regarding the shooting of 300 prisoners in 1943. January 9, 1945. In Russian.The original document.
LYA, f. K-1, ap. 58, b. 46348/3, l. 320–322.
Text of the speech by Stasys Žakevičius, the chairman of Vilnius city and district citizens’committee, delivered on the radio on June 28, 1941. Translation into Russian of January 20, 1945.
LYA, f. K-1, ap. 58, b. 38353/3, l. 129a-1, 129a-2.
Excerpt from the protocol of the testimony by Etta Valk regarding the shooting of her husband Leizer and the other Jew, who had escaped from the Vilnius ghetto, that took place in Juzef Subatkovski’s barn (in the district of Riešė, county of Vilnius) on December 15, 1945.(January 31, 1945). In Russian.The original document.
LYA, f. K-1, ap. 58, b. 27950/3, l. 19, 20.
Excerpt from the protocol of the interrogation of Petras Buragas, the referent for Jewish Affairs to Vilnius city municipality, regarding the organization of the Vilnius ghetto. April 4, 1945. In Russian.The original document.
LYA, f. K-1, ap. 58, b. P-18777, l. 11, 13–14.
Excerpt from the protocol of the testimony by Kostas Alkauskas, former policeman of the Vilnius railway station, regarding the shooting of 24 Jews in Burbiškės (near Vilnius) in July, 1941, for assuming attempt on a German officer’s life. May 4, 1945. In Russian.The original document.
LYA, f. K-1, ap. 58, b. 22154/3, l. 21, 21 atv.
Excerpt from the protocol of the interrogation of Wilhelm Moor, the officer of the Reich Security Police and the member of operational platoon EK-9 of the Security Service, who was arrested by the Soviet occupation army in Germany, on how the commander of platoon EK-9 communicated the order by Heinrich Himler, the commander of the Reich SS and police, to destroy physically Jews within the confines ofNazi occupation. October 21, 1945. In Russian. A photocopy.
LYA, f. K-1, ap. 46, b. 1200, l. 1-2, 1-3.
Excerpt from the sentence of the Military Tribunal of the Baltic territorial departmentthat was imposed on 7 war criminals, among them on Friedrich Jekeln, the commander of the SS and police in the occupied Eastern Region (Ostland). January 26 – February 3, 1946. In Russian. A printing.
LYA, f. K-1, ap. 58, a. b.796/3, l. 118-5 (l. 173–177).
Cover of the edition Court Proceedingsin the Case of GermanFascistsMisdeeds in the Soviet Republics of Latvia,Lithuania, Estonia (published in Riga, 1946). In Russian.
LYA, f. K-1, ap. 58, a. b.796/3, l. 118-5.
Samuilas Šapiro, a former prisoner ofthe Vilnius ghetto. A phototaken in the interior prison of the People’s Commissariatfor State Security (NKGB) in Vilnius. 1946.
LYA, f. K-1, ap. 58, KAB P-10361, l. 11 atv.
Jefim Minc, who had been working as aclerk and recruiter inthe Vilnius ghettolabour exchange from March to September, 1943. [1943]. A photograph.
LYA, f. K-1, ap. 58, b. 43991/3, l. 422-66.
Vladislavas Maleckis, a resident of Vilnius city, who in summer 1943 informed the Gestapo on the Jews who had been hiding in Saint Ignotas and M. Strašūnas streets in Vilnius. [Not later than 1947]. A photograph.
LYA, f. K-1, ap. 58, b. 13772/3, l. 53-3.
Franz Murer, aide-de-camp and referent for Jewish Affairs to HansHingst, GeneralCommissionerfor Vilnius in General District of Lithuania of the Reich Eastern Region (Ostland). [Not earlier as 1947]. A photograph.
LYA, f. K-1, ap. 58, b. 11713/3, l. 7.
Excerpt from theindictmentofthe 3rd department of the 29th railway brigade of Ministry for State Security (MGB)imposed on Vladislav Malecki. January 19, 1948. In Russian.The original document.
LYA, f. K-1, ap. 58, b. 13772/3, l. 50, 51.
Excerpt from the protocol of the testimony by Šlioma Kovarskion how Franz Murer, aide-de-camp and referent for Jewish Affairs to HansHingst, GeneralCommissioner for Vilnius in General District of Lithuania of the Reich Eastern Region (Ostland), had inspected the ghetto prisoners by the ghetto gates. June 11, 1948. In Russian.The original document.
LYA, f. K-40, ap. 1, b. 109, l. 114-115.
Excerpt from the protocol of the testimony bySolomonas Garbelisregarding Franz Murer’s, aide-de-camp and referent for Jewish Affairs to HansHingst, GeneralCommissioner for Vilnius in General District of Lithuania of the Reich Eastern Region (Ostland), activities in the ghetto, the shooting of the elderly men, “who were taken to a sanatorium in Antakalnio street”, and the murder of orphans in 1942. June 30, 1948. In Russian.The original document.
LYA, f. K-40, ap. 1, b. 109, l. 136–139.
Protocol of the testimony by Aleksandras Rindziunskisregarding the Vilnius ghetto. July 18, 1948. In Russian.The original document.
LYA, f. K-40, ap.1, b. 109, l. 154–165.
Protocol of the testimony by Matvej Šalis, saying that he was accommodated in the Vilnius ghetto by policemen of the 5th Vilnius police station. August 12, 1948.
LYA, f. K-1, ap. 58, b. 11133/3, t. 1, l. 91, 92.
Sentence of the Military Tribunal of the USSRMinistry of the Interior (MVD)that was imposed on Franz Murer, an Austrian citizen, former aide-de-camp and referent for Jewish Affairs to HansHingst, GeneralCommissioner for Vilnius in General District of Lithuania of the Reich Eastern Region (Ostland). According to the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the USSR(USSR PSC) of April 19, 1943, and the decree of USSR PSC of May 26, 1947, On Capital Punishment,Franz Murer was sentenced to 25 years of imprisonment in penitentiary camps. September 25, 1948. In Russian.The original document.
LYA, f. K-1, ap. 58, s. b. 11713/3, l. 41-42.
Note ofMinistry for State Security of the Lithuanian SSR onthe monument (designed by Michaelis Kleinas)that was built in Paneriai on the Jewish community initiative, for money raised by its members. April 15, 1949. In Russian.The original document.
LYA, f. K-1, ap.10, b. 30, l. 221.
Memorial in Paneriai to commemorate the Jews who were murdered by Nazi occupiers. 1949. A photograph.
LYA, f. K-1, ap. 10, b. 30, l. 223.
Excerpt from the protocol of the interrogation of Jonas Goncerauskas, the head of the 6th station(since 1943 – the head of the 4th procinct) of Vilnius city police, regarding mass arrests of Jews that took place on the territory of the 6th station of Vilnius city police, and their convoy to the ghetto. May 19, 1950. In Russian.The original document.
LYA, f. K-1, ap. 58, b. 18162/3, l. 24, 27, 28.
Memoirs by Borisas Šeršnevskis, former secretary of the Vilnius ghetto communist organization, a member of the underground Committee of theLithuanian Communist (bolsheviks) Party (LC(b)P) for Vilnius city, onthe Vilnius ghetto communist activities in 1941-1943, the foundation of the United Partisans Organization (FPO) and its connections with the Vilnius communist undeground and the Soviet partisans. September 23, 1950. The original document.
LYA, f. 3377, ap. 3377, b. 1122, l. 7–12.
Protocol of the interrogation of Stasys Livčinas, a member (from 1941 to 1943) of the Special Platoon of the Security Police and the Institution of the commander of Security Service for Vilnius city in General District of Lithuania of the Reich Eastern Region (Ostland), on the convoy of arrestees from Lukiškės prison to Paneriai and their shooting. July 19, 1951. In Russian.The original document.
LYA, f. K-1, ap. 58, b. 36138/3, l. 41–48.
Stasys Livčinas, a member (from 1941 to 1943) of the Special Platoon of Security Police and the Institution of the commander of the Security Service for Vilnius city in General District of Lithuania of the Reich Eastern Region (Ostland) A photograph taken inthe interior prison of Ministryfor State Security (MGB) of the Lithuanian SSR. 1951.
LYA, f. K-1, ap.58, a.b. 36138/3, l. 59-1.
Excerpt from the protocol of the testimony by Borisas Šeršnevskis regardingthe United Partisan Organization (FPO) connections with the Union of Active Fight, under the leadership of Janas Pševalskis, and the foundation of the underground Committee of theLithuanian Communist (bolsheviks) Party(LC(b)P) for Vilnius city. October 7, 1952. In Russian.The original document.
LYA, f. K-1, ap. 58, b. 2073/3, l. 147, 147 ap.
Excerpt from the protocol of the interrogation of Pranas Norkus, former member of the 2ndSelf-Defense Police Battalion, regardingthe arrests of Jews in 1941, their relocation to the Vilnius ghetto, convoying from the ghetto to Vilnius (Lukiškės) prison and from the prison to the forest of Paneriai. December 18, 1953. In Russian.The original document.
LYA, f. K-1, ap. 58, b. 24975/3, l. 34, 35.
Excerpt from the finding of the Committee for State Security (KGB) to the Council of Ministers of the Lithuanian SSR regarding the criminal case on Leonidas Ferdmanas, former senior policeman of the Vilnius ghetto. In Russian.The original document.
LYA, f. K-1, ap. 58, b. 22859/3, l. 92, 93, 95.
Excerpt from the finding of the Committee for State Security (KGB) to the Council of Ministers of the Lithuanian SSR on how members of the rebel platoon of the mental hospital at the end of June in 1941 arrested Jews, who had lived in Vokiečių street, in Vilnius. In Russian.The original document.
LYA, f. K-1, ap. 58, b. 10001/3, l. 274.
Prisoner of the Vilnius ghetto, fighter of the Sovietpartisan platton For Victory, Šlioma Kovarskis with his son. 1956. A photograph from the file preserved in the archival fond of the department for Visas and registration of Ministry of the Interior (MVD) of the Lithuanian SSR.