Metadata: Ministry of Internal Affairs
Collection
- Country:
- Lithuania
- Holding institution:
- Lithuanian Central State Archives
- Holding institution (official language):
- Lietuvos Centrinis Valstybinis archyvas
- Postal address:
- O. Milašiaus g. 21, 10102 Vilnius
- Phone number:
- +370 5 247 7830
- Web address:
- https://www.archyvai.lt/lt/lcva.html
- Email:
- Lcva@archyvai.lt
- Reference number:
- 377
- Title:
- Ministry of Internal Affairs
- Title (official language):
- Vidaus reikalų ministerija
- Creator/accumulator:
- Lithuanian Central State Archive
- Date(s):
- 1918/1942
- Language:
- Belarusian
- English
- French
- German
- Latin
- Lithuanian
- Latvian
- Polish
- Russian
- Extent:
- 3,914 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
This collection contains documents of the Lithuanian Ministry of Internal Affairs from 1918 to 1942. Documents of various departments and its activities can be found in this collection, such as personnel files, papers related to passport permits, accounting documents, documents of the finance department and more.
In terms of Jewish content, one series in particular is relevant: “Correspondence pertaining Jewish communities and the Jewish press” (inventory 10, file 286). It contains memoranda of the Department for Associations and Press regarding Jewish communities that describe their history and activities; requests of numerous Jewish rabbis, organisations and persons to permit the continued existence of official Jewish communities; memoranda of the Jewish Community Council about its activities; records of tax payments; and the Jewish periodical "Dos Vort". In addition, inventory 5, file 208, contains protocols of the general convention of “Maccabi”.
- Archival history:
- This collection was was supplemented in 1951, 1961, 1969, 1973, 1979, 2003 and 2012.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The Ministry of Internal Affairs was established in 1918 with the establishment of the independent Lithuanian Republic. It finished its activities in 1940 under the Soviet occupation of Lithuania.
- Access points: locations:
- Lithuania
- Subject terms:
- Correspondence
- Jewish community
- Jewish press
- Publishing
- Rabbis
- Yiddish periodicals
- System of arrangement:
- There are twelve inventories.
- Access, restrictions:
- Access to some of the documents is restricted.
- Finding aids:
- Detailed inventories are available for free online access on the website of the Lithuanian Chief Archivist Service.
- Links to finding aids:
- https://eais-pub.archyvai.lt/eais/faces/pages/forms/search/F3001.jspx
- Yerusha Network member:
- Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People
- Author of the description:
- Julija Levin, 2019. Edited by Aaron Lasaine, Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People, 2019
