Metadata: Overview of the Manuscripts of the Vytautas Sirijos Gira Fonds
Collection
- Country:
- Lithuania
- Holding institution:
- Wroblewski Library of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences
- Holding institution (official language):
- Lietuvos mokslų akademijos Vrublevskių biblioteka
- Postal address:
- Žygimantų g. 1, 01102 Vilnius
- Phone number:
- +370 5 262 9537
- Web address:
- http://www.mab.lt/
- Email:
- aptarnavimas@mab.lt
- Reference number:
- F.349
- Title:
- Overview of the Manuscripts of the Vytautas Sirijos Gira Fonds
- Title (official language):
- Vytauto Sirijos Giros rankraščių fondo apžvalga
- Creator/accumulator:
- Gira, Vytautas Sirijos
- Date(s):
- 1921/1997
- Language:
- Lithuanian
- Polish
- Russian
- Ukrainian
- Extent:
- 1,563 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Photographic images
- Scope and content:
-
The fonds is divided into 6 parts: 1) Personal documents; 2) correspondence; 3) activities 4) works of literature; 5) photographs; 6) typewritten/printed material. The Jewish-related material includes nine letters addressed to Vytautas Sirijos Gira from Stanislavas Pancerzyński, in which there are comments on families murdered by the Nazis. In addition to the letters, there is an article (1946) from the magazine “Gazeta Ludowa” about the massacred Jews in Grodno, among them Pancerzyński, his wife and her Wiewiórscy family.
Other relevant documents include an act issued by the commission of Vilnius city in 1945 about Nazi crimes in the city. The act was compiled according to the testimonies of witnesses and mentions massacres of Jews, prisoners of war and mass deportations to labour camps. The collection also includes an article (read by V. Sirijos Gira) written by Juozas Jurginis about a mass execution of Jews in Marijampolė, 1944.
- Archival history:
- After the World War II Vytautas Sirijos Gira kept corresponding with his friends, mostly well-known Lithuanian writers who had fled to the West. Owing to his fear of Soviet authorities the writer began secretly to pass on the letters from abroad to Vladas Abramavičius, the first manager of the Manuscripts department in the Wroblewski Library of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences. After the death of Vladas, V Sirijos Gira passed the manuscripts to the Lithuanian Archives of Literature and Art in 1966. The manuscripts kept in the MAB were opened only after Lithuanian independence in 1990.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Vytautas Sirijos Gira was born on 12 April 1911. He studied medicine at Vytautas Didysis University, but quit and changed his career path to literature. He worked as a journalist, teacher, editor, and university lecturer. Later he graduated from the faculty of medicine and started working as a doctor. He is mostly known for his novels which were translated into Russian, Latvian, Estonian, Polish, and German.
- Access points: locations:
- Grodno
- Lithuania
- Marijampole
- Vilnius
- System of arrangement:
- The material is arranged chronologically.
- Finding aids:
- A list of files is available at the MAB.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People
- Author of the description:
- Monika Žulytė
