Metadata: Administration Department of the Ministry of Interior
Collection
- Country:
- Lithuania
- Holding institution:
- Lithuanian Central State Archives
- Holding institution (official language):
- Lietuvos centrinis valstybės archyvas
- Postal address:
- O. Milošiaus g. 21, 10102, Vilnius
- Phone number:
- +370 5 247 7830
- Web address:
- https://www.archyvai.lt/lt/lcva.html
- Email:
- lcva@archyvai.it
- Reference number:
- f. 1367
- Title:
- Administration Department of the Ministry of Interior
- Title (official language):
- Vidaus reikalų ministerijos Administracijos departamentas
- Date(s):
- 1919/1941
- Language:
- English
- French
- German
- Italian
- Lithuanian
- Polish
- Russian
- Extent:
- 17,825 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- This collection contains documents of the Administration Department of the Ministry of Interior. Inventory 1 contains files of associations, organisations and societies including Jewish associations: Gmilus-Chesed, Ezro, Ezras-Israel, Bikur-Holim, Ort, Agudat Israel, Mahzikei Tora, Tiferet Bahurim, Talmud Torah and others. Documents include association statutes, lists of board members, founders, members and branches, budgets, minutes, biographical news and more.
- Archival history:
- The LCVA was established in 1921, following a statute of the Lithuanian Board of Education. In 1940, when the Soviets occupied Lithuania, the NKVD took over the archive. During the Nazi occupation of 1941-1944 the archive continued its activities and was renamed the Vilnius National Archive. Following the second Soviet occupation of 1944, the NKVD regained control of the archives. When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, the archive was renamed the Lithuanian Central State Archive.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The Administration Department of the Ministry of Interior was set up in 1919 with the establishment of an independent Lithuanian Republic. It dealt with questions related to nationality, oversaw activities and the process of granting foreign and internal passports and visas, the Lithuanisation of surnames and name places, granted foreigners residency and work permits, registered associations and organisations, censured films, supervised the activities of the emigration bureau, solved administrational cases, tended to the ministry’s finances, inspected work hours and the personal files of employees, provided the ministry and its other departments with weapons, uniforms, books and folders.
- System of arrangement:
- There are ten inventories.
- Access, restrictions:
- Some documents are restricted.
- Finding aids:
- Brief information on the collection and detailed inventories are available 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
