Metadata: Ludza County Police Institutions
Collection
- Country:
- Latvia
- Holding institution:
- Latvian State Historical Archives
- Holding institution (official language):
- Latvijas Valsts vēstures arhīvs
- Postal address:
- Slokas iela 16, Rīga, 1048
- Phone number:
- +371 20 017 505
- Reference number:
- 1412
- Title:
- Ludza County Police Institutions
- Title (official language):
- Ludzas apriņķa policijas iestādes
- Creator/accumulator:
- Ludza County Police Institutions
- Date(s):
- 1919/1944
- Language:
- Latvian
- Russian
- Extent:
- 3,860 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Photographic images
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
The collection contains documents of the Ludza County Police Institutions containing cases of the Ludza county police for 1941-1944: personal files of police officers and members of the "C" group - police assistants of the Ludza county, lists of police officers, orders and instructions of the Reich Commissioner, District Commissioner, SD and Security Police Command, about Stalag-340 (prisoner of war concentration camp); orders of the chief of police of Ludza county, orders of the head of the SS and district police; lists of wanted persons, of security guards recruited on a voluntary basis, of weapons and ammunition issued to police officers; lists of the police of the “C” group of the Ludza county, lists of those who fled to the USSR shortly before the arrival of the Germans; cases of prisoners, lists of those released from prison, cases of foreigners, refugees and stateless persons; information about Russian partisans, lists and questionnaires of aizsargs (members of the paramilitary formation, during the German occupation; many aizsargs were Nazi helpers); cases of military volunteers and deserters, lists of Soviet military refugees, criminal cases, economic issues, etc. One of the archival files of this period (19 June 1942 - 11 January 1944) contains correspondence about possessions confiscated from Jews.
The collection also contains cases of Ludza County for the inter-war period (1920-1940) – these are the files of the Ludza County Police Chancellery, the Criminal Police Department, four police stations and the border guard departments of the Zilupe District and the Poleschina District. These include orders and instructions, registration books of wanted persons, prisoners, persons under surveillance and foreigners; correspondence about foreigners who want to obtain Latvian citizenship; correspondence about long-term visas for foreigners; registration book for foreigners with a residence permit for a year; personal files of foreigners, registration books of various certificates and passports; registration books of various societies; alphabetical lists of companies, their composition and charters; permits for issuing weapons, criminal cases, information about crimes and incidents; correspondence about conscripts, lists; smuggling cases; correspondence on the issuance of foreign and domestic passports; correspondence with border police departments about incidents, wanted persons, etc.; lists of certificates of hunters; documents on the basis of which passports were issued; lists and certificates of cab drivers, lists of fines and fined persons, etc. Also in the archival inventory of the inter-war period there is the case of the Kraslava branch of the United Zionist-Socialist Party (1934).
Passport registration books are of great value, for example, in such a book for 1922 there are records about the Teitelbaum family and photographs of each family member: Michel Teitelbaum, son of Gavril, lives at 29 Sebezhas Street, Ludza; the passport was issued on the basis of an order of 1921 published in "Government Gazette" (the law on citizenship) and a certificate dated 25 January 1922, No. 125. He was born in Osveya (a village in Vitebsk province, now in Belarus), married, 56 years old, a Jew, a merchant; Sora Teitelbaum, daughter of David, born in Ludza, 45 years old. Their children born in Ludza are Itzik-Yankel (19 years old) and Feiga (20 years old).
- Archival history:
- After World War II materials from the interwar period, along with earlier materials, were part of the Central State Archive of the Latvian SSR. In 1962 it was decided to reorganise the archive and it was renamed the Central State Historical Archives of the Latvian SSR. The materials predating the period of Soviet rule were deposited in this archive, predecessor of the current State Historical Archive.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The city of Ludza (formerly Lutsin) is the centre of Ludza county. It is located 265 km from Riga, near the border with Russia. According to some reports, Jews first came to the city in the 16th century. The community was established at the beginning of the 18th century. In 1935, 1,518 Jews (24% of the population) lived in Ludza. In Ludza county there were 93,200 people in 1935, of whom 4% were Jews. Ludza was an important religious centre. For a century and a half, the community was led by famous rabbis from the Altshuler, Tsiyuni and Don-Ihye families. In the 1930s, there were eight synagogues and houses of worship in the city.
- Access points: locations:
- Kraslava
- Ludza
- Poleschina
- Zilupe
- Access points: persons/families:
- Teitelbaum
- Yerusha Network member:
- Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People
- Author of the description:
- Jana Makarova, Riga
