Metadata: Solomon Brothers’ Factory of Tobacco and Cigarettes
Collection
- Country:
- Lithuania
- Holding institution:
- Kaunas Regional State Archives
- Holding institution (official language):
- Kauno regioninis valstybės archyvas
- Postal address:
- Maironio g. 28B, 44249 Kaunas
- Phone number:
- +370 (837) 323 111
- Web address:
- https://www.archyvai.lt/lt/kaa_naujienos.html
- Email:
- kaunas@archyvai.lt
- Reference number:
- F. 15
- Title:
- Solomon Brothers’ Factory of Tobacco and Cigarettes
- Title (official language):
- Brolių Salamonų tabako ir papirosų fabrikas
- Creator/accumulator:
- Solomon Brothers’ factory of tobacco and cigarettes
- Date(s):
- 1925/1946
- Language:
- Lithuanian
- Extent:
- 973 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The fonds contains various records from the Solomon Brothers’ tobacco and cigarettes factory in Kaunas. Most of the documents are ledgers of the factory’s workers, books of payments, account cards of employees, correspondence with the State Insurance Institution, information on tobacco taxation, correspondence with the tax department and other financial institutions, documents related to the National Health Insurance Fund, correspondence with the Committee of Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Bank of Lithuania regarding financial questions, the “home book” of the Solomon brothers and a list of workers.
- Archival history:
- The source and date the documents were received are undetermined. The fond was deposited in the Kaunas branch of the former Lithuanian SSR State Archives. The fonds was supplemented a few times with additional documents. It changed its number from No. R-244 to No. 15.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The factory was opened in Kaunas in 1923 and it was known as one of the most famous and biggest factories in the tobacco industry in Lithuania. The owner, Israel Solomon, established the factory together with his seven sons Elyahu, Meyer, Moses, Rubin, Saulius Girsch, Berk and Chaim Levi. Once the family expanded its chain of businesses and became one of the richest families in Lithuania, they also became involved in philanthropy. After World War II the factory was nationalised, and renamed “Kova”. The factory operated until 1996.
- Access points: locations:
- Kaunas
- Access points: persons/families:
- Solomon
- Subject terms:
- Manufacturing
- Trade and commerce
- System of arrangement:
- The collection is arranged chronologically.
- Finding aids:
- A list of files is available at the Kaunas Regional State Archives.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People
- Author of the description:
- Monika Žulytė