Documentation from the Latvian State Archives, Latvia, 1940-1993

Previous names for the Archives were: LSA (Latvian State Archives); LNA LVA (Latvijas Nacionālā arhīva Latvijas Valsts arhīvs); CVORA (Centrālais Valsts Oktobra revolūcijas un sociālistiskās celtniecības arhīvs). On 01 January 1961 a decision was made to establish the Central State Archive of the October Revolution and Socialist Construction of the Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic; following Latvia's independence, this archive was renamed the State Archive of Latvia (SAL) on 01 May 1991. Under the State Administration Law of the Republic of Latvia, this system of Archives was reorganized and the National Archives of Latvia (NAL) was established on 01 January 2011. The State Archives of Latvia subsequently became a structural unit of the NAL. The National Archives of Latvia - State Archives of Latvia collects, maintains and preserves documents of central governmental institutions; documents of the Rīga and Jūrmala municipal institutions; personal fonds of Latvians and foreigners who have had a political, social, scientific, cultural or artistic impact on Latvia; archives of Latvian exile organizations. The Archives also contain documents concerning Latvian social democracy; documents of the Communist Party of Latvia; and documents from the Latvian SSR (Committee for State Security-KGB) about repressed persons. The State Archives of Latvia insures the preservation and use of documents related to the history of Latvia since 1940 according to the Law of Archives. On 01 January 2014 the NAL State Archives of Latvia held 3,164,852 archival units. Described and organized fonds of the State Archives of Latvia have inventory lists and archival descriptions. Official documents received from the Yad Vashem Archives: Trial documents relating to the arrest, investigation, prosecution, and sentencing during the Soviet annexation of Latvia in 1940-1941. On 14 June 1941, the authorities began to arrest thousands of Riga Jews who were defined as "hostile to the Soviet regime" and to deport these Jews to Siberia. These included Zionist activists, Revisionists, Bund members, Agudat Israel members, and "bourgeois" Jews. Most of the Jews never returned from Siberia. All of their property in Latvia was nationalized. Included in the collection are lists of evacuees from Latvia who were sent to the distant interior of the Soviet Union in 1941, cards, personal files with autobiographies; lists of refugees from Poland; personal files of Jews who returned from concentration camps in Europe and who passed through military filtration departments of the KGB during 1945-1957. Documents related to the Jewish Religious Society in Riga, including: minutes of a meeting of the board on 22/04/1945; request for registration of the community, 07/04/1945; protocols; messages regarding parcels sent from the United States; lists of Jewish orphans; autobiographies of synagogue governors; protocols; lists of board members, acts and reports regarding the economic activities of synagogues in Rezekne, Ludza, Daugavpils, Riga, Dagda, Kraslava, Bauska, Karsava, Krustpils, and Zilupe; liquidation of the cemetery in Daugavpils, and the transfer of graves; petitions for the release of synagogue buildings from stables and warehouses, and for the protection of cemeteries and monuments in Rezekne, Dagda, Kraslava, Bauska, Ludza, Karsava, Krustpils, and Zilupe. Correspondence between government departments regarding the repatriation and re-evacuation of the Jewish population to Poland after the Holocaust. Documents related to Holocaust survivors and their family members, in the fields of education and medicine; nominations for awards; and the awarding [giving] of personal pensions in the cities of Latvia: Daugavpils, Madona, Rezekne, Jekabpils, Riga, Ventspils, Liepaja, and Kuldiga. 05.03.2023 New documents received from Fond Nr. 132 The Soviet State Extraordinary Commission of Latvian SSR with 26 inventories belongs the German occupation, documents accounting for the damages caused to the citizens of the Latvian SSR. Description of the fond contains 19 districts in rural municipalities and five cities of Republic (Ventspils, Daugavpils, Jelgava, Liepaja, Riga). The descriptions contain notes about losses inflicted to civil citizens by Nazi German occupiers. factories, enterprises, and public organizations; news of the cities and regions of the LSSR about citizens who perished or were taken to Germany for forced labor including lists of persons deported to Nazi Germany, lists of Latvian war criminals. 27.06.2023 Digitization documents from The Soviet State Extraordinary Commission for Ascertaining and Investigating the Crimes Committed by the German-Fascist Invaders and Their Accomplices. Fond 132 includes documents about the period between 1941 and 1946; some documents are dated from 1947 and refer to the following regions of Latvia: Abrene, Aizpute, Bauska, Valka. Fund No. 132-5 The Soviet State Extraordinary Commission (ChGK) of the Latvian SSR, 1944 - 1947. Documents from the German occupation accounting for the damages caused to the citizens of the Latvian SSR, Valmiera District: Brenguļu, Kauguru, Ozolskaya, Umurgskaya, Jpikskaya, Baunskaya, Duntskaya, Kiegelskaya, Diklskaya, Nabskaya, Katvarskaya, Vainizhskaya, Augstrozskaya, Jaunburtnieki, Ladskaya, Vilkenskaya, Jaunvalskaya, Braslavskaya, Tuyskaya, Vilzenskaya, Daugulskaya, Liepupskaya, Rentsenskaya, Konskaya, Ruienskaya, Burtnieki, Rozenskaya, and Lodskaya voivodeships, the cities of Ainaži, Limbazi, Salacgriva, Rujiena, and other locations. Funds No. 132-6; 132-7 The Soviet State Extraordinary Commission (ChGK) of the Latvian SSR, 1941–1944; 1946–1947. Documents from the German occupation accounting for the damages caused to citizens of the Latvian SSR, Ventspils District (Ance, Dundaga, Edole, Piltene, Popsk, Puzsk, Ugalsk, Varvsk, Venta). Daugavpils District (Aglone, Aizskalne, Aule, Bikiernieki, Dagda, Indra, Kalupe, Kapin, Kraslava, Liksne, Livani, Nicgale, Preili, Robezniki, Rudzete, Viski). The documents contain lists of persecuted citizens, among them a large number of Jews, with family members and their fate indicated. Also included are summary statements with statistical data.