Yad Vashem Collections - Documents

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Documentation from the Muzejs Ebreji Latvijā (Museum "Jews in Latvia")

The Muzejs Ebreji Latvijā (Museum of Latvian Jewry) was established in 1989 by Holocaust survivors and by the well-known historian Margers Vestermanis. The museum collection includes documents and photographs from private archives and family albums encompassing 450 years of Jewish history in Latvia. Memoirs and testimonies from the Nazi occupation period, mostly of Holocaust survivors but also memoirs of rescuers of Jews and their companions, have a special place in the museum collection. Information regarding the Holocaust includes lists of ghettos and inmates; lists of Jews who were murdered; and lists of...

Type of Material : List of Police Officers, Diagram, List of Jewish Survivors, Names, Names of Perpetrators, Diary, Testimony, List of Perpetrators, List, List of Deportees, Memoirs, Record of Persecuted Persons

Language : Hebrew, Russian, German, Yiddish, Latvian

Documentation from the Latvian State Archive of Audiovisual Documents, Latvia, 1942-2010

The Latvian State Archive of Audiovisual Documents (Latvijas Valsts kinofotofonodokumentu arhivs) encompasses the period from the second half of the 20th century until the present. The Archive was established in 1963 in Riga, Latvia. Since 01 January 2011 the Archive has been reorganized into one body, the National Archives of Latvia (NAL) (as well as the State Audiovisual Archive). The Archive contains approximately 27,000 films, one million photo negatives, and 106,000 audio records that are connected to Latvia and to social, political, and cultural events. Records related to the Holocaust can be found in...

Type of Material : Video, Film

Language : German, Latvian

Documentation from the Latvian State Historical Archives (Latvijas Valsts Vestures Arhivs - LVVA), 1918-1945

National Archives of Latvia, Latvian State Historical Archives (Latvijas Valsts vēstures arhīvs - LVVA), , ЛГИА (Латвийский государственный исторический архив), 1920–1945 Included in the Archives are documents from state and local authorities, Courts of Law, estates, religious organizations, political and public organizations, documents from enterprises and other corporate bodies, and documents of private individuals. The 6,311 archival fonds contain 6,349,095 files. The fonds contain extensive information regarding activities related to the social, political, military, economic and cultural life in Latvia....

Type of Material : Administrative Documentation, List of Jewish Children, List, List of Names, Official Documentation, Lists

Language : Hebrew, Russian, German, Yiddish, Latvian