The Holocaust in the Lithuania provinces in 1941: the Jews massacres in the Kaunas District

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Title:
The Holocaust in the Lithuania provinces in 1941: the Jews massacres in the Kaunas District
Authors:
Bubnys, Arūnas
In the Book:
Holocaust in Lithuania: 1941-1944. P. 287-319.. Vilnius : Genocide and Resistance Research Centre of Lithuania, 2020
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Etninė istorija / Ethnic history; Holokaustas / Holocaust; 1940-1990. Lietuva okupacijų metais; Lietuva (Lithuania); Kaunas. Kauno kraštas; Jonava; Babtai; Čekiškė; Garliava; Kruonis; Pakuonis; Rumšiškės; Seredžius; Veliuona; Vilkija; Zapyškis.
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ENThe author tried to use all available archival sources and literature for this paper. The fonds of the Lithuanian Central State Archives (LCSA) and the Lithuanian Special Archives (LSA) form the basis for the study. For the topic under consideration, certain county governor funds are of particular importance – for example, R-1534: Der Kreischef in Kauen (“Chief of the District of the City of Kaunas”), which contains surviving documents from the Nazi occupation about legal discrimination against Jews and the confiscation and use of their property, statistics on the Jews who lived in the county and the townships, and so on. There are few surviving documents about the physical destruction of Jews. The funds of German and Lithuanian police bodies in the LCSA are also very important for the topic under consideration. Of these, the Litauische Kommandantur in Kaunas (“Military Commandant in Kaunas”) fonds (f. R-1444) and the Der lit. Verbindungs-Offizier für die Schutzmannschaft des Einzeldienstes im Stabe des Kommandeurs der Ordnungspolizei Litauen (“Liaison Officer of the Stationary Regular Police of the Lithuanian General Region under the Chief of the Ordnugspolizei in Lithuania (Kaunas)”) fonds (f. R-683) are of note. These contain orders to the Lithuanian police battalions (including the Kaunas Tautos darbo apsauga (“National Labor Protection”; hereinafter – TDA) Battalion, which “distinguished” itself in the massacre of Jews) and correspondence between Police Department Director Vytautas Reivytis and the county police chiefs regarding the August 1941 campaign for arresting Jews and concentrating them in select locations. [p. 287].

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