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type: Institution
buildings: The Lithuanian Central State Archives have two main reading rooms: one where researchers can consult written documents and another where they can consult video and audio documentation. The address of the document reading room is: O. Milašiaus g. 21, Vilnius The address of the audio and video reading room is: O. Milašiaus g. 19, Vilnius
finding aids: Galina Žirikova, *Lietuvos centrinio valstybės archyvo fondai: holokausto Lietuvoje tyrimo šaltinis* (*The Collections of the State Archive of Lithuania: a Source of Research on the Holocaust in Lithuania*), Vilnius, Valstybinis Vilniaus Gaono žydų muziejus, 2011.
general context: The Archives deal with archival documentation created between 1918 and 1990, as well as documents, films, photographs and recordings that are a part of the Lithuanian cultural data base.
sources: Yad Vashem
sources: Dieckmann
sources: Mémorial de la Shoah
sources: Claims Conference
sources: centralarchives.html
opening hours: *Document reading room opening hours* Monday to Thursday: 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Friday: 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. The document reading room is equipped with 31 computerised workstations providing access to the archives' databases. Documents can be ordered by e-mail (lcvaskaitykla@archyvai.lt). The document order form can be found: http://www.archyvai.lt/lt/skaityklos_181.html *Video and audio reading room opening hours* Monday to Thursday: 8 a.m. to 4:45 p.m. Friday: 8 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
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general description: The Lithuanian Central State Archives preserve records of state, local government, enterprises, religious communities, popular organisations, other non-state institutions and individuals, dating from 1918 until 1990. The archives’ department of Video and Audio documentation is the main repository of audiovisual heritage in Lithuania. It preserves moving pictures since 1919, photo negatives since the 1850's, sound recordings since the 1950's, and videotapes since 1988 until the present day. The archives’ holdings comprise of approximately 31,000 linear meters of records. The archive contains 177 collections from the period of Nazi occupation (a total of 72,189 items, i.e. files). They are collections of documents of the civil government, offices, military offices and police stations and their branches, industrial, transport and other companies and offices during the occupation. The archives hold approximately 390,000 photographic documents (middle of the 19th c.–until nowadays). These include photographs, negatives, photographic glass plates, albums, vignettes, slides, digital pictures; works of A. Strauss, J. Čechavičius, A. Fleury,V. Zatorskis; photographic documents by J. Bulhakas, M. Smečechauskas, J. Karazija, J. Miežlaiškis, B. Buračas, A. Varnas, A. Mickus, V. Janiselis. The Soviet period is reflected in the photographic material of the Lithuanian News Agency ELTA and editorial offices of newspapers; numerous collections of documentary photography works of J. Juknevičius, V. Kapočius, A. Žižiūnas. Modern-day documentary photographs are also being accumulated. The archives possess approximately 20,000 audio documents, including sound recordings on gramophone records, magnetic tape, audio cassettes, CDs. The oldest sound recording is a series of songs performed by Lithuanian male quartet from Riga and recorded in Riga in 1907.There are also voice recordings of the presidents of Lithuania A. Smetona and K. Grinius, audio recordings testifying the events of 1940 i…
has or had agent name: Lithuanian Central State Archives
has or had agent name: LCVA
history: The history of the Archive can be divided into four distinct periods: the first, from 1919-1940, during the time of Lithuanian independence following the First World War; the second, from 1941-1944, during the time of the Nazi occupation of Lithuania; the third from 1944-1991, under the Soviet regime; and the fourth and current period, during the time of independence from 1991 to the present. The first period was the time of the foundation and establishment of the government institutions and the formulation of work procedures. During this period, the Constitution was accepted, as well as additional legislation to regulate life in the newly independent nation and preserve national heritage. Thus, the Central National Archives were established in Kaunas, the capital of Lithuania at that time. In 1921, a peace treaty was signed between Soviet Russia and Lithuania facilitating the return to Kaunas of many documents that had been taken to Russia during the Czarist regime. During the second period under the Nazi rule, the archive continued its activities, albeit under certain restrictions. It was subject to Reichskommissariat Ostland, and was only open to visitors of German origin. In fact, the ongoing responsibility for the archives was under the control of the Office for Internal Affairs, which was located in Kaunas. The third period, when the archives were under the Soviet regime, was actually divided in two. In 1940, following the invasion by the Soviet Union, the Archives administration was transferred to Vilnius. From an organisational point of view, the archives were now under the supervision of the NKVD. Confidential documents were transferred to the Soviet Union and afterwards were only partially returned. After the Second World War, the archives came once again under the supervision of the NKVD; in 1960, the responsibility for the archives was transferred to the National Council of Soviet Union Archives. The current period began with the enactment of the Archive…
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