Records of permanent keeping.
The records were received at the archives as captured materials in 1945. The inventories were made at the archives in 1953-1954.
Entry added on March 27, 2014 by Rita Bogdanova based on finding aids available at the repository.
The Directorate General for Agriculture’s Department of Food Provision was established in 1941-1944 as a local Latvian self-government and acted under control of Commissar General in Riga. The Department began work in June of 1941 and was subordinate to the Directorate f General or Agriculture; it was responsible for supply of food and forage, as well as purchasing and processing of agricultural goods. It also introduced food cards and food rations.
USHMM RG-18.002M (Latvian Central State Historical Archive (Riga) records)
Original documents are in the custody of The National Archives of Latvia State Historical Archives of Latvia
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983 files
Files are arranged according to the inventories.
Instructions about provisioning of food, clothing, alcohol, forage, food for children; lists of inhabitants of towns, lists of workers who received food cards, etc. 1941-1944. Also contains food rations for prisoners and inmates of concentration camps and for Jewish craftsmen 1941-1943.
Lauksaimniecības ģenerāldirekcijas Pārtikas nodrošināšanas departaments