Der SS–und Polizeistandartenführer Libau

Der SS–und Polizeistandartenführer Libau 

SS un vietējās policijas priekšnieks Liepājā 

The SS and Police Leader of Libau  

Der SS–und Polizeistandartenführer Libau 

SS un vietējās policijas priekšnieks Liepājā 

The SS and Police Leader of Libau  

262 files 

Guideline for treatment of Jews, including information about interdiction against communication with Jews, mixed marriages, forms to be completed for declarations of Jewish property, record keeping of Jewish property used in barracks, belongings left after executions. Attitude of German soldiers to Jews; the mood of Libau inhabitants after executions of Jews. Arrests of Jews because of violations of the restriction rules; black trade; escaped Jews from ghetto and camps; hidden Jews; arrests of Latvians who helped Jews to hide and issued false papers. Arresting of group of Jews intending to flee to Sweden by boat. Assaults to Jews on the streets; search of Jews and establishing their whereabouts; Jews who committed suicide. Execution of elderly Jews in Libau; shooting of Jews who fled from the prison; number of executed Jews in Libau and Windau and number of prison inmates killed, arrests of Jews and communists. Measures of Schutzpolizei for “evacuation” of 2749 Jews; number of executed Jews in Libau in December (2749). Execution of 30 Jews in the district; execution of 386 Jews in Hasenpoth, and 712 in the district in total (November 1941). Diary of the SS and Police Standortfuehrer Libau (September 20, 1941- November 30, 1943), with entries about shooting of Jews, Roma, and communists in Libau and Windau, looting of Jewish apartments in Talsi, shooting of Jews in Priekule and Vainode, relocation of concentration camp from Libau to Frauenburg (1941 December), shootings of Roma in Hasenpoth (May 21, 1942). Information about establishment of ghetto, its guarding, map of Libau ghetto. Information about forced labour, use of Jews for unskilled work only (August 26, 1942); information about the number of auxiliary Jewish workers, return of Jews working outside ghettos, including interdiction against using vehicles to bring Jews to work and back to ghetto; submission of lists of Jewish workers at Wehrmachsteinheiten und Dienststelle to Seekommandant Libau (June 3, 1943). Newspaper clippings from the “Kurzemes Vārds” with information about using of Jewish property and forced labour. List with addresses of Jews handing in metal. Issuance of identification cards to Jews and registration. Lists of Roma population in Libau in December of 1941; arrests and evacuation of Roma from Libau 1941; prohibition barring Roma from living by the sea or moving to Hasenpoth and Goldingen; execution of Roma in Hasenpoth district; shooting of Roma in Goldingen in May 1942 and in Hasenpoth in June 1942 (135 Roma executed). 

Files are arranged according to the inventories.