Register of the Edvardas Turauskas papers

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Title: Edvardas Turauskas papers

Date (inclusive): 1934-1963

Collection Number: 75015

Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives

Language of Material: Mainly in Lithuanian

Physical Description: 10 manuscript boxes, 1 envelope (4.0 Linear Feet)

Abstract: Correspondence, memoranda, reports, printed matter, clippings, and photographs, relating to the Soviet occupation of Lithuania, 1940-1941, and Lithuanian foreign relations in Europe, 1934-1941. Also available on microfilm (14 reels).

Creator: Turauskas, Edvardas, 1896-1966

Access

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Use

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Acquisition Information

Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 1975.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Edvardas Turauskas Papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

Alternate Forms Available

Also available on microfilm (14 reels)

Biographical Note

Edvardas Turauskas, 1896-1966

1896, October 30	Born, Adriejavas, Lithuania
1918	Elected member of the First Committee of Catholic Action
1919	Entered the service of the Press Office of the Prime Minister
1919	Member of the Lithuanian Diplomatic Mission to Berne
1921	Secretary of the Lithuanian Legation in Berne
1922-23	Chargé d'Affaires of the Lithuanian Legation in Berne
1926	LL. D., University of Paris (grant from the Lithuanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs)
1926	Elected member to the Lithuanian Judicial Commission and Ministry of Foreign Affairs
1926-28	Editor-in-chief of the Catholic Lithuanian magazine Rytas
1926-1934	President of the Lithuanian-French Society in Kaunas
1928	Author, Chretienneté et Nationalité
1928-1934	Director of the section specializing in foreign affairs of the Lithuanian Telegraph Agency Elta
1929	Author, Les Fondements du Droit
1932	Author, Buts et Structure de la S. D. N.
1933	Author, Agences Telegraphiques et Bureaux de Presse
1934-39	Minister Plenipotentiary and Envoy Extraordinary of Lithuania to Prague, Belgrade, and Bucharest
1935	Author, Souveraineté de l'Eglise et de l'Etat
1939-1940	Political Director of the Lithuanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
1940	Founding member of the Catholic Lithuanian daily magazine Zydinis
1940-46	Permanent Lithuanian Delegate to the League of Nations
1945	Author, Le Sort des Pays Baltes
1945-46	Plenipotentiary for Switzerland of the Lithuanian Relief Fund of America

Subjects and Indexing Terms

World War, 1939-1945 -- Lithuania

Czechoslovakia -- Foreign relations -- Lithuania

Latvia -- Foreign relations -- Lithuania

Lithuania -- Foreign relations -- Czechoslovakia

Lithuania -- Foreign relations -- Latvia

Lithuania -- Foreign relations -- Romania

Lithuania -- Foreign relations -- Yugoslavia

Lithuania -- History -- Soviet occupation, 1940-1941

Romania -- Foreign relations -- Lithuania

Yugoslavia -- Foreign relations -- Lithuania

Diplomats -- Lithuania

Smetona, Antanas, 1874-1944

Lithuania. Užsienio reikalų ministerija

Correspondence 1939-1946, 1956-1963

Scope and Contents note

Correspondence, arranged alphabetically by name of correspondent.

box 1, folder 1

Ambrazevicius, J. 1941

box 1, folder 2

Ancevicius, Pranas 1941-1942

box 1, folder 3

Backis, S. A. 1940-1944

box 1, folder 4

Balickas, V. 1941-1943

box 1, folder 5

Balutis, B. K. 1941-1943

box 1, folder 6

Bardony, M. L. de 1941

box 1, folder 7

Bardossy, Laszlo de 1941

box 1, folder 8

Barsanti, Arnaldo 1942

box 1, folder 9

Beleckas, P. J. 1940-1942

box 1, folder 10

Beuve-Mery 1940

box 1, folder 11

Bilmanis, Alfred 1941

box 1, folder 12

Brazenas, Nijole 1956-1963

box 1, folder 13

Bucys, Petras 1940-1944

box 1, folder 14

Budrys, Jonas 1940-1942

box 1, folder 15

Butenas, J. 1942

box 1, folder 16

Carnecki, Mrs. 1941

box 1, folder 17

Deksinys, A. 1940-1941

box 1, folder 18

Draugas (Chicago) 1941

box 1, folder 19

Dymsa, L. 1938-1939

box 1, folder 20

Ehret, Joseph 1941

box 1, folder 21

Galvanauskas, Ernest 1941

box 1, folder 22

Garbaciauskas, S. 1940-1941

box 1, folder 23

Girdvainis, Sutinkam 1941-1942

box 1, folder 24

Grauzinis, K. 1940-1942

box 1, folder 25

Grinius, K. 1940-1941

box 1, folder 26

Grosvald, O. 1940

box 1, folder 27

Gylys, V. 1940-1944

box 1, folder 28

Husum, Carl A. 1941

box 1, folder 29

Journal de Genève, 1940

box 1, folder 30

Jurkunas, J. 1941

box 1, folder 31

Karvelis, P. 1941

box 1, folder 32

Kelistis, P. 1944

box 2, folder 1-3

Klimas, Petras 1940-1944

box 2, folder 4

Lauckas, J. B. 1942

box 2, folder 5

Lester, Sean 1942

box 2, folder 6

Lingis, J. 1940-1941

box 2, folder 7

Lithuanian Legation in Washington, D. C. 1940-1941

box 2, folder 8

Liutkiene, Ponia 1942

box 2, folder 9

Liutkus, P. 1941

box 2, folder 10

Lozoraitis, S. 1941-1942

box 2, folder 11

Matulaitis, K. A. 1941-1942

box 2, folder 12

Mikulskis, J. 1942

box 2, folder 13

Montagne, Madame de la 1940

box 2, folder 14

Motiejunas-Valevicius, Jonas 1942

box 2, folder 15

Navickas, J. 1940

box 2, folder 16

Oeller, Ragnar 1941

box 2, folder 17-18

Pakstas, Kazys 1940-1944

box 2, folder 19

Panstas, Professor 1940

box 2, folder 20

Prunskis, J. 1941

box 2, folder 21

Rabinavicius, Henrikas 1940-1941

box 2, folder 22

Radvila, Princesse 1942-1943

box 2, folder 23

Red Cross, International 1941, 1943-1946

box 2, folder 24

Reklaitis, K. 1942

box 2, folder 25

Rigelis, K. 1940

box 3, folder 1

Saulys, Jurgis 1942

box 3, folder 2-3

Saulys, Jurgis 1942-1944

box 3, folder 4-5

Savickis, Jurgis 1940-1942

box 3, folder 6

Schildt, Heinrich 1942

box 3, folder 7

Seghers, Pierre 1941

box 3, folder 8

Senkus, J. 1942

box 3, folder 9

Simuciui, L. 1941

box 3, folder 10

Simutis, A. 1941-1942

box 3, folder 11

Skipitis, R. 1941-1944

box 3, folder 12-14

Skirpa, Kazys 1939-1943

box 3, folder 15

Smetona, Antanas 1941

box 3, folder 16

Stonciute, Aniceta 1941

box 3, folder 17

Svagzdziui, J. M. 1942

box 3, folder 18

Talmantui, Jurgiui 1941

box 3, folder 19-20

Vaciulaitis, A. 1940-1942

box 3, folder 21

Vaitkevicius, J. 1942

box 3, folder 22-23

Valiukenas, A. 1942-1943

box 3, folder 24

Vokictaiciui, A. 1944

box 3, folder 25

Ylai, S. 1940-1941

box 3, folder 26

Miscellaneous

Subject File 1934-1951

Scope and Contents note

Correspondence, memoranda, reports, minutes of meetings, lists, charts, notes, printed matter, and clippings, arranged alphabetically by subject.

box 3, folder 27

Ancewicz, Francizek, Stalin's State Theory on the Basis of Development of the USSR (in Polish) 1939

box 3, folder 28

Baltic States conferences 1938-1940

box 4, folder 1

Bolshevism and Imperialism (in Lithuanian) undated

box 4, folder 2

History's Forger - A Historical Rectification (in German) undated

box 4, folder 3

Klimas, P., Lithuanian National History (in Lithuanian) undated

box 4, folder 4

Konce, A., report on repatriated Lithuanians (in Lithuanian) 1941

box 4, folder 5

League of Nations, liquidation of 1946

Lithuania

box 4, folder 6

Memorandum on the sovietization of Lithuania, first stage (in Lithuanian) October 1939 - October 1940

Soviet occupation of 1939-1940

box 4, folder 7

General 1939-1940

box 4, folder 8

List of Lithuanians arrested or deported 1939-1940

box 4, folder 9

Societ occupation of 1940

box 4, folder 10-11

Soviet occupation of 1941-1944

box 4, folder 12

Vilnius territory dispute 1939-1940

box 5, folder 1

Vilnius territory dispute 1939-1940

box 5, folder 2

World War II undated

box 5, folder 3

Lithuanian Activists Front undated

box 5, folder 4

Lithuanian Bolshevism (in Lithuanian) undated

box 5, folder 5

Lithuanian Committee of Liberation, (VLIK - Vyriausias Lietuvos Islaisvinimo Komitetas) 1944-1951

box 5, folder 6

Lithuanian Consulate in Klaipeda, Bulletin, No. 9 November 16, 1939

box 5, folder 7

Lithuanian diplomats meetings in Berne 1940-1943

box 5, folder 8

Lithuanian diplomats meetings in Rome 1940

Lithuanian Legation in Czechoslovakia (Prague)

box 5, folder 9

Correspondence, memoranda, reports, etc. 1934

box 5, folder 10-11

Correspondence, memoranda, reports, etc. 1935

box 5, folder 12

Correspondence, memoranda, reports, etc. 1936-1937

box 6, folder 1

Correspondence, memoranda, reports, etc. 1937-1938

Lithuanian Legation in Germany (Berlin)

box 6, folder 2-3

Correspondence, memoranda, reports, etc. 1939

box 6, folder 4-5

Correspondence, memoranda, reports, etc. 1940

box 6, folder 6

Correspondence with the Lithuanian Foreign Office in Kaunas regarding the Jewish population in newly detached provinces, formerly Poland October 1939 - March 1940

box 6, folder 7

Memorandum on postwar Russian emigration (in Lithuanian) 1937

box 6, folder 8

Telegrams 1939-1940

Lithuanian Legation in Italy (Rome)

box 6, folder 9

General 1940-1941

Lithuanian Legation in Latvia

box 7, folder 1

Correspondence, memoranda, reports, etc. 1940

Lithuanian Legations in Berlin, Berne, and Rome (bound)

box 7, folder 2

Correspondence, memoranda, reports, etc. June 1940 - December 1945

Lithuanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Kaunas)

box 7, folder 3-4

Correspondence, memoranda, reports, etc. 1937-1938

box 7, folder 5-7

Correspondence, memoranda, reports, etc. 1938-1940

box 7, folder 8

Lithuanian Political Situation (in German) undated

box 7, folder 9

Lithuanian State Security Department, Bulletins, November 1939 - June 1940

box 7, folder 10

Moscow Intrigue - Lithuanian-USSR Relations (in Lithuanian) 1941

box 8, folder 1-2

Polish-Lithuanian relations 1940-1943

Radvila, Princesse

box 8, folder 3

Library materials

box 8, folder 4

Passport

box 8, folder 5

Reminiscences dictated by Princesse Radvila (in French) 1941-1942

box 8, folder 6

Will 1943

box 8, folder 7

Recollections of the Lithuanian interpreter in the Soviet occupied zone of Berlin, deported to the USSR (in Lithuanian) May 1952 - January 1953

Skirpa, Kazys

box 8, folder 8

Memorandum regarding past and possible future Latvias (in German) April 1941

box 8, folder 9

Memorandum regarding the reinstatement of Lithuania's national autonomy (in German) May 1941

Smetona, Antanas

box 8, folder 10

Recollections of the first days of Lithuanian political emigres in Germany and Switzerland (in Lithuanian) July - December 1940

box 8, folder 11

General 1939

box 8, folder 12

Resignation from the post of President of Lithuania in July 1940 May - December 1940

box 8, folder 13

Soviet Russia Occupation of Lithuania (in Lithuanian) undated

box 8, folder 14

Suduvis, N. E., On That Side of the Iron Curtain - Lithuania (in Lithuanian) 1946

box 9, folder 1

Voldemars, Augustinas, The Catholic Church in the Province of Vilna (in French) April/May 1940

box 9, folder 2

World War II, press excerpts 1939-1944

Speeches and Writings 1939-1940, 1955-1958

Scope and Contents note

Articles, handwritten and typewritten manuscripts, and lectures, by Edvardas Turauskas, arranged alphabetically by title or subject.

box 9, folder 3

Articles written for Lithuanian magazines, Zidinys and Politika (in Lithuanian) 1934-1940

box 9, folder 4

Letters to the Communist Brothers (in Lithuanian) March - December 1958

box 9, folder 5-6

Voice of America, manuscripts and drafts for 1955-1958

box 10, folder 1-2

Voice of America, manuscripts and drafts for 1955-1958

Increment July 1986

box 10, folder 3

Typewritten diary 1956-1958

Photographs

envelope A

42 prints / 1 envelope. 40 photographs depicting atrocities committed by Soviet forces in Lithuania. Included are 2 photographs of Aniceta Stoucinte. June-July 1941