The following was sent from the Lithuanian consulate in Tilsit, aka Tilžė in Lithuanian, in East Prussia to the Political Department of the Lithuanian Foreign Ministry on November 10, 1938. The second page is a telegram from Königsberg to the Lithuanian Foreign Ministry dated November 12, 1938.

Translation:

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Confidential

Consulate of the Republic of Lithuania
[Letter number:] No. 151/sl

November 10, 1938
Tilsit

To: Political Department
Foreign Ministry
in Kaunas

In the night from November 9 to 10 in Tilsit the windows of Jewish stores were smashed and the synagogue was destroyed. Some of the story displays are already being repaired while others are left abandoned; it is clear the owners are afraid and don’t want to appear in public. Products are still visible on the store shelves while children are still smashing glass. The synagogue is located on an intersection of streets and is somewhat away from other, residential buildings. As of noon, November 10, the interior is still on fire. Several police officers are standing around. There is no sign of fire engines; on the street a single hose is connected to a hydrant and someone wearing a helmet was observed inside the synagogue.

That same night at midnight a unit of SS men and over a dozen civilians assembled at the magistrate’s on market square in Tilsit (four columns of four men).

[signed]
[illegible signature]
consul

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To ForMin in Kaunas

Königsberg 1 39 65 12/11 930
Received November 12, 1938. 9 37 7

Jewish shops smashed products ruined one synagogue burnt down other synagogues and many private apartments demolished money and valuables found in homes confiscated stop Jewish men still under arrest stop Two of our citizens arrested and released same day their situation intolerable but they aren’t leaving afraid to lose all their property there.

Dymša 73.