Internment Camp of Svatobořice

Identifier
COLLECTION.SURV.MZA_Brno/127
Language of Description
English
Dates
1 Jan 1942 - 31 Dec 1945
Level of Description
Fonds
Languages
  • German
  • Czech
Source
EHRI Partner

Extent and Medium

1,32 linear meters

Acquisition

Some of the accounting returns were destroyed, in July 1945 the list of internees and 5 deposit books were transferred to the Ministry of the Interior. The remaining larger part of the documents was passed on to the District National Committee in Kyjov. In 1960 they were taken over by District Archives in Hodonín, from where in 1964 the archive department of the Regional Administration of the Ministry of the Interior in Brno, where the fonds was arranged and inventoried. The fonds is kept in the Moravian Provincial Archives in Brno.

Scope and Content

The fonds contains sources about life in the internment camp, lists of internees, their wages, work deployment, correspondence. There were also Jews in the camp temporarily, about whom there may be records primarily in these documents Card Index of Internees (4 boxes) 1942–1944; Card Index of Sick Internees 1944 and Book of Sick Persons 1944, and possibly in other items.

System of Arrangement

The fonds includes Official books and Files.

Finding Aids

  • Ševčík A.: Internační tábor Svatobořice 1942-1945. Inventář, 1964, s. 6, ev.č. 614.

Process Info

  • This archival description was created by the Jewish Museum in Prague in the framework of the cooperation between EHRI and the Yerusha project.

Places

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