Auswanderungsfonds (Emigration Fund), Brno Office
Extent and Medium
3,72 linear meters
Acquisition
After the liberation the documents were taken over by the administration of seized property. They were transferred to the Moravian Provincial Archives in Brno in 1961, where they arrived in a dilapidated state. In 1965 the fonds was reorganised according to cadastral territories and the house numbers of properties. In the inventory there is also an alphabetical list of Jewish owners of real estate, including Jewish religious community and Jewish schools for Moravia, index of streets and houses.
Scope and Content
The Emigration Fund is important for discovering the size of Jewish home assets, and for drawing a conclusion from it about the scale of Nazi plundering of Jewish property. The files contain contracts about compulsory sale, official valuation of real estate, expressions of owners about state of real estate, extract from land registry, notification of office of land council about establishment of fiduciary, lease agreements, proceedings for the sale of real estate, inventory records and correspondence with tenants and caretakers and others. The frequent official records with date and number of transport to concentration camps constitute a valuable source of information about the persecution of the Jews.
System of Arrangement
The fonds is now arranged according to cadastral territories and the house numbers of properties.
Finding Aids
Burian V.: Vystěhovalecký fond, úřadovna Brno 1939-1945. Inventář, 1965, s. 85, ev.č. 3158.
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
- Brno