Okresní úřad Chrudim I

The fonds contains documents of the political administration of the Chrudim district. Jewish affairs can be found in many of the agendas of this administration. The presidium files of the office reflect various phenomena, such as anti-Jewish sentiments, riots in municipalities with Jewish communities, and during the war the agenda concerning the Galician refugees who arrived in the district. There one can find records of Jewish members of the civil service, lists of Jewish emigrants from the Sudetenland, lists of Jewish shops and businesses in the district, and Jews with Polish citizenship. After the Nazi occupation, the Office dealt with the labeling of Jewish shops, the behavior of the Czech population towards Jews, the exclusion of Jews from public administration and their compliance with prohibitions and regulations. Census sheets of individual municipalities of the district have been preserved from 1900, 1910 and 1921. An exception is Chrudim, for which census sheets from 1857 (fragment), 1869, 1880, and 1890 (only part of the district) have also been preserved.The handling period of 1850-1855 contains various files concerning the Jewish population in the following agendas: property; affairs of Jewish religious communities (1853-1854); Jewish associations; construction agenda - plans for the restoration of the burned-out Jewish houses in Přestavlky (1850), and others.The handling period of 1855-1868 contains an agenda for Jewish affairs in the following areas: affairs of municipalities - statements of the Jewish National Community; citizenship, domicile right, registry and marital affairs - keeping Jewish registries in the district (1855-1861), applications for marriage permission (1850-1868); religion and clergy; education and upbringing - matters relating to Jewish schools; construction matters; agriculture, industry and trades, transport, post office, and telegraph.The handling period of 1868-1902 contains numerous Judaica in the agendas: religion and clergy - issues of the Jewish National Community; education and upbringing - lists of non-Catholics and Jews (1874-1876); Jewish schools (1855-1888); health care - a plan to establish a Jewish cemetery in Chrudim (1889-1891); and charitable foundations.The handling period of 1903-1936 - the key Judaica can be found in the category of religion and clergy, which also contains the agendas of individual Jewish communities. Individually, Judaica can be searched by name in other agendas.The handling period of 1937-1945 mainly includes sources for the study of war persecution and the Holocaust. The Office compiled lists of Jewish employees and lawyers, and Jewish and other emigrants (1939). The offenses against the Act on the Organization of Political Administration and trade offenses, which also include Jews (1936-1944), are organized alphabetically. In the section called trades, business, and industry, one may find lists of Jewish trades and others. In the field of social care, it is a list of Jewish flats - reports of police stations from individual municipalities (1941-1942). In the transport affairs section, there is a unique collection of confiscated Jewish driving licenses, which is a unique set of documents with photographs (1925-1941).

The fonds contains file material, official books, maps and plans, and census sheets. The fonds was newly arranged and described in a database system, which also enables full-text search, for example, by names, which are given in applications for travel documents, trade licenses, construction, etc.