Amtsgericht (District Court) of Volary
Extent and Medium
3, 84 linear meters
Acquisition
The documents of the administrative and civil agendas were taken out from the registry of the District Court of Prachatice and in 1959 passed to the State Archives in Třeboň. The documents of the criminal agenda were taken over by that Archives from the District Prosecutor's Office in Prachatice. The fonds was arranged in 1960 and 1961. In 1981, the fonds was transferred to the State District Archives in Prachatice.
Scope and Content
The fonds includes documents of the Amtsgericht (District Court) of Volary from the period of the Nazi occupation. The preserved files concern the administrative agenda and the judicial agenda, both criminal and civil one (disputes, inheritance, guardianships) from 1938-1945. The criminal files include documents concerning national and racial discrimination, illegal crossing of the border, etc. The fonds has been preserved in fragments.
System of Arrangement
The fonds is divided into: A. Books, A. Files: 1. Administrative files, 2. Files of the judicial agenda (general, civil, and criminal matters), C. Accounting material.
Finding Aids
Flodr J. - Randýsek R. - Reitzová E.: Úřední soud (Amtsgericht) Volary 1938-1945. Inventář, Prachatice 1993, 12 s., ev. č. 9.
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
- Volary