Jan Etrich Limited Partnership, Trutnov

The fonds contains records of the Jan Etrich Limited Partnership, Trutnov. These include reports of receivables from and liabilities to Germany with supporting documents (inter alia, relating to the Gross-Rosen sub-camp at Bernartice) from the years 1945–1946; undated time sheets for work done by Jewish female prisoners between 27 September and 10 October at the company's works in Hostinné; a card file of POWs and forced labourers working at the company between 1940 and 1945; weekly time sheets for work done by employees at the spinning mill (including by POWs and Russian labourers) between 1944 and 1945; and employee Arbeitsbuch (Labour Book) for 1939–1945. These sources are important evidence of the exploitation of the labour force by Nazi Germany during the Second World War. Also of interest are documents that testify to the attempts at gaining ownership of the Jewish-owned joint-stock company 'Lnářský a jutařský průmysl' (Flax and Jute Industry) – formerly known as M. and J. Oesterreicher Sons, Hostinné. The archival materials are kept in Box 4.

The fonds is arranged as follows: A) Company records - I) Company management and administration, II) Employees (POWs and prisoners), III) Accounting and reporting, IV) Production, V) Construction documents, VI) Photographs. B) Records relating to the company owners I) Hotel Bílý oř, II) Steinbrecher family.