Selected records from the Czech Ministry of Interior Archive

Identifier
irn501840
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1997.A.0331
  • RG-48.006
Dates
1 Jan 1939 - 31 Dec 1942, 1 Jan 1939 - 31 Dec 1994
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Czech
  • German
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn501840

Extent and Medium

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Archival History

Czech Republic. Ministerstvo vnitra.

Acquisition

Source of acquisition is the Czech Ministry of Interior, which selected the documents from the holdings of the Czech State Archives. They were conveyed to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum via the Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1994.

Scope and Content

Contains 46 categories of photocopied documents from 1939 to 1942 relating to the treatment of Roma and Sinti during the German occupation of Czechoslovakia; the organization of police forces; and the design, construction, and operation of the Roma camps at Lety and Hodonin. Also included are articles and excerpts from publications from 1969 to 1994 on the above-mentioned topics.

System of Arrangement

The collection is divided into 46 parts, most of which are in numbered paper folders with identitying notations

Conditions Governing Reproduction

Copyright Holder: Czech Republic. Ministerstvo vnitra.

Subjects

  • Romanies.

Genre

  • Document
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