Occupation prison files: Selected records from the National Archives in Prague (JAF 1007)

Identifier
irn514989
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2004.142
  • RG-48.010M
Dates
1 Jan 1939 - 31 Dec 1945
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • German
  • Czech
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn514989

Extent and Medium

85,2013 digital images, JPEG

221 microfilm reels (digitized), 35 mm

Archival History

Národní archiv v Praze

Acquisition

Forms part of the Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. This archive consists of documentation whose reproduction and/or acquisition was made possible with funding from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.

Source of acquisition is the Národní archiv v Praze (National Archives in Prague), Czech Republic. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the filmed collection via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum International Archives Project in Jan. 2004.

Scope and Content

Records generated by German occupational institutions (Reichsprotektorat Böhmen und Mähren) and Czech auxiliary agencies dealing with matters of internal security and racial policy, especially anti-Jewish measures. Includes materials from the Gestapo prison, Pankrác, personal files of prisoners at Cheb, Czechoslovakia, and in Mirov Prison (near Sumperk, Czechoslovakia), various list of persons deported from the Reichsprotektorat (1941-1945), and catalog cards of concentration camp inmates from Buchenwald, Mauthausen, and Theresienstadt. Bulk of the records contain German deportation cards from Theresienstadt.

System of Arrangement

Arrangement is thematic: Fond JAF 1077. Okupacni vesenske spizy Occupation Prison files (OVS) 2. c̆ásti

Conditions Governing Reproduction

Copyright Holder: Národní archiv v Praze

Corporate Bodies

Subjects

  • Czechoslovakia--History--1938-1945.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Czechoslovakia.
  • Jews--Czechoslovakia--Registers.
  • Concentration camp inmates--Germany--Registers.
  • Czech Republic
  • Bohemia and Moravia (Protectorate, 1939-1945)
  • Prisoners--Czechoslovakia--Registers.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, German.
  • Jews--Czechoslovakia--History--20th century.
  • Jews--Legal status, laws, etc.--Czechoslovakia.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Deportations from Czechoslovakia.
  • Prisons.

Genre

  • Document
  • Registers.
This description is derived directly from structured data provided to EHRI by a partner institution. This collection holding institution considers this description as an accurate reflection of the archival holdings to which it refers at the moment of data transfer.

Copies

  • Národní archiv

    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum holds copies of Holocaust-relevant archives from Národní archiv v Praze