Ministry of Social Welfare of the Czechoslovakian Government-in-Exile in London, Repatriation Department (JAF 1007)
Extent and Medium
38,094 digital images, JPEG
63 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, Czech Republic. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the filmed collection via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum International Archives Project in Oct. 2006.
Scope and Content
Records of the Ministry of Social Welfare, Repatriation Department, London (Ministerstvo sociani pece, Londýn), and Czechoslovak Red Cross dealing with emigration, matters of internal security and racial policy, especially anti-Jewish measures. Includes materials on "Jewish Question", name lists, registration cards and correspondence, Czech organizations in the USA, UN reports on crimes of Nazis, list of camps, descriptions of camps, repatriations from France, emigration to Chile, Cuba, Paraguay, Venezuela, Caracas, Trinidad, USSR, reports on detainment camps, documents and reports on displaced persons camps.
System of Arrangement
Arrangement is thematic: Fond JAF 1007. MSP-L Ministry of Social Welfare, Repatriation Department, London (Ministerstvo sociani pece, Londýn), and Czechoslovak Red Cross; registration cards organized in an alphabetical order
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Copyright Holder: Národní archiv v Praze
Subjects
- Jews--Legal status, laws, etc.--Czechoslovakia.
- World War, 1939-1945--Governments in exile.
- Bohemia and Moravia (Protectorate, 1939-1945)
- World War, 1939-1945--Czechoslovakia.
- Czechoslovakia--Emigration and immigration.
- Czechoslovakia--History--1938-1945.
- Jews--Czechoslovakia--History--20th century.
Genre
- Registers.
- Document
Copies
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum holds copies of Holocaust-relevant archives from Národní archiv v Praze