Ministry of Social Welfare of the Czechoslovakian Government-in-Exile in London, Repatriation Department (JAF 1007)

Identifier
irn518754
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2006.349
  • RG-48.011M
Dates
1 Jan 1940 - 31 Dec 1945
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Czech
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn518754

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
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