Selected records from the National Archives in Prague. Ministry of Economic Renewal (JAF 786)
Extent and Medium
557 digital images, JPEG
1 microfilm reel (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 Oct. 2006.
Scope and Content
This collection mainly consists of administrative records of the Reichsprotektorat Böhmen und Mähren (Reich Protectorat of Bohemia and Moravia). These include documents on the persecution of Jews, the expropriation of Jewish assets, the deportation of Jews to Theresienstadt, the internal workings of the German administration, forced labor, political prisoners, the Nazi security apparatus, resistance activities, and the like.
System of Arrangement
Arrangement is thematic: Fond JAF 786, MHO-L, Ministerstvo hospodáŕské obnowy (Ministry of Economic Renewal), Londyn (Box 22); and a part of Fond JAF 786, MV-SR, Ministerstvo vinitra-stará registratura (Ministry of Interior-Old registaration) (Box 1, 357, 792, 1318, 2431, 4372)
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Copyright Holder: Národní archiv v Praze
Subjects
- Jewish property--Czechoslovakia--Registers.
- Jews--Legal status, laws, etc.--Czechoslovakia.
- World War, 1939-1945--Deportations from Czechoslovakia.
- Bohemia and Moravia (Protectorate, 1939-1945)
- Jews--Czechoslovakia--History--20th century.
- Executive departments.
- Czech Republic
- Czechoslovakia--History--Orthodox Judaism--1938-1945.
- Romani Genocide, 1939-1945--Czechoslovakia.
Genre
- Registers.
- Document
Copies
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum holds copies of Holocaust-relevant archives from Národní archiv v Praze