Archival Descriptions

• Ministry of Industry, Trade and Crafts, Prague
• Ministerium für Industrie, Handel und Gewerbe
• MPOŽ
• NAD 903

• Národní archiv
• 903
• English
• 1918-1942
• 453,6 linear metres of documents from which 452 linear meters are processed and inventoried and 1,6 linear meters are not inventoried.
• Updated 5 years ago

The archival fonds contains the records of the Ministry until its dissolution in 1942. Especially important are documents relating to the divestment of the Jewish population from economic life in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia.

• Ministry of Social Welfare - London
• MSP - L
• NAD 1007

• Národní archiv
• 1007
• English
• 1940-1945
• 15,8 linear metres of documents from which 15,5 linear metres are processed and inventoried and 0,3 linear metres unprocessed. The fonds is partially accessible.
• Updated 5 years ago

The fonds includes various administrative correspondence (this correspondence refers to requests for social supports or finding a job opportunity), questionnaires of repatriates, circulars, information booklets, studies, reports and records of the Czechoslovak National Council and its committees. Jewish related documents can be found in various boxes, such as in boxes 58 and 59, there are files of Jewish associations, clubs and Jewish committees including the Federation of Czechoslovak Jews, The Union of Orthodox Jews from Czechoslovakia or Central Board of Jews. There are also documents fr...

• Ministry of Social Welfare, Prague
• MSP

• Národní archiv
• 1028
• English
• 1918-1951
• 631,5 linear meters from which 566 linear meters of documents are processed and inventoried and 65,5 linear meters are unprocessed.
• Updated 8 years ago

The Ministry of Social Welfare was during the years of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia in charge of supporting the Jewish emigration abroad. The Ministry developed guidelines for the employment of Jews in the civil service, their legal status, control of Jewish names, Aryan certificates, Employment Law for Jews, Pension payments to Jews,

• Ministry of Justice, Prague
• MS

• Národní archiv
• 832
• English
• 1918-1953
• 299,5 linear metres of documents from which 299,5 linear metres are processed and inventoried and 8,5 linear metres are unprocessed. The fonds is partially accessible.
• Updated 5 years ago

In the fonds, there are documents and records from the legislative council, public prosecutors and judicial administration department. There are also files containing reports from the criminal department and the prison department. The jewish related documents are in several boxes concerning more the matter of antisemitism in the Czechoslovak republic in the thirties than the matter of holocaust. In the boxes there can be found complaints on Jewish notaries and layers and also their requests for granting permission to work in law practice. There are also lists (dated between years 1919-1945)...

• Ministry of public works, Prague
• Ministerium für öffentliche Arbeiten, Prag
• NAD 1004

• Národní archiv
• 1004
• English
• 1918-1942
• The fonds consists out of 490 linear meters of processed and inventoried documents. 28 linear meters are unprocessed and inaccessible.
• Updated 5 years ago

The Ministry of Public Works played a minor role in the persecution of the Jews in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. Although it was responsible for the development of infrastructure also in the years of the German occupation during taht Jews were used for Forced labour in this field, it seems that no documents in the collection are referring to that. According to the finding only boxes 2599 and 1649 are dealing with "the Jewish question".

• Ministry of Interior - London
• MV - L

• Národní archiv
• 828
• English
• 1940-1945
• 53,25 linear metres from which 53,25 linear metres of documents are processed and inventoried and 0,0 linear metres are unprocessed. The fonds is partially accessible.
• Updated 9 years ago

The fonds consists of documents of the Ministry of Interior and its departments. The state-security department kept records of all Czechoslovak citizens living in the Great Britain during the WWII and provided passports and visas and also their extension or verifications. The administrative and juristic department edited standpoints of the Ministry to the bills. The educational department took care about all matters of the Czechoslovak schools in Great Britain and also in foreign countries. The Ministry of Interior also cooperated with Czechoslovak intelligence service in the matters of sec...

• Ministry of Interior I - old registry, Prague / NAD 1075/2

• Národní archiv
• 1075/2
• English
• 1918-1944
• Textual material 965,15 linear meters
• Updated 2 years ago

The fonds as a whole provides information on the activities of the state authorities during the first Czechoslovak Republic and the so-called autonomous administration at the beginning of the Nazi occupation. For researchers, the most valuable part is the legislative issues, issues of organization of political administration, federal affairs, elections, and national and autonomous affairs. The fonds also stores valuable material on economic history. Jews are explicitly mentioned in the following documents: reports on the activities of national committees and the memorandum of the Jewish Nat...

• Ministry of Interior I., Prague
• NAD 1075

• Národní archiv
• 1075
• English
• 1918-1948
• The fonds consists out of 2147 linear meters of processed and inventoried documents. 214 linear meters are unprocessed and inaccessible.
• Updated 8 years ago

Documents of this fonds illustrate the broad scope of the agenda of the Ministry of Interior. It included, apart from the security and administrative matters, also minority and language issues, citizenship, population register, press and censorship issues, and also the agenda of the then non-existing Ministry of Social Welfare. The most valuable documents can be found mainly in the presidial part the fonds, where the events of the period can be studied from the situation reports of district and provincial authorities. Documents relating to the history of the Holocaust can mainly be found in...

• Ministry of Foreign Affairs - clippings archive, Prague / NAD 506

• Národní archiv
• 506
• English
• 1918-1987
• Textual material 1916,75 linear meters
• Updated 2 years ago

The clippings archive, which was established at the request of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, systematically collected clippings mainly on foreign political events. Gradually, a unique collection of thematically arranged newspaper clippings from the Czechoslovak and foreign press from the years 1916-1987 was created. The fonds itself is divided into three parts, the first of which contains clippings from 1916-1944, the second one from 1945-1951 and the third one from 1952-1987. The first part of the fonds contains sets of clippings on Jews in Czechoslovakia from 1920-1944 and on the Jewis...

• Ministry of Agriculture I - Secretary of the Protectorate Ministers, Prague
• Landwirtschaftsministerium I - Sektretariat der Protektoratsminister, Prag
• MZ I
• NAD 751_11

• Národní archiv
• 751_11
• English
• 1938-1945
• The fonds consists out of 10.6 linear meters of processed and inventoried documents.
• Updated 9 years ago

The fonds consists of the correspondence of the Ministers of Agriculture in the years of the Protectorate Bohemia and Moravia and a re covering the fields Agriculture, occupation, chambers of agriculture, agricultural labor, taxation, agricultural cooperatives, hunting, hop growing and agricultural statistics. Holocaust relevant material consists mainly out of documents about Aryanization of Jewish property in Agriculture and the exclusion of the Jewish population from specific agricultural products.

• National Aryan Cultural Union, Prague
• Nationalarische Union, Prag
• NAKJ
• NAD 677

• Národní archiv
• 677
• English
• 1939-1945
• The collection consists out of 1.25 linear meters of processed and inventoried documents which are all accessible.
• Updated 9 years ago

The National Aryan Cultural Union (Národní arijská kulturní jednota, NAKJ) was founded on 24th May 1939, officially as a non political society "to improve the situation of the national culture, spirit and peoples behaviour according to modern aryan principles". The association opened 20 branches in the Protectorate Bohemia and Moravia. Together with the fascist movements "Vlajka" (The Flag), "Národní tábor fašistická" (National Fascist Union) and "Fašistická garda" (Fascist guard) they unified in October 1939 to "Český národně socialistický tábor, ČNST" (Czech Nationalsocialist Union). In t...

• National Tribunal, Prague
• Nár. S.
• NAD 925

• Národní archiv
• 925
• English
• 1945-1947
• 23 linear metres of documents from which all are processed and inventoried and accessible.
• Updated 8 years ago

The fonds consists of the documents and files of 39 cases (including three cases of honour). Among the defendants, there were (next to the members of the Protectorate government and the state president) leaders of Vlajka (the Flag), of Liga proti Bolševismu (the League against Bolshevism), of Národní obec fašistická (National Fascist Community) at other social movements and Czech journalists participated on the Nazi propaganda. One of the economic leaders tried at the National Tribunal was Jan Antonín Baťa, the owner of Bata group. Jewish related documents in this fonds consists of the anti...

• National Community, Prague
• Nationale Gemeinschaft
• N Sour.

• Národní archiv
• 453
• English
• 1939-1945
• The collection consists out of 30,5 linear meters of processed and inventoried documents. 0,62 linear meters are unprocessed and inaccessible.
• Updated 9 years ago

The National Community included all male citizens of the Protectorate Bohemia and Moravia. The membership was virtually a formality. The Preparatory Committee was established soon after the occupation, namely 21 March 1939 under President Hacha. The aim was to create a mass organization which would support the Protectorate government. Subsequently on 6th April 1939 the Národní souručenství was declared the only political party in the Protectorate. About ninety percent of the male population of the Protectorate were members of Národní souručenství. The organisation Národní souručenství was a...

• Supreme Administrative Court in Prague / NAD 470

• Národní archiv
• 470
• English
• 1918-1951
• Textual material 138 linear meters
• Updated 2 years ago

The presidium files may concern matters of civil servants. In addition to the legislative documentation, the presidium also retained all significant internal organizational materials that reflect the staffing, management and actions of the Supreme Administrative Court, etc. Very valuable may be their own court decisions, which describe the facts, allow for insight into such details of property and intentions of the complainant that are difficult to achieve elsewhere. Documents directly relating to Jews can also be found in the documents - information on the placement of Jews in Terezín, non...

• Deutsche Ansiedlungsgesellschaft Karlsbad
• German Settlement society Carlsbad
• NOS
• DAG Karlsbad
• NAD 556

• Národní archiv
• 556
• English
• 1938-1945
• The fonds consists out of 241 linear meters of processed and inventoried documents. 1 linear meter of documents is not processed and inventoried and inaccessible.
• Updated 9 years ago

In the Sudeten region were since 1938 four different organisations involved into the Nazi-settlement policy. These were the Sächsischen Bauernsiedlung GmbH Dresden, the Schlesische Landgesellschaft mbH Breslau, the Bayerische Bauernsiedlung GmbH and the Deutsche Ansiedlungsgesellschaft which openened in February 1939 an office (Geschäftstelle) in Carlsbad (Karlsbad/Karlovy Vary) and an office in Mährisch Schönberg (Šumperk). The main activity of the Deutsche Ansiedlungsgesellschaft was the settlement of German farmers on farms which belonged to Czechs, Jews or other "foreigners". Czech prop...

• Deutsches Staatsministerium für Böhmen und Mähren, Prag
• German State Ministry for Bohemia and Moravia, Prague
• NSM, former fonds SÚ MV č. 110
• NAD 1464

• Národní archiv
• 1464
• English
• 1939-1945
• 13.6 linear meters of documents, all processed and inventoried.
• Updated 5 years ago

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 the national affairs and state police catalogue of confiscated art and precious metal objects of Jewish property.

• Nuremberg Trials, Nuremberg
• NS/Nor.
• NAD 1463

• Národní archiv
• 1463
• English
• 1946-1948
• 71 linear metres of documents, all are processed and inventoried and accessible.
• Updated 9 years ago

The fonds consists of stenographic records (250 000 pages) from each of 12 subsequent trials which were as copies submitted to all national delegations participating at the Nuremberg proceedings and investigation. The fonds also consists of several folders with various documents such as hearings of witnesses or given judgements etc. The 12 subsequent trials were: the Doctors' Trial (against 23 medical doctors), the Milch Trial (against the Field Marshal Erhard Milch), the Judges' Trial (against 16 jurists and lawyers), the Pohl Trial (also known as Economics and Administrative Departments o...

• Occupation prisoners files
• OVS/KT-OVS

• Národní archiv
• 1077
• English
• 1938-1948
• 160,8 linear metres from which 160,8 linear metres of documents are processed and inventoried and accessible and 41,8 linear metres are unprocessed and probably not accessible.
• Updated 5 years ago

In this collection, there are documents related to Czechoslovak citizens who were imprisoned in German jails and in the concentration camps. There are also files related to (Czechoslovak) Jews, or persons of Jewish nationality, who were gathered and then deported to the Terezín ghetto and the concentration camps. Furthermore in these files, there are information about "death marches" and about post-war repatriation.

• Polizeipräsidium Prag II
• Prague Police Directorate II
• PŘ II
• NAD 1420

• Národní archiv
• 1420
• English
• 1914-1953
• The fonds consists out of 4809,23 linear meters of processed and accessible documents. 4766,23 linear meters are inventoried and accessible documents. 84,34 linear meters are unprocessed and unaccessible.
• Updated 8 years ago

The fonds has informations about police, police authorities, criminal police, street police, passports, arms passports, national security, public safety, national security Corps, National Guard security, national security, police affairs, censorship, confiscation of print, personals, population registers and civil defense

• Committee for Refugee Assistance in Paris
• PVU
• NAD 658
• Comité d’Assistance aux Refugiés

• Národní archiv
• 658
• English
• 1936-1942
• The fonds consists of 47,84 linear meters of processed and inventoried documents. All material is accessible.
• Updated 5 years ago

The fonds Pomocný výbor pro uprchlíky, Paříž contains mainly of the correspondence of refugees, mainly from Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia and Poland, with the Comité d’Assistance aux Refugiés. The correspondence is sorted by surnames of the refugees. Czechoslovak refugees are organized separately. Box 322 contains correspondence of the Comité d’Assistance aux Refugiés with the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee and the other refugee organisations like the Schutzverband deutscher Schriftsteller.