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Language of Description: English
Country: Czechia

  1. Headquarters of Uniformierteregierungspolizei (Uniformed Government Police) in Brno (1919) 1942–1945

    The fonds contains written material from the time of the occupation, and it is preserved in a fragmentary fashion. It contains the documents of the Headquarters of Uniformed Government Police and Headquarters of the Police Company. Here reports about transports of Jews primarily concern the Jewish matter. They are these documents: Damage to posters, distribution of leaflets, damage to company signs, the painting of anti–Jewish slogans, anti–German graffiti etc. 1939–1943; Jews – orders and regulations about presence and behaviour of Jews in public rooms and parks, marking of Jewish shops an...

  2. Ministerstvo hospodářství a práce, Praha

    • Ministerium für Wirtschaft und Arbeit, Prag
    • MHP
    • NAD 782
    • Ministry of Economy and Work
    • Národní archiv
    • 782
    • English
    • 1942-1945
    • 109 linear meters of documents, all are processed and inventoried.

    The Ministry of Economy and Work (Ministerstvo hospodářství a práce) was a result of the Heydrich´s reform of the Protectorate administration in 1942. In this period falls the total change of the Protectorate into a war economy. As the Aryazation of Jewish property was untill 1942 almost finished and the deportation of Bohemian and Moravian Jews to Ghetto Theresienstadt (Terezín) and other Ghettos and camps in the east started in 1941 most Holocaust relevant material in this collection is connected to the status of "mixed" Jews or Jews who were married to a non Jewish partner.

  3. Archiv města Ledeč nad Sázavou

    • Archives of the Town of Ledeč nad Sázavou / NAD 1146

    The fonds contains deeds, books of patents, land registers, town finances, minutes of the council board and council, court documents (also disputes with Jewish residents). From the period up to 1848, a rich archive of the Jewish community has been preserved. The period since 1848: Jewish community, rabbis, teachers of religion, members of the community, fees, Czech-Jewish movement. The period of 1938-1945: decrees against Jews, mixed marriage of Deputy Mayor Josef Fenik.

  4. Regierungspräsident (Office of the Governing President) of Ústí nad Labem

    Files are preserved in the fonds from the Regierungspräsident (Office of the Governing President) of Ústí nad Labem, in which it is possible to follow the task of this Nazi office of mid-level instance from Landrats (district councillors) right through to municipal offices very well. Of importance for study of Jewish history and in particular persecution of the Jews are the situation reports from 1938–1943 (inv. № 2); from the agenda of Department I b Volk – Care for the population: Census, 1939 (inv. № 153); from the agenda of Department Ib Sta – Nationality: Jews and persons of mixed race...

  5. Okresní národní výbor Praha-jih

    • District National Committee of Praha-jih / NAD 21

    The fonds originated from activities of the District National Committee of Praha-venkov-jih and Praha-jih in 1945-1960. It contains documents arisen from activities of the district office. Information on Jews can be found in the following documents: inv. no. 106 Conversions of religion from 1945–1946 and 1948; inv. no. 235 Secret files: Jewish associations - investigation, no. 102/1951 (1951); inv. no. 268 Confiscation, call no. II/2 (1945–1948); inv. no. 271 Concentration camps on the territory of the Czechoslovak Republic during the occupation, call no. III/1-210 (1947); inv. no. 309 Jewi...

  6. Archiv města Telč

    • Archives of the Town of Telč / NAD 1179

    The fonds has been preserved in fragments and contains documents of the local government (documents, official books, file material). The Jewish community, too, is represented by several documents. From the Holocaust period it is the correspondence, orders, and decrees from 1939-1944.

  7. Okresní soud Chrudim

    • District Court in Chrudim / NAD 339

    The fonds contains documents of the judicial administration of the Chrudim district. Jewish affairs can be found in the following documents: inheritance files (files marked A, D) 1850-1935, index of estates, and registers of estates. Also relevant are the files concerning the declarations of death (file marked M) 1945–1948, guardianship files and registers (files marked E, P).

  8. Česká liga proti bolševismu, Praha

    • Czech League against Bolshevism
    • ČLB
    • ČLpB
    • Národní archiv
    • 739
    • English
    • 1944-1945
    • The collection consists out of 0,5 linear meters of processed and inventoried documents.

    The official reason for the founding of the Czech League against Bolshevism (Česká liga proti bolševismu) was the Czechoslovak-Soviet treaty of alliance in December 1943 signed by Edvard Beneš in Moscow. The Founding General Meeting of the Czech League against Bolshevism (Česká liga proti bolševismu) was held 23rd January 1944 in Prague. The organization reported directly to the Ministry of Education and Propaganda, led by Emanuel Moravec. Since its founding until January 1945 the Liga organized 231 public speeches and lectures. The Propaganda of the Czech League against Bolshevism was not ...

  9. Oberfinanzpräsident (Supreme Financial President) of Opava

    The fonds contains sources concerning the organisation and structure of financial administration in the relevant administrative circuit during the period 1938–1945. The file groups O 5200–O 5400, which contain materials from 1940–1944, are fundamental for the study of Jewish history. Specifically they are the directives and decrees for the use of seized Jewish and other enemy property and for the transfer of works of art from this property to the Reich Regional Museum in Opava (inv. № 91, call number 5200, box 2077), intimations of yields of Reich Minister of Finance from 4. 11. and 9. 12. ...

  10. Okresní národní výbor Praha-západ

    • District National Committee of Praha-západ / NAD 790

    The fonds arose from the activities of the District National Committee of Prague-West. Contains books, file material and accounting material. Information on Jews can be found in the following documents: inv. no. 313 National administration (since 1945); inv. no. 316 Restitution - allocation of property, call no. 566 (1949–1950); inv. no. 553 Overview of the religiosity of the district of Praha-západ, call no. 290 (1954); inv. no. 557 Libuš-rejection of kosher, call no. 295.9 (1952).

  11. Generální velitel uniformované protektorátní policie, Praha

    • General Commander of the Uniformed Protectorate Police, Prague
    • Generalkommandant der uniformierten Protektoratspolizei, Prag
    • NAD 912
    • GVČ
    • Národní archiv
    • 912
    • English
    • 1942-1945
    • The collection consists out of 14,55 linear meters of processed and inventoried documents. 9,15 linear meters are unprocessed and inaccessible.

    The documents in the collection of the Generalkommandant der uniformierten Protektoratspolizei, Prag are mostly of organisational nature. During the deportation of the Jews in the Bohemian lands to the Theresienstadt Ghetto members of the Uniformed police forces supported Gestapo and SS. The Uniformed police forces also formed a special unit for guarding the prisoners in the Theresienstadt Ghetto. Also the Roma camps Lety u Písku and Hodonín u Kunštátu were guarded by Uniformed Police forces.

  12. Landrat (District Councillor) of Mariánské Lázně

    The fonds contains the fragmentary surviving documents from the activity of the office of German state administration on the territory of the Sudetenland for the district of Mariánské Lázně. In the part of the fonds including books there is a list of businesses and people subject to supervision of the area control office from the years 1938–1945 (inv. № 1), also books concerning the payment of social benefits from 1941–1945 (inv. № 2-6), list of names for book about family relations (Familienbuch) from 1938 (inv. № 7) and two accounting books. Out of the files, only a small fraction of acco...

  13. Archiv města Jistebnice

    • Archives of the Town of Jistebnice / NAD 489

    The fonds contains documents of the local self-government, official books, files and accounting material. Information on Jews can be found in documents from 1628-1945. Before 1850, these only individual items (a printed patent against the Jews 1725; a testimony of the Jewish population in a dispute 1726; the interrogation of Eliška, a Jew, accused of selling stolen goods 1727). After 1850, these are registry matters, and from the period of WW II the persecution of Jews.

  14. Československý červený kříž, Londýn

    • Czechoslovak Red Cross, London
    • ČsČK-L
    • NAD 634
    • Národní archiv
    • 634
    • English
    • 1940-1945
    • The collection consists of 25 linear meters of processed and inventoried documents.

    The collection primarily consists of organisational material of the Czechoslovak Red Cross, including its main offices in London and its branches, as well as documents concerning their tasks. The annual report provides information about the medical and social care of Czechoslovak citizens in exile. The most important Holocaust-related documents in the collection of the Czechoslovak Red Cross - London include the card files and directories of Czechoslovak Jews who were interned in concentration camps erected shortly after the Reichskristallnacht in the Sudetengau, of Jews who were interned i...

  15. Sbírka Československé školy ve Velké Británii

    • Collection of the Czechoslovak school in the United Kingdom
    • Národní archiv
    • 1578
    • English
    • 1941-1945
    • 1,3 linear metres of which 1,3 linear metres inventoried. The fonds is partially accessible.

    The collection consist of originals and copies of the various documents, such as copies of identity documents, birth certificates, writing pads, textbooks, school certificates, photographs, messages from teachers to parents (or to the legal representatives of children), memoirs, school notes, presentations and newspapers. These materials also relate to more than 670 mostly Jewish children saved by the Kindertransporte organised by Nicolas Winton and other rescuers.

  16. Landgericht (Reichs Regional Court) of Trutnov

    The fonds contains documents of justice administration from the occupation period and sorted in accordance with individual cases that the court addressed, and offers a view into the functioning of the then administration of justice. Unfortunately, documents of racial segregation were not preserved. Nevertheless, the Jews are mentioned in other writings that deal with divorce proceedings of mixed marriages of Germans with Jews. Jews are explicitly mentioned in the following cases: Ernestine Schanzer seeks annulment of marriage to a Jew James Schanzer, from Javornik, part of the village of Ru...

  17. Landrat (District Councillor) of Litoměřice

    The fonds contains the documents of the political administration in the Litoměřice district in 1938-1945. Jewish matters are mentioned in the inventory under the following items: Nazi administration of Czech and Jewish property 1938, Czech and Jewish enterprises, homes, farmhouses 1940, property of the Czechoslovak state, Czechs and Jews 1939 ( G 4), Jewish registers 1939-1942, Jewish registers, Nuremberg Laws 1939-1944 (Ho III and 8 – C Jüd), Jewish first names 1939-1944 (Ho III b 3), the racial protection act 1940-1944 (Ho III c 1), municipal reporting on Jewish cemeteries 1941 (Ho III 11...

  18. Ministerstvo zemědělství I - sekretariát protektorátních ministrů, Praha

    • 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.

    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.

  19. Okresní národní výbor Vlašim

    • District National Committee in Vlašim / NAD 1325

    The fonds contains books, files, and accounting material arising from the activities of the Vlašim District National Committee. Jews are explicitly mentioned in: 1945-1948 (1949) VI/1 National administrations - general provisions, circulars, regulations, checks and remuneration of national administrators; national administration of Jewish property; returning property to the original owners; the national administration of the Auersperg estate in Vlašim; national administration of the Český Šternberk estate (inv. no. 246). The following may also be relevant: Trades, commerce, industry - trade...

  20. Gestapo of Brno

    The basis for the fonds consists of the surviving part of the registry office of the Brno branch of the Gestapo and all surviving rural stations in Moravia. The fonds contains the files of secured and investigated persons denounced for various reasons (listening to the radio, seditious speech against the Reich, sabotage etc.), records from actions conducted by the Gestapo against illegal resistance groups and actions conducted against Jews. The files also contain several hundred records about placement and escapes of persons from concentration, labour and other types of camps. Other records...