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Language of Description: English
Country: Czechia

  1. Archiv města Golčův Jeníkov

    • Archives of the Town of Golčův Jeníkov / NAD 1252

    The fonds contains commemorative books, minutes of the municipal board and council meetings, and other documents. The history of the Jewish community after 1850 in this fonds is evidenced by archive materials concerning Jewish associations - the Talmud Torah, the Jewish Association for the Sick, the Ner Tamid Women's Support Society, the Friede Singing Association and the Bachure Chomed Association, the Jewish cemetery (an expansion of the cemetery), the funeral fraternity, Jewish farms - the weaving mill of the Pick family, the winery - the tannery of the Kohn family, and spirits, door-to-...

  2. Archiv města Plzeň – Městský úřad Plzeň (registratura D a měst. úřady)

    • City Archives of Pilsen – Pilsen Municipal Office (D registry and municipal authorities) / NAD 1258/18

    The fonds contains documents of the Municipal Office of Pilsen and municipal authorities and organizations. The fonds contains religious matters or Judaica: Documents and announcements of the Union of Czech Progressive Jews, the Makkabi Jewish physical education association, the Czech-Jewish National Association Pilsen, the Israeli Community Pilsen; collection of religious taxes, Jewish issues (securities, designation of non-Aryan shops, a list of Jewish merchants in Pilsen, 2%-fee from the Aryanization of companies, forced custody of the non-Aryan accounts, prohibitions - e.g. changes of r...

  3. Okresní úřad Jičín I

    • District Office of Jičín I / NAD 1272

    The fonds contains documents of the political administration of the Jičín District such as official books, registry finding aids, files, and accounting material. The general files are divided according to subject groups. Relevant for Jewish issues are mainly these subject groups (in all handling periods): Municipal affairs; Church and religious affairs; Education; Citizenship, domicile, matrimonial and register matters; Police matters; census sheets (1891-1902); Association affairs; census sheets (1891-1902); Matters of associations and political parties; census sheets (1913-1936); Trade af...

  4. Okresní národní výbor Jičín

    • Jičín District National Committee / NAD 1273

    The fonds contains documents of the public administration of the Jičín district. The documents are divided according to subject groups (sections), the most important being the files included in the agenda from 1945-1948: Presidium files; III. Safety; VI. Trades, commerce and industry; from 1949-1950: 2. Internal administration; 3. Education; 5. Economy; and from 1951-1954: 1. Common economic affairs and the managing of the economy; 2. Internal administration. Direct references to Jews can be found in the following documents: Confiscation of Jewish property - applications for the lease of re...

  5. Okresní soud Hořice

    • District Court in Hořice / NAD 1282

    The fonds contains documents of the court administration of the Hořice judicial district. Of particular interest are the files from the post-war period, namely M - Declaration of death from 1945-1949 and D - estate file, concerning the property of the respective Jewish families. Files M - Richard and Emilie Passer, Olga Schanzerová, Karel Beutler, Bedřich, Josef and Markéta Lamm, the Berger family, Emilie and Alice Munkova, Lavecký family, Hugo Lewith, the Kaufmann family, Olga Singerová, Irma and Bedřich Baumann, Richard and Štěpánka Strauss, Alfred Hirsch, Otto Putzker, Gustav Kantor, Ire...

  6. Okresní úřad Hořice

    • District Office of Hořice / NAD 1283

    The fonds contains documents of the political administration of the Hořice district, official books, registry finding aids and files, and accounting material. General files are divided into subject groups. The following subject groups in particular are relevant to Jewish issues: Handling period 1850-1855: 4. Citizenship, domicile right; 8. Police matters; 11. Trades. Handling period 1855-1868: 4. Citizenship, domicile right; 8. Police matters; 9. Construction and fire safety. Handling period 1910-1928: 4. Register matters; 8. Police matters; 9. Construction and fire safety; 15. Trades, indu...

  7. Archiv města Smečno

    • Archives of the Town of Smečno / NAD 129

    The fonds deals with the history of the town of Smečno and contains deeds, official books, auxiliary books, files, and accounting material. The considerably fragmented fonds also contains information about Jews in the town .Files until 1850: inv. no. 161 A complaint of the Hosiery Guild against Jews for their door-to-door stocking trade (1711?), inv. no. 193 Leasing municipal property: b) a grain store to Jew Abraham 1791-1815, d) a teams of horses to Jew Abraham 1796, f) a tavern at the town hall 1841, inv. no. 199, also the maintenance of the army and other military affairs (an excerpt fr...

  8. Okresní úřad Valašské Meziříčí

    • District Office of Valašské Meziříčí / NAD 13

    The fonds contains documents arisen from the activities of the district office: official books, file material and accounting material. Register, religious, and foundation matters, population records, passports, evictions, group D - School and religious matters, Trade matters (no. D, H, IV, VII), commercial and industrial matters, and also census records. Jews are explicitly mentioned in inv. no. 1508 VII, and 1-1500, Investigation of the property of the Jewish religious community in Valašské Meziříčí, the Jewish religious community in Vsetín. (box 962 A); inv. no. 1273 D Jewish affairs - re...

  9. Okresní úřad Plzeň

    • Pilsen District Office / NAD 13

    The fonds contains documents of the political administration of the district of Pilsen, which included the judicial districts of Pilsen, Rokycany and Blovice. The fonds includes the census sheets from 1869, 1880, 1890, 1900 and 1910, the agenda of citizenship, the association cadaster, the register of trades and Judaica: Jewish communities, mainly in Spálené Poříčí, Štěnovice, Radnice, Rokycany, Pilsen, Blovice - correspondence, delimitation of districts, registry matters, election constituencies, list of families, statuses of Jews municipalities, reports on the number of members, maintenan...

  10. Fischer, Josef, Doc., PhDr.

    • Doc. PhDr. Josef Fischer / NAD 1306
    • Národní archiv
    • 1306
    • English
    • 1891-1945
    • Textual material Photographic images 2,80 linear meters

    The personal fonds of Doc. PhDr. Josef Fischer, a prominent Czech philosopher, sociologist, translator, and participant in the domestic anti-Nazi resistance, is a valuable source for understanding his personality and work, for understanding the intellectual and spiritual atmosphere of the interwar Czechoslovakia, and for studying the issues of the domestic non-communist resistance. The documents related to the resistance activities of the author, especially the letters and secret messages of doc. J. Fischer from prison are a valuable source. The fodns also contains the extensive corresponde...

  11. Archiv Syndikátu novinářů, Praha

    • Archive of the Syndicate of Journalists, Prague / NAD 1308
    • Národní archiv
    • 1308
    • English
    • 1877-1998
    • Textual material 244 linear meters

    The archive, founded by the predecessor of the Syndicate of Journalists of the Czech Republic, is an extremely valuable collection of documents resulting from the activities of individual journalistic clubs, associations and organizations. The membership records include the files of members of journalistic organizations who were of Jewish origin or who were later persecuted for being Jewish. The fonds also includes the small estates of several journalists of Jewish origin: František Bauer (7 September 1897, Turnov - 1 October 1967, Prague), Oskar Butter (25 January 1886, Rohozec u Podbořany...

  12. Soukromá obecná škola židovská Strakonice

    • Private Jewish Primary School of Strakonice / NAD 1320

    The fonds contains only a list of children attending the Private Jewish Primary School in Strakonice, probably in the school year of 1906-1907. There is no dating on the material and the time range is determined only by estimation.

  13. 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...

  14. Úřad vrchního zemského rady v Moravské Ostravě

    • Oberlandrat in Mährisch Ostrau
    • Oberlandrát v Moravské Ostravě

  15. Drážďanská banka

    • Dresdner Bank
    • NAD 1335
    • DB
    • Národní archiv
    • 1335
    • English
    • 1871-1944
    • 1.32 linear meters of documents are processed and inventoried, 0.03 linear meters of documents are non-processed and inaccessible.

    The collection consists of minutes of the Executive Board of Dresdner Bank from October 1931 to December 1943. Furthermore, the collections consists of suggestions of the Board (May 1938 - December 1940), minutes of the meetings of the Directors of the Liquidation Commission (April 1935 - May 1938), minutes of the General Assembly (1870-1930), minutes of the Board (1871-1943), minutes of Committee Meetings (1914-1938) and minutes of the Executive Committee (1938-1943). The most relevant Holocaust-related material is the collection of minutes of the Executive Board of Dresdner Bank from Octo...

  16. Tichý, Jaroslav

    • Tichý, Jaroslav / NAD 1340

    The fonds contains personal documents, the biography of the originator, documents on his professional activities (teacher), documents on his resistance activities (World War II), correspondence, documents on social activities (museum, resistance organizations), art works, ethnographic and historical works, study materials on the resistance in the region during WW II, photographs, decorations, diplomas, and other. Jaroslav Tichý was interested in the history of Jews in Chotěboř and its surroundings and in the fate of Jewish families during World War II. In his estate there is a lot of inform...

  17. Vysoká škola umělecko-průmyslová, Praha 1, Alšovo nábř. 8

    • Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design, Prague 1, Alšovo nábř. 8 / NAD 1379

    The fonds contains archive materials for the history of the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague 1, including personal files of employees, in many cases leading Czech artists. The fonds also includes archival materials towards the persecution of the Jewish population during World War II, namely on the prohibition of the private teaching of Jewish children from 1940 (inv. No. 331).

  18. Okresní soud Kladno

    • District Court of Kladno / NAD 1394

    The fonds contains documents originated from the activities of the district court, file material, and the agenda of land registers. Information on Jews can be found especially in inheritance files, where it is possible to search by names of persons. Declarations of death from the war period are also relevant - one can find information on Lidice citizens and Jewish citizens taken into concentration camps. The subsequent inheritance agenda dealing with the inheritance of these murdered citizens is relevant, too. The files can also be found in the handling period of 1924-48, those concerning J...

  19. Archiv města Jičín

    • Archives of the Town of Jičín / NAD 14

    The fonds contains documents of the municipality of Jičín (books, files, and accounting material) and maps the history of the city since the 14th century, which had included the Jewish population since times immemorial. Before 1850, there are mentions of Jews from Jičín especially in municipal books, namely court books, market books, council minutes and protocols, and the registers of the population. From the 19th century, a number of Jewish land books have been preserved in the fonds such as a market book with a list of newly built Jewish houses 1773-1831, books of seats in the synagogue 1...

  20. Okresní úřad Praha-venkov-sever

    • District Office of Praha-venkov-sever / NAD 140

    The fonds contains documents arisen from the activities of the district office. The documents mainly relate to the period of the Second World War. Information on Jews can be found in the presidium files: inv. no. 85, box 21 - discounted railway tickets for persons who were punished for political reasons after 15 March 1939, then Jews or civil servants who lived in a marriage with a Jew or a Jewish half-breed; inv. no. 426 Order of Oberlandrat from 12 March that the mandatory marking of Jews be extended to Jews of Slovak, Croatian and Romanian nationalities. Jews were obliged to wear the obl...