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Language of Description: English
Country: Czechia

  1. Baťa, a. s., Zlín

    • Baťa, a.s., Zlín / NAD 1921

    The fonds contains documents on the operation of the company and its activities in 1894-1948. Information on Jews can be found in individual documents from the 1930s and the first half of the 1940s: personal files of employees of Jewish origin (over 70 pieces entitled "Jewish nationality", "Jewish religion" or "Jew") - including Jewish employees of Zlín companies, Jewish doctors at the Baťa Hospital in Zlín, Jewish employees sent abroad by the management, Jewish employees who later joined the Czechoslovak military units abroad, Jewish employees in the company for forced labor; a name list o...

  2. Archiv obce Hroubovice

    • Archives of Hroubovice / NAD 195

    The fonds contains a fragment of municipal documents, file material and official books. Sources for the local Jewish community can be found there. The chronicles of the municipality until the Second World War have been preserved, in which there are data on the inhabitants moved to concentration camps, as well as on the economic prosperity in the 20th century. The life of the community can also be examined in the minutes of the meetings of the council (1902-1921), whose members were representatives of Jewish families. The families can be searched in the municipal register (1902-1948), the re...

  3. Archiv města Poděbrady

    • Archives of the Town of Poděbrady / NAD 196

    The fonds contains documents arising from the administration of the town of Poděbrady: deeds, official books, file material and accounting material. It also includes census sheets, important for the research of Jewish history. The following documents are relevant for the first half of the 19th century: files of the political department of the Poděbrady municipality office, group VIII. Judaism, tolerance patent (1826 -1850). Specific mentions of Jews can be found in the documents of individual groups (Group I. Regulations, circulars by the regional office and reports on them by the municipal...

  4. Prof. PhDr. Koloman Gajan, DrSc.

    • Prof. PhDr. Koloman Gajan, DrSc. / NAD 1967
    • Národní archiv
    • 1967
    • English
    • 1924-2011
    • Textual material 9,19 linear meters

    The fonds of Prof. Koloman Gajan, PhD, DrSc., a leading Czechoslovak historian, contains mainly documents related to his scientific work: manuscripts of scientific papers, auxiliary study material, studies and articles, lectures, correspondence, and documentation of the author's public activities. The fonds also contains personal documents and biographical material. Among the Judaica in the fonds there is the author's own biography, which contributes to the knowledge of life in the Jewish community in the small village of Hamborek (now Brezovička) in eastern Slovakia, where Koloman Gajan sp...

  5. Pomocná služba Židovské obce náboženské, Plzeň

    • Auxiliary Service of the Jewish Religious Community, Pilsen / NAD 198

    The fonds contains documents of the Auxiliary Service established by the Jewish Religious Community in Pilsen. According to the instructions from its headquarters, it organized an auxiliary service unit, which assisted in the transport of members of the religious community to Terezín. Several documents from this auxiliary service unit have been preserved providing an overview of the organization of transports and fascist crimes. It contains a circular on the organization of assistance in the inclusion of citizens in the transport of 6 January 1942, an explanation of the official order for t...

  6. Kaufmannová, Heda

    • Heda Kaufmannová / NAD 1981
    • Národní archiv
    • 1981
    • English
    • 1905-1981
    • Textual material Photographic images 2,50 linear meters

    The personal archive of the Czech writer, translator and participant in the anti-Nazi domestic resistance, Heda Kaufmann, is an important source for understanding her literary work and resistance activities during the years of the Nazi occupation. However, the documents in the fonds can also contribute to the understanding of the life of the Jewish community in the interwar Czechoslovakia. The fonds contains mainly personal documents, manuscripts of Heda Kaufmannová's works, documentation of her resistance activities, correspondence and photographs. Among the documents in Heda Kaufmannová's...

  7. Okresní úřad Kamenice nad Lipou

    • Kamenice nad Lipou District Office / NAD 2

    The fonds contains state administration documents. In the agenda of the mixed district office, the relevant documents can be found in the call number 2.3.5 Religious and ecclesiastical affairs. Documents on the topic can be found in the handling of 1905-1932 in call numbers 4.1. Register agenda, 5. 4. Church agenda, 8.1. Police matters, passports, war refugees and foreigners, 13. 1. Military matters; in the handling of 1932-1943 in call numbers I.3 President of the Republic, I.11 Statistics, I.12 Citizenship, I.17 Elections to provincial and district councils, I.18 Elections to municipal co...

  8. Okresní úřad Beroun

    • The District Office of Beroun / NAD 2

    The fonds contains documents from the activities of the district office: registry finding aids, files, and accounting material. Mentions of Jews can be found in Group VII, Education, Religious, matrimonial, register and fund matters 1936-1948: inv. no. 61 Jewish religious communities, and group X, Agricultural, hunting, forestry and water management matters inv. no. 468 X/1 Applications for registration of Jewish Property - 67. The presidium files of the District Office in Beroun are the most valuable part of the fonds. The registry contains the subject group Jews. Specifically, they are: d...

  9. Okresní úřad Český Brod

    • District Office of Český Brod / NAD 20

    The fonds contains files of the mixed district office until 1868, the district governor's office, the district office and, since 1945, the district national committee in Český Brod, including official books, files and accounting material. As far as Jewish issues are concerned, the fonds explicitly contains lists of the Jewish population up to 1942, matters of the Jewish community in 1906–1923 (inv. No. 915, call number 5/4), files on the Jewish Church (1923–1939, inv. No. 984, call number 5/4, 1939–1947, inv. No. 1088, call number 5/4), and information on the liquidation of Jewish shops in ...

  10. Okresní národní výbor Jílové; District Office of Praha-venkov-jih (1942 - 1945); The tax office Jílové; District National Committee Jílové; District National Committee Praha-venkov (1945 - 1960)

    • District National Committee of Jílové / NAD 20

    The fonds contains documents arising from activities of the District Office, and later of the National Committee of Jílové. It contains official books, file material and accounting material. Information on Jews can be found in the following documents: inv. no. 242 Evictions of German persons of Jewish origin and religion, call no. III/26-60 (1946); inv. no. 284 Abandoned mortgage claims of Jewish members - handover of written materials, call no. VII/25-4 (1947); inv. no. 307 Redressing wrongs pursuant to Decree No. 53/1945 Sb.: payment of salaries of Jewish recipients to the former center f...

  11. Okresní soud Hlinsko

    • District Court in Hlinsko / NAD 204

    The fonds contains documents of the court administration of the Hlinsko district. Jewish affairs can be found in the following documents: inheritance files (files marked A, D, IV) 1850-1949, index of estates, registers of estates. Also relevant are the files relating to the declarations of death (file marked M) 1946-1949, guardianship files and registers (files marked E, P) 1924-1949.

  12. Okresní národní výbor Pardubice (1945–1949)

    • Pardubice District National Committee (1945–1949) / NAD 209

    The fonds contains documents of the political administration of the Pardubice District: registration and administrative books, files, and accounting material. Jews are explicitly mentioned in the following documents: war damage claims 1945–1949 (1952), support for members of families affected by the Nazi occupation (1943–1945), restitution of Jewish property 1945–1949.

  13. 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...

  14. Archiv obce Puklice

    • Archives of the Municipality of Puklice / NAD 225

    The fonds contains documents of the municipal self-government. Jewish issues can be found in an item from the Holocaust period titled Jewish Cemetery - Puklice 1941-1944.

  15. Archiv města Soběslav

    • Archives of the Town of Soběslav / NAD 240

    The fonds contains documents of the local self-government, deeds, official books, files and accounting material. Information on Jews can be found in individual items in the thematic group Religious life in the town, Jews, 1850-1943; and Persecution of Jews, 1920-1945.

  16. Archiv obce Řevnice

    • Archive of the Municipality of Řevnice / NAD 248

    The municipality archive originated from the activities of municipal administrative bodies. It contains deeds, official books, file material, and accounting material. Information on Jews can be found in the following documents: inv. no. 53 List of inhabitants 1851; inv. no. 57 List of inhabitants; inv. no. 66 List of issued laborers' books 1885–1920; inv. no. 78 Register of door-to-door salesmen 1898–1924; inv. no. 153 Refugees - support 1938–1939; inv. no. 154 Jews 1928–1945; Archive of the municipality of Řevnice - appendix I inv no. 9 Jews (possession of real estate) 1853.

  17. Okresní soud Humpolec

    • District Court in Humpolec / NAD 25

    The fonds contains an agenda arising from the activities of the district court. The agenda is divided according to individual periods into sections A, B, C, and D - land books. The processed part contains the registry of deaths 1853-1897, the estate register 1893-1897, where there may be information on Jews, but only as index records. In the unprocessed part of the fonds, inheritance proceedings are preserved, including the Jewish population. From older periods they have been preserved only partially due to appraisal proceedings - only wills from 1855-1907 have been preserved. The files of ...

  18. Okresní úřad Mnichovo Hradiště

    • District Office of Mnichovo Hradiště / NAD 25

    The fonds contains deeds, official books, file material, accounting material, and also census sheets which contain valuable records of Jews in the region. In general, the relevant items can be found in documents related to the trade agenda and religious issues in individual handling periods. Explicit references to Jews are then in the following documents: inv. no. 491 5/3-5/11 Churches, cemeteries, parishes, religious communities (1878-1892); inv. no. 516 5/25 Jewish religious communities; inv. no. 5/544 Jewish religious communities (1903-1913); inv. no. 771 VII/25 Jewish religious communit...

  19. Okresní soud Kamenice nad Lipou

    • District Court in Kamenice nad Lipou / NAD 26

    The fonds contains the agenda arising from the activities of the district court. The agenda is divided according to individual periods into sections A, B, C, and D - land books. The processed part contains registers of deaths (1850-1912), estate protocols with indexes (1868-1897), lists of last wills 1855-1897, a list of estates (1873-1881), where information about Jews from the district can be found. In the unprocessed part of the fonds, inheritance proceedings have been preserved, including the Jewish population - from older periods only selectively after appraisal proceedings. The proces...

  20. Okresní soud Libáň

    • District Court in Libáň / NAD 266

    The fonds contains documents of the court administration of the Libáň judicial district. Of particular interest are the files from the post-war period, namely files M - Declaration of Dead from 1945-1947, files D - inheritance files concerning the property of the respective Jewish families, files M - Otto Kaufman, Dina Seidlová, Hana Lustigová, Ida Lustigová, Olga Hellerová, Evžen Heller, Marie Hellerová, Jiří Heller, Alena Hellerová and Terezie Hellerová, and files D - the above mentioned families. When searching for a specific inheritance file, it is possible to use the book of auxiliary ...