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Language of Description: English
Country: Czechia

  1. Okresní soud Pacov

    • District Court in Pacov / NAD 27

    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 of the collection contains registers of deaths (1850-1878), a statement of estates (1885-1897), a register of estates - call number A (1898-1914), and lists of estates (1885-1896), where information on Jews from the district could be found. The unprocessed part of the fonds contains inheritance proceedings, including the Jewish population - from older periods only selectively after appraisal proce...

  2. Okresní soud Pelhřimov I.

    • District Court in Pelhřimov I / NAD 28

    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 of the fonds contains a death register (1851-1855), a list of wills (1857-1868), and inheritance protocols (1855-1897), where information on Jews from the district could be found. The unprocessed part of the fonds contains inheritance proceedings, including the Jewish population - from older periods only selectively after appraisal proceedings. The files of call number D (inheritance) from 1933-194...

  3. Archiv města Hradec Králové

    • Archives of the City of Hradec Králové / NAD 283

    The fonds is very large and covers the entire history of the city of Hradec Králové. It contains official books, deeds, file material and accounting material. Relevant information can be assumed in the inventory numbers 2184 and 2598. This is an extract from the register where Jews are mentioned. The numbers 2184 (restitution of Jewish property) and 2598 deal with their property, i.e. these are documents from the period 1939-1949. It is possible to assume mentions of the Jews in inv. No. 381 (book of inheritance statements and divided estates [1841-1848/1878/]), inv. No. 444 (record book [1...

  4. Okresní soud Počátky

    • District Court in Počátky / NAD 29

    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 unprocessed part of the fonds includes inheritance proceedings, including the Jewish population - from older periods only selectively after appraisal proceedings. The books of estates dealt with in 1864-1897 have been preserved. The files of call number D (inheritance) from 1933-1949 and call number P (guardianship) from 1898-1947 have been completely preserved. The files can be searched on the basis of name list...

  5. Archiv města Benešov

    • Archives of the Town of Benešov / NAD 3

    The fonds contains official books, files, accounting material, and photographs. From the period up to 1850, the archives contain books of decrees including a document by which Jan of Lobkovice waives the right to provide protection to the town of Benešov and to receive inhabitants of the Jewish religion into the town, inv. no. 50 (1848). There are also the censuses of the population in individual periods, especially inv. no. 795, call no. XIX B, Census of the Jewish Population (1850). Jews are explicitly mentioned in the following documents: Church affairs - keeping Jewish registries inv.no...

  6. Okresní úřad Olomouc – venkov

    • District Office of Olomouc – region / NAD 3

    The fonds contains documents of the state administration of the political district of Olomouc, including documents concerning the Jewish religious community in Olomouc from 1920-1936; documents concerning the moving of Jews of foreign nationality to Czechoslovakia from 1936; lists for confiscating Jewish property from 1940-1941. In addition, the fonds includes the implementation of the Government Order on Jews and Jews of Mixed-race in the Public Service, and the files evidencing the confiscation of Jewish assets. The catalog of presidium files from 1918–1937 includes ordinances from 1918–1...

  7. Archiv města Kamenice nad Lipou

    • Archives of the Town of Kamenice nad Lipou / NAD 307

    The fonds contains documents, official books, and files. Jews are explicitly mentioned in the following documents: deprivation of the membership of Jew Leo Wertheimer in the council (inv. No. 328); refugees from Galicia (inv. No. 380); list of Jewish children as summer guests for recovery (inv. No. 383); apartments after Jews (inv. No. 526); lists of Jews (inv. No. 552); Jewish affairs - self-employed persons, teacher of religion, establishment of a canteen, resignation of a head, riots against Jews, kosher butcher's work, regulations regarding the origin and property of Jews 1851-1944 (inv...

  8. Archiv města Strakonice

    • Archives of the Town of Strakonice / NAD 309

    The fonds contains documents of the municipal self-government and the delegated state administration until 1945 (1953), namely deeds, books, file material, and accounting material. In terms of industrial development, the town of Strakonice was among the important towns of southern Bohemia at the end of the 19th, and also during the 20th century. There were 5 factories producing fezzes, which were owned by the Jewish families of Fürth, Stein, Zucker, and Weil. At the beginning of the 20th century, these factories were merged into a joint-stock company based in Vienna and later in Strakonice ...

  9. Městský národní výbor Strakonice

    • Town National Committee of Strakonice / NAD 310

    The fonds contains documents of the town people's administration and delegated state administration, deeds, official books, file material and accounting material. Jewish issues can be found in the following areas: assistance to repatriates 1945, victims of the Gestapo 1942, renouncing Czechoslovak citizenship - A. Zucker 1948, national administration 1945-1949, Jews declared dead 1946-1948.

  10. Československý úřad pro hospodářskou pomoc a obnovu, Praha

    • Czechoslovak Office for Relief and Rehabilitation, Prague
    • UNRRA
    • Národní archiv
    • 313
    • English
    • 1943-1951
    • 28,5 linear metres from which 28,5 linear metres of documents are processed and inventoried and accessible.

    In the fonds there can be found lists and summaries of delivered suplies, reports about the economic situation in the Czechoslovak Republic, various reports from the proceedings of committees. There are also files related to the transport of supllies, another draft plans for relief and rehabilitation of the country (also for the Slovak part of the republic), bills or photographs. The Holocaust or Jewish related documents are in several boxes concerning the matter of repatriation of citizens from the Great Britain. There are lists of persons authorized for the repatriation in April and July ...

  11. Berní správa Jihlava

    • Tax Office of Jihlava / NAD 316

    The fonds contains apartment and house tax files of the city of Jihlava and municipalities, building plans for houses and constructions. Files on the Jewish property and the Aryanization of enterprises date back to the Holocaust.

  12. Berní úřad Jihlava

    • Tax Office of Jihlava / NAD 318

    The fonds contains the agenda of collecting taxes of the judicial district of Jihlava and later of the judicial district of Třešť. Jewish issues can be found in the files from the Holocaust period about the ancestry of 1940-1944, and the estate of K. Löw from Helenín 1930-1945.

  13. Okresní úřad Rakovník I

    • District Office of Rakovník I / NAD 32

    The fonds contains documents arisen from the activities of the Rakovník District Office, i.e. books, files, accounting material, census records, and projects. The file material contains the registry finding aid Jews 1724-1866 (no. 400-407). Trade, church and residence matters are also relevant. File material: Jews 1724-1865 (no. 400-407); Church matters, Jews, 1850-1914 (no. 638-641); Church matters, Jews 1928-1948 (no. 1121-1126); Security and police matters, among others Jews (1928-48 1155-1363); Registers of apostasies and conversions (no. K39-50); Volume LIV, no. VII-1-Jews, Files conce...

  14. Okresní soud Jihlava

    • District Court of Jihlava / NAD 325

    The fonds contains files of the Jihlava District Court. The judicial agenda is divided into civil and criminal. The civil agenda includes disputes, estates and wills, and the criminal agenda mainly misdemeanors. Registry books and name indexes enable orientation in the files. Jewish issues can be found in all groups of documents, especially the estate files (mark D) from 1946–1949, which often concern persons who did not survive the German occupation and for whom inheritance proceedings took place only after the end of the war. Registers of estates and lists of names can be used for orienta...

  15. Archiv města Vsetín

    • Archive of the Town of Vsetín / NAD 331

    The fonds contains documents arisen from the activities of the administrative bodies of the town of Vsetín. It contains deeds, official books, files, and accounting material. Jews are explicitly mentioned in documents from the 18th and 19th centuries. From the 18th century these are: Investigation of Jews Aaron Hercle and Fabián Feitl 1719; inv. no 228 Investigation of Jew Gabriel Hirschl 1720-31; Leasing the Vsetín distillery to Jew Scheuer Bärl 1773-1778; Relevant to the history of Jews in the 19th century are the following documents: inv. no. 258 Permission for a wine bar to Catherine, t...

  16. Okresní úřad Chrudim I

    • District Office of Chrudim I / NAD 337

    The fonds contains documents of the political administration of the Chrudim district. Jewish affairs can be found in many of the agendas of this administration. The presidium files of the office reflect various phenomena, such as anti-Jewish sentiments, riots in municipalities with Jewish communities, and during the war the agenda concerning the Galician refugees who arrived in the district. There one can find records of Jewish members of the civil service, lists of Jewish emigrants from the Sudetenland, lists of Jewish shops and businesses in the district, and Jews with Polish citizenship....

  17. 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).

  18. Okresní úřad Hořovice

    • District Office of Hořovice / NAD 34

    The fonds contains documents arising from the activities of the district administration in Hořovice. It contains official books, files including census records, and accounting material. In general, references to the Jewish population can be found in Group VII Education and enlightenment, Religion, marital registry and fund matters. Registration books: trade agenda and lists of issued domicile certificates (1856-1924); Register of changes of religion 1906-1940. The fonds also includes census records from 1880, 1890, 1900 and 1910. Jews are explicitly mentioned in the following documents: Inv...

  19. Ústředna obchodních a živnostenských komor, Praha

    • Headquarters of Chambers of Commerce and Trade, Prague / NAD 374
    • Národní archiv
    • 374
    • English
    • 1922-1948
    • Textual material 186,10 linear meters

    The fonds includes materials on the organization, development and personnel matters of the Headquarters, minutes from meetings, documents on its legislative work; materials on the economic development in the Czechoslovak Republic and abroad, tax and customs policies, trade fairs and congresses, pricing policy, combating usury, etc.; numerous documents on foreign trade, international trade agreements, reports of Czechoslovak embassies for the Headquarters (situation on local markets, characteristics of individual companies in individual countries). Information on Jews can be specifically fou...

  20. Arizační spisy

    • Aryanization files
    • AS/NSMPO
    • Arizační spisy - Národní správa majetkových podstat
    • NAD 375
    • Národní archiv
    • 375
    • English
    • 1938-1945
    • The collection consists out of 101 linear meters of processed and inventoried documents. 3.5 linear meters are unprocessed and inaccessible.

    The collection Arizační spisy was in the 1950s divided into seven main groups by its origins: 1. "Müller": named after the "Sonderbeauftragter für Ernährungsfragen beim Reichsprotektor", Rudolf Müller. These are documents connected with Jewish food companies (70 boxes). 2. "Regierungspräsident Aussig" (Vládní president Ústí nad Labem): Documents which are connected with the Aryanization in Northern Bohemia from 1938 to 1945 under the administration of the Regierungspräsident Aussig an der Elbe (23 boxes). 3. "Landespräsident Brünn" (Zemský president Brno): Documents which are connected with...