Archival Descriptions

• The Office of the Czechoslovak delegate in the Commission for Prosecution of War Criminals
• ÚD
• NAD 615

• Národní archiv
• 615
• English
• 15 linear metres of documents from which 11 are processed and inventoried, 4 are not processed. The fonds is accessible.
• Updated 5 years ago

The fonds contains the documents and files coming from the office functioning and administration, incomplete records of the International Military Tribunal sessions (hearings and interrogations, various summaries), documentary materials for the trials (such as documents against K. von Neurath or K. H. Frank, documents of investigation and hunt for war criminals), incomplete lists of war criminals, and the correspondence of Bohumil Ečer and his assistant.

• 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...

• 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.
• Updated 5 years ago

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.

• 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 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".

• State Secretary by the Reichsprotector in Bohemia and Moravia, Prague
• Staatssekretӓr beim Reichsprotektor in Böhmen und Mähren, Prag
• ÚŘP-ST
• NAD 1799

• Národní archiv
• 1799
• English
• 1939-1945
• 23 linear meters, all processed and inventoried and fully accessible.
• Updated 5 years ago

The documents in the fonds can be divided into several main thematic groups. There are files related to: 1) the protectoral state administrative, 2) matters of SS and wehrmacht (call-up papers of soldiers), 3) activities of Czechoslovak home and foreign resistance, 4) reports from the investigation of the Assassination of Reinhard Heydrich and worshipping his memory, 5) documents from Reich labor service (Reichsarbeitsdienst, RAD), 6) matters of Protectorate press censorship, 7) personal and family matters of K. H. Frank. There are also Jewish related documents - mostly concerning Aryanizat...

• Special Correspondent of the Czechoslovak Press Office, Nuremberg
• NAD 1023

• Národní archiv
• 1023
• English
• 1945-1949
• 6,2 linear metres of documents from which all are processed and inventoried. The fonds is fully accessible.
• Updated 5 years ago

The fonds consists of the documents and files created by Rostislav Kocourek the only special correspondent working for the Czech Press Office in Nuremberg in 1945 – 1949. The documents contains his correspondence with Bohumil Ečer, the Czechoslovak delegate in the Commission, stenographic records from the trials, hearings of witnesses, information to each defendant, Commission conclusions such as the list and the characteristics of Nazi organizations, crimes committed on the Czechoslovak territory, hand written notes, outlines and drafts etc. Documents were selected to be used for a journal...

• 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.

• 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.
• Updated 5 years ago

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 ...

• 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)...

• 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...

• Židovské muzeum v Praze
• COLLECTION.JMP.SHOAH/DP
• Czech, German, English
• The collection contains 90 boxes of documents (9.79 bm) organised into 79 groups and cannot be considered closed, being added to with new acquisitions. New groups could also gradually be added.
• Updated 8 years ago

This collection originated as a documentation of the persecution and genocide of Jews in the Czech lands excluding the archival materials relating to the history of the Terezín ghetto, which forms a separate collection. The content of the collection comprises originals, copies and transcripts of official documents and personal estates, as well as prints, newspaper clippings, maps, memoirs and a small amount of non-written material. The Documents of Persecution collection is a source of information on Holocaust history of Bohemian and Moravia Jews, and to a lesser extent also Slovakian Jews....

• 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...

• Amt des Reichsprotektors in Böhmen und Mähren, Prag
• Office of the Reichsprotector in Bohemia and Moravia, Prague
• ÚŘP

• Národní archiv
• 1005
• English
• 1939-1945
• 255, 12 linear metres of documents are processed and inventoried and accessible and 50, 52 linear metres are unprocessed and not accessible
• Updated 8 years ago

In the fonds, there are many jewish related documents and for studying the theme of protectorate Jews it is a fundamental fonds. There are documents related generally to the status of Jews in the Protectorate, their legal status in the freelance work or in the state administrative. Valuable documents are related to the Aryanization/Arisierung of the jewish property (jewish companies, trades, traffics, agricultural and forestry companies, timber companies) and its later redistribution, various lists of aryanizated property and lists of posted Treuhänders. There are also documents about the N...

• Ministry of Labour and Social Welfare - repatriation, Prague
• Ministerium für Arbeit und soziale Wohlfahrt - Repatriierung, Prag
• MPSP-R

• Národní archiv
• 1146
• English
• 1938-1951
• 441,62 linear metres from which 441,5 linear metres of documents are processed and inventoried and 0,12 linear metres are unprocessed. The fonds is partially accessible.
• Updated 8 years ago

The fonds contains important documents about refugees, immigration and emigration issues and about the repatriation and reemigration between 1938 and 1950/1. There are documents from each section of the Institute for the Care of Refugees (1938) (socio-medical, evacuation and financial section) i and also from the Institute for the Care of relocated people (functioning from 1940) in the fonds. The most valuable documents are deposited in boxes 16-895, there is an administrative agenda of emigration - applications for the emigration, further more applications for transports. There are card fi...

• NAD 517
• MF I
• Ministry of Finance
• Finanzministerium

• Národní archiv
• 517
• English
• 1918-1945
• The collection consists out of 344 linear meters of processed and inventoried documents. 56,1 linear meters are unprocessed and inaccessible.
• Updated 8 years ago

After the Munich Agreement in September 1938 and the establishment of the so called 2nd Czechoslovak Republic the new government in January 1939 took out a loan in Great Britain, part of which was set off as a support for the emigration of Czech and Moravian Jews to Palestine. On the base of a treaty between the Ministry of Finance and the Jewish Agency for Palestine the Czechoslovak Government supported Jewish emigration out of the country. Between October 1938 and July 1939 about 12 000 Jews left the country, mostly to Palestine. In the time of the Protectorate Bohemia and Moravia the Min...

• 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,

• 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

• Generalkommandant der nichtuniformierten Protektoratspolizei, Prag
• General Commander of the non-uniformed Protectorate Police
• GVNP/GKNP
• NAD 919

• Národní archiv
• 919
• English
• 1942-1945
• The collection consists out of 1,2 linear meters of processed and inventoried documents. 12,2 linear meters are unprocessed and inaccessible.
• Updated 8 years ago

The fonds contents out of different material concerning the Criminal Police in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. Of special interest are the camp rules of different Arbeitserziehungslager (AEL) including Svatobořice (Swatoborschitz), were also family members of emigrated Jews ("jüdisch versippt") were captured.

• GVČ
• Generalkommandant der Gendarmerie, Prag
• NAD 1009
• General Commander of the Gendarmerie

• Národní archiv
• 1009
• English
• 1918-1942
• The collection consists out of 25 linear meters of processed and inventoried documents. 1.9 linear meters are unprocessed and inaccessible.
• Updated 8 years ago

The Gendarmerie in the pre-war Czechoslovak Republic was a militarily organized security force, according to the applicable legal requirements and according to the relevant state authorities to maintain public order and security throughout the territory of Czechoslovakia. It was also responsible for the border control and sent illegal emigrants from Nazi-Germany, under them also Jews, back to Germany. After the establishment of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, the Gendarmerie became part of the occupation administration. Gendarmes were given functions such as auxiliary police, accom...