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Language of Description: English
Language of Description: Multiple
Country: Czechia

  1. 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...

  2. Okresní úřad Nová Paka

    • District Office of Nová Paka / NAD 1192

    The fonds contains documents of the political administration of the Nová Paka district, official books, file material and accounting material. General files are further divided according to subject groups. The following subject groups are relevant to Jewish issues: Handling period 1903-1936: 5. Church and religious affairs; 8. Police matters; census operators. Handling period 1937-1942: III. Security and criminal matters; VI. Trades, commerce, industry; VII. Education, religion, registry and foundation matters; VIII. Social care; IX. Health and veterinary matters; X. Agriculture. Direct ref...

  3. 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...

  4. 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 ...

  5. Okresní soud Jičín

    • District Court in Jičín / NAD 112

    The fonds contains documents of the court administration of the Jičín district. Of particular interest are the files from the post-war period, namely M - the declarations of death from 1945-1952 and D - inheritance files concerning the property of the relevant Jewish families. Files M - the Steiners, the Hellers, the Lustigs, the Hahns, the Hermanns, the Stránskýs, the Poláks, the Schicks, the Neumanns, the Hönigsfelds, the Guths, the Fischers, the Brauns, the Fišls, the Picks, the Kareis, the Netels, the Ornsteins, the Kantors, Vilém Bondy, Josef Hecht, Irena Korteová, Erika Fleischerová. ...

  6. Archiv města Hořice

    • Archives of the Town of Hořice / NAD 780

    The fonds contains documents of the municipality of Hořice: books, file material, accounting material, plans, and seal matrixes. In the period before 1850, there are records of the Hořice Jews mainly in the town books, - court books, books on hereditary leases, minutes of council meetings and protocols. In general, these are records relating to the sale and purchase of houses and land, debts, petty offenses, trade, complaints, and taxes. For the second half of the 18th and the 19th centuries, a number of Jewish land books have been preserved in the fonds - Jewish book containing original co...

  7. 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...

  8. 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...

  9. Okresní úřad Poděbrady

    • District Office of Poděbrady / NAD 189

    The fonds contains documents arising from the activities of the Poděbrady District Office, official books, files and registry finding aids. Information on Jews can be found generally in census sheets. Specific references to Jews can be found in the presidency files. These also contain situation reports from 1939-1942 (boxes 81 and 82). Relevant are also: inv. no. 22/1866 and inv. no. 13/1866 Jews - no riots reported; inv. no. 460, 493, 502/1899 Riots against Jews in Pečky; inv. no. 510/1899 Attacks against the offices and the synagogue in Křinec; inv. no. 530/1899 Anti-Jewish demonstrations...

  10. Úřad říšského protektora v Čechách a na Moravě, Praha

    • 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

    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...

  11. Norimberský soud, Norimberk

    • Nuremberg Trials, Nuremberg
    • NS/Nor.
    • NAD 1463
    • Národní archiv
    • 1463
    • English
    • 1946-1948
    • 71 linear metres of documents, all are processed and inventoried and accessible.

    The fonds consists of stenographic records (250 000 pages) from each of 12 subsequent trials which were as copies submitted to all national delegations participating at the Nuremberg proceedings and investigation. The fonds also consists of several folders with various documents such as hearings of witnesses or given judgements etc. The 12 subsequent trials were: the Doctors' Trial (against 23 medical doctors), the Milch Trial (against the Field Marshal Erhard Milch), the Judges' Trial (against 16 jurists and lawyers), the Pohl Trial (also known as Economics and Administrative Departments o...

  12. Photo Archive Collection

    Stored in the Photo Archive Collection of the Jewish Museum in Prague are several thousand photographs taken between the start of the 1940s and the present day. This includes negatives of various materials and dimensions (from glass plates to colour film) as well as positive prints, of which several thousand (predominantly glass plates and medium format negatives on artificial stock) document the life and activity of the war-time Jewish Community in Prague under the administration of the occupation authorities. Another major unit comprises documentation of Jewish areas in Bohemia, which has...

  13. Německé státní ministerstvo pro Čechy a Moravu, Praha

    • Deutsches Staatsministerium für Böhmen und Mähren, Prag
    • German State Ministry for Bohemia and Moravia, Prague
    • NSM, former fonds SÚ MV č. 110
    • NAD 1464
    • Národní archiv
    • 1464
    • English
    • 1939-1945
    • 13.6 linear meters of documents, all processed and inventoried.

    Records generated by German occupational institutions (Reichsprotektorat Böhmen und Mähren) and Czech auxiliary agencies dealing with matters of internal security and racial policy, especially anti-Jewish measures. Includes the national affairs and state police catalogue of confiscated art and precious metal objects of Jewish property.

  14. 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.

  15. 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...

  16. Matriky židovských náboženských obcí v českých krajích

    • Registers of Births, Marriages and Deaths of Jewish Communities in the Czech Lands
    • HBMa
    • NAD 167
    • Národní archiv
    • 167
    • English
    • 1784-1949
    • The collection consists of 93,8 linear meters of documents, all processed and inventoried.

    Holocaust-related material was categorised into classes as follows: death certificates from Theresienstadt (1941-12-03 to 1943-09-05), recorded deaths in Theresienstadt (in alphabetical order by the names A - Z) and alphabetical card index lists of persons. Requests for additional entries to the registers of death in Theresienstadt were prepared on the basis of death certificates and kept in two series. The first series in alphabetic order consists of actual death records in the register of deaths of Theresienstadt. The second series is arranged numerically and consists of the applications ...

  17. 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...

  18. Okupační vězeňské spisy

    • Occupation prisoners files
    • OVS/KT-OVS
    • Národní archiv
    • 1077
    • English
    • 1938-1948
    • 160,8 linear metres from which 160,8 linear metres of documents are processed and inventoried and accessible and 41,8 linear metres are unprocessed and probably not accessible.

    In this collection, there are documents related to Czechoslovak citizens who were imprisoned in German jails and in the concentration camps. There are also files related to (Czechoslovak) Jews, or persons of Jewish nationality, who were gathered and then deported to the Terezín ghetto and the concentration camps. Furthermore in these files, there are information about "death marches" and about post-war repatriation.

  19. Ministerstvo sociální péče, Praha

    • 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.

    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,

  20. Ministerstvo práce a sociální péče - repatriace, Praha

    • 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.

    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...