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

  1. Náboženská společnost unitářů československých

    • Religious Society of Czechoslovak Unitarians / NAD 1613

    The fonds contains archival materials concerning the religious and cultural history of Czechoslovakia in particular. It also contains sources for Jewish history, namely the correspondence (probably from the World War II) with the Ministry of Education and the Provincial Office in Prague on Jewish employees and the legal status of Jews (Inv. No. 57).

  2. 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 ...

  3. Sebeochrana, všeobecně prospěšné stavební družstvo, s. r. o.

    • Self-Protection, general-benefit construction cooperative, Ltd. / NAD 1785

    The fonds contains sources for the social and building history of the city of Prague in 1921-1949. It also contains materials on Jewish history, namely the issues of several Jewish flats, especially from the period of the occupation (Inv. No. 6-17)

  4. Český svaz protifašistických bojovníků – ústřední výbor, Praha

    • Czech Union of Anti-Fascist Fighters - Central Committee, Prague / NAD 1786
    • Národní archiv
    • 1786
    • English
    • 1969-1990
    • Textual material 353,65 linear meters

    The documents of the Czech Union of Anti-Fascist Fighters (ČSPB) are an important source concerning the resistance and resistance of Czechs and Slovaks in 1914-1918, domestic and foreign anti-Nazi resistance in 1939-1945, including Jewish resistance, and the victims of racial and political persecution, prisoners of Nazi prisons and concentration camps. The fonds has a complicated internal structure, consisting of several separate parts: registry; membership records; documents of the publicity department of the Central Committee of the ČSPB; a memorial, documentary and historical competition...

  5. Státní tajemník u říšského protektora v Čechách a na Moravě, Praha

    • 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.

    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...

  6. Heller Josef - osobní fond

    • Josef Heller / NAD 1853

    The fonds contains documents from the personal fonds of Josef Heller, a Jewish merchant in Mladá Boleslav, who perished in a concentration camp. It contains correspondence and documents, old banknotes, Jewish yellow badges from the time of the Nazi occupation, and posters for theater performances in Mladá Boleslav from the years of 1850-1851.

  7. 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...

  8. Baťova nemocnice, Zlín

    • Baťa Hospital, Zlín / NAD 1910

    A large part of the Baťa hospital staff consisted of Jewish doctors, of whom more than two dozen worked at the hospital at the end of the 1930s. Some of them left Baťa's hospital to set up private surgeries or went to another hospital. However, most of them left the Baťa Hospital because of anti-Jewish measures introduced by the after-Munich Czechoslovakia. The fonds contains documents on the hospital operation, personnel matters, and accounting material. Information on Jews can be found a document recapitulating the result of anti-Jewish measures from 1939: Report on the departure of 23 Je...

  9. 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...

  10. 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...

  11. 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...

  12. 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...

  13. 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...

  14. 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...

  15. 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...

  16. 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...

  17. 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 ...

  18. 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...

  19. 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.

  20. 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.