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  1. Ministerstvo financí I, Praha

    • 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.

    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...

  2. 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,

  3. Policejní ředitelství Praha II

    • 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.

    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

  4. Generální velitel neuniformované protektorátní policie, Praha

    • 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.

    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.

  5. Generální velitel četnictva, Praha

    • 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.

    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...

  6. Коллекция документов "Евреи СССР в тылу и эвакуации"

    • Collection of documents "USSR Jews in Evacuation"
    • Kollektsiya dokumentov "Jevreji SSSR v tylu i evakuacii"

    The collection consists of the material concerning personal stories of the Jewish families who were able to escape country to the East in the first days of the war. There are various correspondence between soldiers of the Soviet Red Army and family members in evacuation, also personal photos and photos taken in evacuation; personal documents; memories about life in evacuation, diaries and notebooks with memories.

  7. Коллекция документов "Праведники Народов Мира"

    • Collection of documents "Righteous Among the Nations"
    • Kollektsiya dokumentov "Pravedniki Narodov Mira"

    The collection stores the material about rescuing of Jews during the Holocaust in the territory of the Russian Federation, Byelorussia, Ukraine, Lithuania, Latvia. The material consists of memories of the rescuers and interviews with them, photos of the rescuers and rescued people. Also there are documents (medals and diplomas also) and correspondence concerning Righteous Among the Nation award; articles and publications with the personal stories of the rescue.

  8. Коллекция документов "Холокост на территории России"

    • Collection of documents "Holocaust in the Territory of Russia"
    • Kollektsiya dokumentov "Holokost na teritorii Rossiyi"

    The collection consists of the documents on the history of the Holocaust in Russian Federation from 1941 to 1944: memories compiled after the war (mostly by relatives), correspondence between relatives and these who later were killed, photos (pre-war family and personal photos of victims of the Holocaust), personal documents (mostly various certificates), the memories of the extermination of Jews, various correspondence. The collection includes the archival certificates about mass extermination of Jews in the Rostov district, a list of the killed Jews in Klintzy (Bryansk district). Collecte...

  9. Коллекция документов "Холокост на территории Европы"

    • Collection of documents "Holocaust in the Territory of Europe"
    • Kollektsiya dokumentov "Holokost na teritorii Evropy"

    The collection consists of the documents on the history of the Holocaust in Europe: photos (pre-war family and personal photos of victims of the Holocaust), personal documents (ID, CV, certificates and etc.), the memories of the extermination of Jews, various correspondence. The collection includes the documents of the Sobibor extermination camp (the plan of the Sobibor extermination camp on 14 October 1943, compiled by A. Pecherskiy in 1944. A. Pecherskiy was a leader of the uprising in the Sobibor extermination camp and in 1972 he wrote a book "Revolt in Sobibor"). A letter in Polish of M...

  10. Коллекция документов "Холокост на территории СССР"

    • Collection of documents "Holocaust in the Territory of the USSR"
    • Kollektsiya dokumentov "Holokost na teritorii SSSR"

    The collection consists of the documents on the history of the Holocaust in Ukraine, Moldavia, Byelarussia, Baltic States (with borders until June 22, 1941): photos (pre-war family and personal photos of victims of the Holocaust), personal documents (ID, CV, certificates and etc., also documents about the fate of Jewish families), the memories about the extermination of Jews, various correspondence, the copies of the photos of the mass exterminations in the territory of the USSR, the copies of the Nazi propaganda, the copies of the documents about Babi Yar and card index about periodical ne...

  11. Atrinkti dokumentai iš Gosudarstvennij Archiv Rossijskoj Federacii (GARF)

    • Selected Documents from the State Archive of the Russian Federation
    • Atrinkti dokumentai iš Valstybinio Rusijos Federacijos archyvo

    Protocols of the witnesses of the mass killings in the Vilnius and Suvalkai area, in the Vilnius ghetto, Paneriai mass killing site. Memoirs of the Jewish survivors (members of the corpses burning brigade in Paneriai) and IX Fort in Kaunas. Protocols, acts, and other documentation compiled by the Extraordinary Soviet Commission (1944). First list of Jews living in Lithuania (compiled on September 1944). Total 1195 persons (data includes names, names of both parents, birth date). Second list of Jewish residents in Lithuania (27 September 1944). Total 468 persons (name, surname, place of birth).

  12. Zbirka fotografija iz Drugog svjetskog rata

    • Collection of Photographs from the Second World War

  13. Budisavljević Diana

    The collection contains copies of various documents (mainly the list of dead and missing children and women during World War II); copies of documents on "The Action" conducted by Mrs. D. Budisavljević; parts of the translation of her diary relating to the Action; Card index for persons and institutions mentioned in the diary, and materials related to the publication of her Diary.

  14. Records of the Geneva office of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee

    The Geneva files of 1945-1954 constitute the documentary record of JDC’s global overseas operations in the immediate post-World War II (WWII) period. These files testify to the complex and multi-faceted nature of JDC’s global rescue and relief efforts, primarily focused on: resettling Jewish refugees and Holocaust survivors around the world; facilitating the renewal of Jewish life in Europe; rebuilding Jewish communal institutions; and providing sustaining aid to the remnants of Jewish communities worldwide. The collection documents JDC’s work in over 70 countries. These records provide num...

  15. Akta miasta Otwocka

    • Files of the town of Otwock

    The collection contains i.a. regulations and general orders concerning matters such as forced labour and resettlement of the Jews, taxes, materials connected with the expropriation of Jewish real estate in the “Aryan” quarter by a special administrative office, and many documents related to statistics, population records and control, lists of real properties, a personnel list of the Getto-Polizei and instructions for it, and a range of official letters and correspondence on matters concerning the Jews of Otwock. The body of material is relatively extensive and thus sufficient to reconstruct...

  16. Starostwo Miejskie w Warszawie

    • Stadthauptmannschaft Warschau
    • Office of the Warsaw City Governor,

    The collection contains i.a. birth and death statistics, weekly reports of the chairman of the Judenrat (1941), the dispute over the boundaries of the ghetto, forced labour, Jewish mutual aid, the fight against typhus, applications for passes, and cases of illegal trade and smuggling

  17. The Adolf Abraham Berman Collection: Polish-Jewish Underground Welfare Activity in Occupied Warsaw and Outlying Cities and in Camps, 1943–1945

    The Adolf Abraham Berman collection contains underground press and publications and official press printed after the failure of the Polish uprising; official and forged personal documents; overviews, reports, correspondences, radio broadcasts transcripts, operation and work plans, orders, order of battle and casualty lists; diaries, memoirs, testimonies, speeches, essays and manifestos; aid requests and financial support confirmations and receipts. The collection also contains material related to the Kielce pogrom of July 1946.

  18. Okružni narodni odbor Varaždin

    • The People's Committee of Varaždin County

  19. Narodni odbor Grada Koprivnica

    • The People's Committee of the City of Koprivnica

  20. Narodni odbor Kotara Varaždin

    • The People's Committee of Varaždin County