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Language of Description: English
Country: Czechia

  1. Amtsgericht (District Court) of Kraslice

    The fonds includes documents of the Amtsgericht (District Court) Kraslice from the period of the Nazi German occupation. Relevant information can be found in the agendas of inheritance estates, litigations and criminal proceedings.

  2. Amtsgericht (District Court) of Kaplice

    Documents relating to persons of Jewish origin have survived in fragments: Jewish property, 1940 (file HL 1/40). Files concerning Jewish inhabitants may sometimes be found in other parts of the fonds, too. Searching by call numbers and according to the register is difficult.

  3. Amtsgericht (District Court) of Horní Planá

    The files relating to persons of Jewish origin have survived in fragments: the recovery of debts from Jews who had to flee from the border regions, 1939-1941 (call No. K, inv. No. 20, box 9; call No. M, inv. No. 21, box 9). If the name is not known, searching is difficult. Files concerning Jewish inhabitants may sometimes be found in other parts of the fonds, too.

  4. Amtsgericht (District Court) of Český Krumlov

    The fonds includes materials of the population and inheritance court, and documents of the civil agenda (inheritance files, family law files), seizure of property (seizure of property files and files of court eviction), and the criminal agenda (petty thefts, illegal border crossing). There can be found files of people of Jewish origin in individual sections. The documents of the population and inheritance court in particular show the criminal nature of the Nazi law and justice.

  5. Landrat (District Councillor) of Český Krumlov

    The fonds includes fragments of the District Councillor's office (Landrat) that managed a part of the former district of Český Krumlov. Information on Jewish history can be found in files concerning Jewish property: buying and selling of real estate, 1940-1941 (box 13, call No. L 203/1), Aryanization of Jewish assets, 1938-1942 (box 14, call No. L 601). The register of Jews from 1943 is also an important source (box 15, call No. POL s.n.). Documents concerning the Jewish population may also be found in other parts of the fonds not mentioned here.

  6. Amtsgericht (District Court) of Vyšší Brod

    Files relating to persons of Jewish origin have survived in fragments: the recovery of debts from Jews who had to flee from the border regions, 1939 - 1941 (call No. K, inv. No. 26, box 21), termination of the lease of office premises, 1939 (call No. Mk, inv. No. 26, box 21), the Goldberger Comp. from Černá v Pošumaví, 1940 (call No. II, inv. No. 26, box 21). Files concerning Jewish inhabitants may sometimes be found in other parts of the fonds, too. If the names are not known, searching is difficult.

  7. Landrat (District Councillor) of Frýdlant

    The fonds includes a fraction of the preserved material of the Landrat (District Councillor) Frýdlant, in particular police matters, registry agenda and allocation of apartments to the persons with bombed out dwellings. Jews are mentioned in the file 81, box 6: Glück Fritz Israel Dr., Jewish prosecutor, property, 1942-1945. It is also appropriate to focus on the files labeled Kult that predominantly include religious issues.

  8. Amtsgericht (District Court) of Liberec

    The fonds includes judicial files - files of the company register with prior documents since the second half of the 19th century, the records of termination of companies after 1945, and materials concerning forced auctions and forced administration. The criminal matters include accusations of communist thinking, Jewish origin, and contact with prisoners of war, illegal border crossing, smuggling, speculation with food and sabotage. A very good registry finding aid makes it possible to identify the following criminal files (particulars) concerning the Jewish history: inv. No. 144, box 43: Ho...

  9. Amtsgericht (District Court) of Moravská Ostrava

    The fonds is a valuable source for investigating the Nazi occupation justice in the lowest instance. The court files deal mostly with legal issues of Germans and also, to a large extent, of Poles and Slovaks living within the court's jurisdiction. The fonds also contains death records of the fallen Wehrmacht members of the judicial district, persons of Reich nationality who died in the raids on Ostrava, suicides, drowned persons, and victims of injuries and accidents. An important document of the antifascist resistance is the death records of prisoners in the concentration camps at Mauthaus...

  10. NSDAP, District Headquarters in Moravská Ostrava

    The fonds includes personal files of party members, the correspondence of the district manager, organization of local groups, cells and blocks, questionnaires about Czech businesses, personal files of members of the Deutsche Arbeitsfront, issues of German pupils, lists of women involved in the National Socialist Movement, documents of the district party trial and others. The Jewish inhabitants are mentioned in the questionnaires about Jewish businesses in Přívoz that were filled out in September and October of 1939. There is a total of 17 questionnaires.

  11. Amtsgericht (District Court) of Tanvald

    The fonds contains records arising from the activities of the District Court of Tanvald. Records of interest include civil and criminal case records (books and files) – particularly records relating to cases of inheritance and the seizure of goods. (The collection of documents relating to land registers from 1938–1945 and the land registers themselves are kept at the Cadastral Office for the Liberec region – Cadastral Branch Jablonec nad Nisou.)

  12. Amtsgericht (District Court) of Jablonec nad Nisou

    The fonds contains records arising from the activities of the Amtsgericht (District Court) in Jablonec nad Nisou. Records of interest include civil and criminal case records (books and files) – particularly inheritance records and documents relating to death-related measures and matters relating to the seizure of goods. (The collection of documents relating to land registers from 1938–1945 and the land registers themselves are kept at the Cadastral Office for the Liberec region – Cadastral Branch Jablonec nad Nisou.)

  13. Landrat (District Councillor) of Jablonec nad Nisou

    The fonds contains records of the state authority and of the self-government of the Jablonec nad Nisou district (1938–1945). Jews are referred to directly in inventory records relating to the following: Jewish property – debts (Inv. No. 246) and Jewish and pro-Jewish charity foundations (Inv. No. 247). Also worthy of attention are records in the following groups: district and Landrat – situation reports (Inv. No. 9); communities – matters concerning individual communities (Inv. No. 23) and planning – housing censuses by minicipality (Inv. No. 222). The construction-related records include c...

  14. Landrat (District Councillor) of Jablonné v Podještědí

    The fonds contains documents of the District Councillor’s Office in the territory of the Provincial District of Jablonné v Podještědí (the judicial districts of Jablonné v Podještědí, Zwickau and Mimoň, including the occupied territory of the judicial districts of Mnichovo Hradiště and Bělá pod Bezdězem). The inventory lists the following documents on the history of Jews - report police, alien police, passports: inv. No. 165 Surveillance of Jews, registration of Jews (1938-1941); Trade police: inv. No. 175 Removal of Jews from the German economic life (1938-1942); health care, inheritance a...

  15. Financial Office of Planá

    The fonds includes only fragmentarily preserved purchase agreements, which were send to the tax office (Finanzamt) due to tax assessment. Part of the documents relevant for studying Jewish history was removed from the fonds and stored in the box IV., labelled Occupation Action. Specifically the files concerning Jewish property in Přimda, Bor and Stráž. Further bills of sales are stored in the part of the fonds kept under inv. No. 1.

  16. Gendarmerie station in Rozvadov

    The fonds includes chronologically ordered correspondence and filing registers of a Gendarmerie station from the end of October 1938 until 1942. Some documents concerning Jews were removed from the fonds in the past and stored in box I., labelled Occupation Action. Specifically a list of property of Jews and Czechs dated October 1938, announcement of a visit of a Jewess of mixed origin G. Kohnová in Rozvadov dated 18 November 1941 and files concerning Jewish property in Rozvadov and Hošťka from years 1938 – 1939. Other documents regarding the Jews (mainly the property) are stored in the chr...

  17. Amtsgericht (District Court) of Bochov

    The fonds includes documents arising from the activities of the court functioning on the territory of the Judicial District of Bochov. Although Judaica are not specifically mentioned in the inventory, they are most likely to be found in the box No. 15 (forced auctions of real estates (1943) and seizures of property (1938-1939)).

  18. Amtsgericht (District Court) of Žlutice

    The fonds includes documents arising from the activities of the court functioning on the territory of the Judicial District of Žlutice. Although Judaica are not specified in the inventory, they are most likely to be found in the box No. 30-34 (forced auctions of real estates, 1938-1942), box No. 35 (forced administration of real estates, 1938-1939), and boxes No. 36-46 (seizures of property, 1939-1945 - also indexes, registry finding aids No. 2-4).

  19. Amtsgericht (District Court) of Teplá

    The fonds includes documents arising from the activities of the court functioning on the territory of the Judicial District of Teplá. Although Judaica are not specifically mentioned in the inventory, they are most likely to be found in box No. 5 (forced auctions of real estates, 1938-1943) and in boxes No. 6-7 (seizures of property, 1937-1943).

  20. Amtsgericht (District Court) of Karlovy Vary

    The fonds includes documents arising from the activities of the court functioning on the territory of the Judicial District of Karlovy Vary. Although Judaica are not specifically mentioned in the inventory, they are most likely to be found in boxes No. 117-141 (forced auctions of real estates, 1938-1944), No. 141-158 (forced administration of real estates, 1938-1945) and No. 158-216 (seizures of property, 1938-1945).