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Language of Description: English
Country: Czechia

  1. Agricultural Office of Opava

    The fonds of the Kulturamt Troppau (Agricultural Office of Opava) has survived lacunae. The fonds contains only files consisting of lists of land property, documents associated with trusteeship (in German Treuhandverwaltung) and other associated paperwork. Inter alia, there are 2 lists kept here of Jewish land property in the competence circuit of the office with data about the area of plots and names and owners and with a note about the then fate of those lands (1939).

  2. Oberlandrat (Supreme District Councillor) of Olomouc

    Despite the fact that this concerns a fonds of an important administrative institution from the period of German occupation, unfortunately only fragments of its documents have been preserved. The fonds contains documents relating in particular to Aryanisation of Jewish property. This specifically concerns materials documenting records, expropriation and administration of Jewish property (card files) including various lists of Jewish enterprises, 1939–1942 (box№ 10–15, inv. №19, call № Wirtsch II).

  3. Amtsanwalt (District Prosecutor´s Office) of Karlovy Vary

    Archival records in the fonds are a valuable source relating to development of the German Reich justice system in 1938–1945. For study of Jewish history, it is possible in particular to use files documenting a wide range of cases of looting of Jewish property in Karlovy Vary after having been abandoned by the owners during the autumn of 1938 and spring of 1939, this in particular concerning inv. № 12, box № 1–7 and inv. № 13, box № 28–34 (criminal files ref. 1 PLs and 2 PLs, 1939).

  4. Head of the Zivilverwaltung (Civilian Administration) of Brno

    The fonds contains files from 15.3.–15.4.1939. There are very few political documents in the fonds, one reason being that some of the files of the head of civilian administration were transferred to the fonds B 251 Reichs Protector, office Moravia in Brno. Following records concerning Jews are deposited in the fonds: Price control, Jewish property; Brno-venkov (German commissioner in Židlochovice and Kounice, situation in Oslavany, Jews in Ivančice); Moravská Ostrava (Vítkovice steelworks, influence of Jews, supply problems, appointment of commissioners in towns, unclear matters with Poland...

  5. Amtsgericht (District Court) of Vimperk

    The fonds includes documents of the Amtsgericht (District Court) of Vimperk from the period of the German occupation. The preserved files concern administrative and judicial agendas, both criminal and civil ones (disputes, seizures of property, inheritance, and guardianships), and the agenda of land books from 1938-1945. The criminal files include documents concerning national and racial discrimination, illegal crossing of the border, etc. Except for the agenda of inheritance court the fonds has been well preserved.

  6. Reichs Prosecutor´s Office of Liberec

    The fonds contains files of the judicial agenda from the district of the Land Court Liberec from 1938–1945. General and collective files are preserved in the fonds, only fragments of staff files. Proper files of the criminal agenda capture cases relating to murders, suicides, robberies, moral and property offences, major road and rail accidents, unauthorised contact with prisoners etc. Individual cases relating to the Jewish population can be traced in the registers and indices (inv. № 1–148).

  7. 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.)

  8. Landgericht (Reichs Regional Court) of Linz – branch in Český Krumlov

    In the files of the criminal, civil and administrative agendas there is only one case concerning a Jewish defendant: No. Vr 243/41 (Blaha Sara, housewife, from Benešov nad Černou, accused of not using her first Jewish name and not getting her Kennkart (personal ID)).

  9. Jewish Religious Community of Benešov

    The fond includes the statutes of the Jewish Religious Community from 1896 and the articles of the Burial Society, lists of community members, financial files (including the pauper care files) and synagogue reconstruction files. Most of the preserved documents dates to 1900 – 1925, only the Burial Society register of currency receipt copies reaches 1940. Besides that the Burial Society founded a cash book for income and outcome records which was used from 1940 to May 1941.

  10. Landratsamt (District Councillor's Office) of Vrchlabí

    This fonds contains records of the Vrchlabí-based Landrat (district councillor). The following material relates to Jewish issues: correspondence with the Gestapo concerning Jews, 1940 (Inv. No. 5, Box 3); an official census of inhabitants and enumeration of factories, 1939 (Inv. No. 16, Box 33); weddings and racial policy, 1939-1945 (Inv. No. 18, Boxes 43-44A); anti-Jewish measures, 1938–1939 (Inv. No. 49, Box 489). It is highly likely that there are also records relating to Jews in other parts of the fonds that are not mentioned here. Records in the fonds that relate to elements hostile to...

  11. Jewish Religious Community of Hodonín

    This fonds contains the community's statutes (1921–1922, 1930), meeting minutes (kept until 1940), financial files, a contract for the construction of a new synagogue (1694), synagogue seats records, and burial society records.

  12. Landgericht (Reichs Regional Court) of Most

    The fonds contains documents from the activity of the regional court in the period of the occupation. Documents are preserved in the fonds relating to liquidation of Jewish companies. This concerns court files: Bankruptcies from 1939–1942 (inv. № 256, 257), Bankruptcy settlement from 1940–1941 (inv. № 258). Ownership changes of the companies of individuals and joint stock companies are documented by books of company records held according to Amtsgerichts (district courts) from 1939–1945 (inv. № 273-295).

  13. Amtsanwalt (District Prosecutor´s Office) of Cheb

    Archival records in the fonds are a valuable source relating to development of the German Reich justice system in 1938–1945. For study of Jewish history, it is possible in particular to use files documenting a wide range of cases of looting of Jewish property in the Cheb region after having been abandoned by the owners during the autumn of 1938 and spring of 1939, this in particular concerning inv. № 39, box № 3–15 (criminal files ref. PLs, 1939).

  14. 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.

  15. 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.

  16. Reichs Archive in Liberec

    The fonds of the Reichs Archives Liberec, in department H – Archival matters holds the file Jewish archival records from 1939–1941 (inv. № 112). This relates to the fate of Jewish registers from the Sudetenland district (locations Jablonec nad Nisou, Mikulov, Pohořelice, Rumburk, Šafov, Teplice and Trutnov) and their storage in archives and at local offices. The file also includes requests by offices for statements from Jewish registers.

  17. 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.

  18. Amtsgericht (District Court) of Trutnov

    The archival fonds of the Amtsgericht (district court) in Trutnov contains judicial administration records and includes material concerning Jewish issues. Box 5 has material relating to Jewish lawyers, the liquidation of Jewish law offices and the appointment of lawyers in 1938–1944. Box 25 has various records, for example relating to the appointments of commissioners for Jewish industrial plants in 1940–1941.

  19. Archiv obce Puklice

    • Archives of the Municipality of Puklice / NAD 225

    The fonds contains documents of the municipal self-government. Jewish issues can be found in an item from the Holocaust period titled Jewish Cemetery - Puklice 1941-1944.

  20. Jewish Religious Community of Dvůr Králové

    This fonds contains the community's statutes including amendments (1862–1897, 1932), meeting minutes, a memorial book, rules of procedure, a community membership list, financial files, documents and accounts for the construction of a synagogue and cemetery, and a community photograph album from the early 1940s.