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Language of Description: English
Country: Czechia

  1. 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.)

  2. 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.)

  3. Amtsgericht (District Court) of Nová Bytřice

    The fonds consists of regular agenda of a civil court. Property rights, estate and custodian files are mainly concerned. Within the criminal agenda the criminal matters of foreign workers are of interest (sign. NS). There are also documents of Inheritance court within the fonds. For researching Jewish history attention should be paid mainly to property rights matters, mainly inheritance matters.

  4. Amtsgericht (District Court) of Slavonice

    The fonds consists of files documenting regular activity of a German Amtsgericht (district court) in a borderland district. They are inheritance and guardian files, files of civil and criminal agenda, book of filing registers. The fonds is quite well preserved. The civil agenda is almost complete, mainly the inheritance files. It is possible to find single items relevant to Jewish history – politically motivated crimes, persecution in occupied territory, border crossing (see lists of prisoners on the Gestapo’s order or the secret police). For researching Jewish history attention needs to be...

  5. Landrat (District Councillor) of Nová Bystřice

    The fonds consists of agenda of the political administration of Nová Bystřice from the time of the German occupation within the scope of the previous District Office (administrative matters, economic affairs, police affairs, German sovereign issues, country defence, agriculture). For researching Jewish history attention needs to be paid to documents concerning economy and financial circumstances (disputes over Jewish property confiscated by representatives of German Reich) and requests for allocation to state offices.

  6. Landrat (District Councillor) of Karlovy Vary

    The fonds includes documents of the political administration of Karlovy Vary and partly of Jáchymov from the period of the Nazi occupation. Jewish issues can only be found sporadically: an official record of the request of Berta Kreisl to manage the Villa Josefa bathhouse the owner of which, Dr. Max Eidinger, a Jew, fled to London (1938) (inv. No. 15), the escape of a Jew and a Czech, two teachers from the driving school in Karlovy Vary (1938) (inv. No. 18), the records of Jewish returnees who left the Sudetenland before the Nazi annexation, a regulation (1938) (inv. No. 21), the escape of ...

  7. Landrat (District Councillor) of Nejdek

    The fonds includes archival materials of the political administration of Nejdek from the period of the German occupation. Jewish issues can be found in the following files: decrees and regulations relating to Jews and Jews of mixed origin (1938-1940) (inv. No. 257), lists of Jews and Jews of mixed origin in municipalities of the district of Nejdek - reports of individual municipal officials (1938-1940) ( inv. No. 258), a list of Jews residing in the district of Nejdek (1939) (inv. No. 259), a list of Jews and Jews of mixed origin residing in the town of Nejdek (1939) (inv. No. 260), keeping...

  8. Amtsgericht (District Court) of Bečov nad Teplou

    The fonds includes documents arising from the activities of the court functioning on the territory of the judicial district of Bečov nad Teplou. Although Judaica are not specifically mentioned in the inventory, they are most likely to be found in boxes 14-18 (forced auctions and forced administration of real estates, 1938-1945) and in boxes 19-26 (seizures of property, 1938-1945).

  9. 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).

  10. 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).

  11. 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).

  12. 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)).

  13. Amtskomissar (Official Commissioner) of the Precinct of Suchá

    The fonds includes documents of the German occupation administration in the territory of Těšínsko, more specifically, in the precinct of Suchá. Jews are mentioned in the following documents: Lists of confiscated shops, factories and flat furnishings in the municipality of Suchá (1939) 1940-1942; Transports of Jews (1939) 1940-1942; Inventories of flats, factories, lands and Jewish property in Dolní, Horní and Prostřední Suchá 1940-1943; Jewish assets 1940. Further information about Jews can be found in the Population register 1940-1943 and House records of the municipality 1943.

  14. Amtsgericht (District Court) of Kašperské Hory

    The fonds contains documents of judicial administration from judicial districts of Kašperské Hory, Sušice and Hartmanice, attached to Germany in the years 1938–1945. The agenda of the Office for Debt Relief contains, among others, lists of Jews, in the years 1940–1941 (box No. 65, No. 10).

  15. Landrat (District Councillor) of Železná Ruda

    The fonds was created during the period of Nazi occupation of border areas of the Domažlice and Klatovy districts and their integration into the system of German administration in 1938-1945. These areas formed Landkreis (district office), which was administered by the Landrat (district councillor) in Železná Ruda. The relevant archival documents include the following: The police agenda contains demolition of synagogues in 1939 (inv. No. 123), the agriculture and forestry agenda contain the temporary administration of Czech and Jewish land from 1938 to 1944 (inv. No. 301).

  16. 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.

  17. 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...

  18. Landrat (District Councillor) of Litoměřice

    The fonds contains the documents of the political administration in the Litoměřice district in 1938-1945. Jewish matters are mentioned in the inventory under the following items: Nazi administration of Czech and Jewish property 1938, Czech and Jewish enterprises, homes, farmhouses 1940, property of the Czechoslovak state, Czechs and Jews 1939 ( G 4), Jewish registers 1939-1942, Jewish registers, Nuremberg Laws 1939-1944 (Ho III and 8 – C Jüd), Jewish first names 1939-1944 (Ho III b 3), the racial protection act 1940-1944 (Ho III c 1), municipal reporting on Jewish cemeteries 1941 (Ho III 11...

  19. Amtsgericht (District Court) of Litoměřice

    The archival fonds comprises documents resulting from the activities of the court operating in the Litoměřice judicial district in the years 1938-1945. The courts documents contain interesting material on Jewish matters, particularly as regards the property matters of persons of Jewish origin. In section VIII – commercial register files, there are the files of firms and companies that had Jewish owners and on forced administration for Jewish businesses; in the collection of deeds for the land books (unarranged part of the fonds) there are transfers for the property of originally Jewish owne...

  20. Amtsgericht (District Court) of Lovosice

    The archival fonds comprises documents resulting from the activities of the court operating in the Lovosice judicial district in 1938-1945. Jewish matters only show up in file L – forced administration of Jewish property 1940-1943 (inv. No. 128).