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Language of Description: English
Country: Czechia

  1. Ministerstvo spravedlnosti, Praha

    • Ministry of Justice, Prague
    • MS
    • Národní archiv
    • 832
    • English
    • 1918-1953
    • 299,5 linear metres of documents from which 299,5 linear metres are processed and inventoried and 8,5 linear metres are unprocessed. The fonds is partially accessible.

    In the fonds, there are documents and records from the legislative council, public prosecutors and judicial administration department. There are also files containing reports from the criminal department and the prison department. The jewish related documents are in several boxes concerning more the matter of antisemitism in the Czechoslovak republic in the thirties than the matter of holocaust. In the boxes there can be found complaints on Jewish notaries and layers and also their requests for granting permission to work in law practice. There are also lists (dated between years 1919-1945)...

  2. Ministerstvo veřejných prací, Praha

    • Ministry of public works, Prague
    • Ministerium für öffentliche Arbeiten, Prag
    • NAD 1004
    • Národní archiv
    • 1004
    • English
    • 1918-1942
    • The fonds consists out of 490 linear meters of processed and inventoried documents. 28 linear meters are unprocessed and inaccessible.

    The Ministry of Public Works played a minor role in the persecution of the Jews in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. Although it was responsible for the development of infrastructure also in the years of the German occupation during taht Jews were used for Forced labour in this field, it seems that no documents in the collection are referring to that. According to the finding only boxes 2599 and 1649 are dealing with "the Jewish question".

  3. Ministerstvo vnitra - Londýn

    • Ministry of Interior - London
    • MV - L
    • Národní archiv
    • 828
    • English
    • 1940-1945
    • 53,25 linear metres from which 53,25 linear metres of documents are processed and inventoried and 0,0 linear metres are unprocessed. The fonds is partially accessible.

    The fonds consists of documents of the Ministry of Interior and its departments. The state-security department kept records of all Czechoslovak citizens living in the Great Britain during the WWII and provided passports and visas and also their extension or verifications. The administrative and juristic department edited standpoints of the Ministry to the bills. The educational department took care about all matters of the Czechoslovak schools in Great Britain and also in foreign countries. The Ministry of Interior also cooperated with Czechoslovak intelligence service in the matters of sec...

  4. Ministerstvo vnitra I - stará registratura, Praha

    • Ministry of Interior I - old registry, Prague / NAD 1075/2
    • Národní archiv
    • 1075/2
    • English
    • 1918-1944
    • Textual material 965,15 linear meters

    The fonds as a whole provides information on the activities of the state authorities during the first Czechoslovak Republic and the so-called autonomous administration at the beginning of the Nazi occupation. For researchers, the most valuable part is the legislative issues, issues of organization of political administration, federal affairs, elections, and national and autonomous affairs. The fonds also stores valuable material on economic history. Jews are explicitly mentioned in the following documents: reports on the activities of national committees and the memorandum of the Jewish Nat...

  5. Ministerstvo vnitra I., Praha

    • Ministry of Interior I., Prague
    • NAD 1075
    • Národní archiv
    • 1075
    • English
    • 1918-1948
    • The fonds consists out of 2147 linear meters of processed and inventoried documents. 214 linear meters are unprocessed and inaccessible.

    Documents of this fonds illustrate the broad scope of the agenda of the Ministry of Interior. It included, apart from the security and administrative matters, also minority and language issues, citizenship, population register, press and censorship issues, and also the agenda of the then non-existing Ministry of Social Welfare. The most valuable documents can be found mainly in the presidial part the fonds, where the events of the period can be studied from the situation reports of district and provincial authorities. Documents relating to the history of the Holocaust can mainly be found in...

  6. Ministerstvo zahraničních věcí - výstřižkový archiv, Praha

    • Ministry of Foreign Affairs - clippings archive, Prague / NAD 506
    • Národní archiv
    • 506
    • English
    • 1918-1987
    • Textual material 1916,75 linear meters

    The clippings archive, which was established at the request of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, systematically collected clippings mainly on foreign political events. Gradually, a unique collection of thematically arranged newspaper clippings from the Czechoslovak and foreign press from the years 1916-1987 was created. The fonds itself is divided into three parts, the first of which contains clippings from 1916-1944, the second one from 1945-1951 and the third one from 1952-1987. The first part of the fonds contains sets of clippings on Jews in Czechoslovakia from 1920-1944 and on the Jewis...

  7. Ministerstvo zemědělství I - sekretariát protektorátních ministrů, Praha

    • Ministry of Agriculture I - Secretary of the Protectorate Ministers, Prague
    • Landwirtschaftsministerium I - Sektretariat der Protektoratsminister, Prag
    • MZ I
    • NAD 751_11
    • Národní archiv
    • 751_11
    • English
    • 1938-1945
    • The fonds consists out of 10.6 linear meters of processed and inventoried documents.

    The fonds consists of the correspondence of the Ministers of Agriculture in the years of the Protectorate Bohemia and Moravia and a re covering the fields Agriculture, occupation, chambers of agriculture, agricultural labor, taxation, agricultural cooperatives, hunting, hop growing and agricultural statistics. Holocaust relevant material consists mainly out of documents about Aryanization of Jewish property in Agriculture and the exclusion of the Jewish population from specific agricultural products.

  8. 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).

  9. Národní arijská kulturní jednota, Praha

    • National Aryan Cultural Union, Prague
    • Nationalarische Union, Prag
    • NAKJ
    • NAD 677
    • Národní archiv
    • 677
    • English
    • 1939-1945
    • The collection consists out of 1.25 linear meters of processed and inventoried documents which are all accessible.

    The National Aryan Cultural Union (Národní arijská kulturní jednota, NAKJ) was founded on 24th May 1939, officially as a non political society "to improve the situation of the national culture, spirit and peoples behaviour according to modern aryan principles". The association opened 20 branches in the Protectorate Bohemia and Moravia. Together with the fascist movements "Vlajka" (The Flag), "Národní tábor fašistická" (National Fascist Union) and "Fašistická garda" (Fascist guard) they unified in October 1939 to "Český národně socialistický tábor, ČNST" (Czech Nationalsocialist Union). In t...

  10. Národní soud, Praha

    • National Tribunal, Prague
    • Nár. S.
    • NAD 925
    • Národní archiv
    • 925
    • English
    • 1945-1947
    • 23 linear metres of documents from which all are processed and inventoried and accessible.

    The fonds consists of the documents and files of 39 cases (including three cases of honour). Among the defendants, there were (next to the members of the Protectorate government and the state president) leaders of Vlajka (the Flag), of Liga proti Bolševismu (the League against Bolshevism), of Národní obec fašistická (National Fascist Community) at other social movements and Czech journalists participated on the Nazi propaganda. One of the economic leaders tried at the National Tribunal was Jan Antonín Baťa, the owner of Bata group. Jewish related documents in this fonds consists of the anti...

  11. Národní souručenství, Praha

    • National Community, Prague
    • Nationale Gemeinschaft
    • N Sour.
    • Národní archiv
    • 453
    • English
    • 1939-1945
    • The collection consists out of 30,5 linear meters of processed and inventoried documents. 0,62 linear meters are unprocessed and inaccessible.

    The National Community included all male citizens of the Protectorate Bohemia and Moravia. The membership was virtually a formality. The Preparatory Committee was established soon after the occupation, namely 21 March 1939 under President Hacha. The aim was to create a mass organization which would support the Protectorate government. Subsequently on 6th April 1939 the Národní souručenství was declared the only political party in the Protectorate. About ninety percent of the male population of the Protectorate were members of Národní souručenství. The organisation Národní souručenství was a...

  12. Národní výbor města Plzně – Spolkové oddělení

    • National Committee of the City of Pilsen – Department of Associations / NAD 811/39

    The fonds contains a register agenda of associations managed by the Pilsen District Office, then by the Pilsen Police Directorate, then by the Pilsen District National Committee and then by the National Committee of the City of Pilsen. The transfer of the association agenda between the individual originators was linked with the legal development of the position of these originators. Primary Judaica: The Jewish Women Society in Pilsen 1871-1945 (Inv. No. 708), The Association for the Education of Poor Jewish Orphans and Fellow Believers in General 1880-1946 (Inv. No. 710), The Association of...

  13. National Administration of the Assets – Circuit Office of Jihlava

    The fonds contains the files concerning the administration, seizure, post–war restitution and nationalisation of property of Jews and persons of hostile countries, primarily houses in the Jihlava region, western Moravia and certain houses in southern Bohemia. The fonds contains 2 books – list of restitutions and list of real estate. The files are sub–divided into several groups – files concerning general matters, files of returned real estate (classified according to location) and files concerning real estate transferred to the administration of national committees, communal enterprises or ...

  14. Nejvyšší správní soud, Praha

    • Supreme Administrative Court in Prague / NAD 470
    • Národní archiv
    • 470
    • English
    • 1918-1951
    • Textual material 138 linear meters

    The presidium files may concern matters of civil servants. In addition to the legislative documentation, the presidium also retained all significant internal organizational materials that reflect the staffing, management and actions of the Supreme Administrative Court, etc. Very valuable may be their own court decisions, which describe the facts, allow for insight into such details of property and intentions of the complainant that are difficult to achieve elsewhere. Documents directly relating to Jews can also be found in the documents - information on the placement of Jews in Terezín, non...

  15. Německá osídlovací společnost Karlovy Vary

    • Deutsche Ansiedlungsgesellschaft Karlsbad
    • German Settlement society Carlsbad
    • NOS
    • DAG Karlsbad
    • NAD 556
    • Národní archiv
    • 556
    • English
    • 1938-1945
    • The fonds consists out of 241 linear meters of processed and inventoried documents. 1 linear meter of documents is not processed and inventoried and inaccessible.

    In the Sudeten region were since 1938 four different organisations involved into the Nazi-settlement policy. These were the Sächsischen Bauernsiedlung GmbH Dresden, the Schlesische Landgesellschaft mbH Breslau, the Bayerische Bauernsiedlung GmbH and the Deutsche Ansiedlungsgesellschaft which openened in February 1939 an office (Geschäftstelle) in Carlsbad (Karlsbad/Karlovy Vary) and an office in Mährisch Schönberg (Šumperk). The main activity of the Deutsche Ansiedlungsgesellschaft was the settlement of German farmers on farms which belonged to Czechs, Jews or other "foreigners". Czech prop...

  16. Německé státní ministerstvo pro Čechy a Moravu, Praha

    • Deutsches Staatsministerium für Böhmen und Mähren, Prag
    • German State Ministry for Bohemia and Moravia, Prague
    • NSM, former fonds SÚ MV č. 110
    • NAD 1464
    • Národní archiv
    • 1464
    • English
    • 1939-1945
    • 13.6 linear meters of documents, all processed and inventoried.

    Records generated by German occupational institutions (Reichsprotektorat Böhmen und Mähren) and Czech auxiliary agencies dealing with matters of internal security and racial policy, especially anti-Jewish measures. Includes the national affairs and state police catalogue of confiscated art and precious metal objects of Jewish property.

  17. Norimberský soud, Norimberk

    • Nuremberg Trials, Nuremberg
    • NS/Nor.
    • NAD 1463
    • Národní archiv
    • 1463
    • English
    • 1946-1948
    • 71 linear metres of documents, all are processed and inventoried and accessible.

    The fonds consists of stenographic records (250 000 pages) from each of 12 subsequent trials which were as copies submitted to all national delegations participating at the Nuremberg proceedings and investigation. The fonds also consists of several folders with various documents such as hearings of witnesses or given judgements etc. The 12 subsequent trials were: the Doctors' Trial (against 23 medical doctors), the Milch Trial (against the Field Marshal Erhard Milch), the Judges' Trial (against 16 jurists and lawyers), the Pohl Trial (also known as Economics and Administrative Departments o...

  18. NSDAP – Local Group of Letovice

    The fonds contains documents of the local NSDAP Letovice group, inter alia correspondence with lists of Jews and their property.

  19. NSDAP – Local Groups of Břeclav

    The fonds contains sources primarily for the organisation NSDAP and its elements and related associations in Břeclav and Poštorná. The List of Inhabitants of Břeclav with data about nationality (Germans, Czechs, Slovaks, Bulgarians, Poles, Jews) and their membership in Nazi organisations in 1939 concerns the Jews.

  20. NSDAP of Vyškov

    The fonds contains documents of the local NSDAP group from the years 1939–1944. In the original call № there were Jewish matters, court matters: Jewish property, German court in Brno, racial policy. According to the current layout, the documents concerning Jewish matters are split up amongst several thematically arranged binders, for example resettlement of Jews; Centre for Jewish Emigration; Jewish apartments; also many documents concerning Jewish property or its sale or about inhabitants of Jewish race.