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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. 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...

  3. Police President in Ústi nad Labem - Department of Teplice-Šanov

    The fonds contains some essential materials concerning the history of the Nazi occupation in 1939-1945 and the work of the police in 1938-1945. Jewish-related documents can be found in the following files: Passports and visa matters for Jews 1939-1941 (inv. No. 66), Identity cards compulsorily carried by Jews 1941 (inv. No. 86), Jewish family names 1940-1941 (inv. No. 161), Police surveillance of Jews 1940-1942 (inv. No. 497). Records of Jews may also be expected in the following files: Cancelling trade establishments 1939-1935 (inv. No. 428), Religious organizations and their prohibition 1...

  4. Landrat (District Councillor) of Bílina

    The fonds contains documents concerning the political administration of the Bílina district in 1938-1945. The Jewish population is mentioned in the following files: Registering Jewish property 1938-1939 (inv. No. 38), the Aryanization - Jews in the Bílina district 1939 (inv. No. 50), Jewish synagogues - the canceled ones, trades for Jews 1939 (inv. No. 52), Religious communities 1939 (inv. No. 63), Criminal police - Jewish half-breeds in the ranks of the police 1940-1945 (inv. No. 66).

  5. Landrat (District Councillor) of Teplice

    The fonds contains documents of the political administration of the Teplice district in 1938-1945. Documents concerning the Jewish population can be found in the following files: Registration of Jewish property 1939 (inv. No. 32), Register of Jews 1941-1942 (inv. No. 40), Jewish land property in the Teplice district 1939 (inv. No. 81), List of Jewish land property in the district of Usti nad Labem 1941-1942 (inv. No. 82), Jewish property 1940-1942 (inv. No. 83), Lists of fugitive Jews and Czechs, 1939-1940 (inv. No. 98). Sources concerning the given topic can also be expected in the followi...

  6. Cristallum - Arnold Schönbek and Comp., the Production and Export of Crystal Glass and Reflecting Telescopes, Splzov (Spilzow, Splzow)

    Fragmentarily preserved fonds contains customary business documents (business license, accounting, list of employees). One of the partners Isidor Blum was of Jewish origin, with reference thereto in inv. No. 7 Resignation of Jewish affiliates from the company in 1938-1939.

  7. Amtsgericht (District Court) of Broumov

    The fonds consist of archival fonds of the Broumov District Judicial Administration (for the cities of Broumov, Meziměstí and their vicinity) in the Reichsgau Sudetenland (Sudeten Region)of the German Reich. The inventory includes very brief entries. There are no specific mentions of Jews, the local Jewish community of the Broumov District was small, organization-wise it belonged to the Náchod religious community. Possible mentions may be probably found in the inheritance agenda.

  8. Amtsgericht (District Court) of Teplice nad Metují

    The fonds consist of archival fonds of the Teplice nad Metují District Court Administration (for the towns of Teplice nad Metují and Stárkov and their vicinity) in the Reichsgau Sudetenland (Sudeten Region). The inventory includes very brief entries. There are no specific mentions of Jews, the local Jewish community of the Teplice and Stárkov Districts was small, organization-wise it belonged to the Náchod religious community. Possible mentions may be probably found in the inheritance agenda. See inv. No. 25, the only specific entry: Taussigová Berta, inheritance and foundation 1920 - 1941.

  9. Landrat (District Coucillor) of Most

    Information about the Jewish history in the given region can be found in the file labelled A complaint against the German administrators - swindles with Czech and Jewish properties (1940).

  10. Amtsgericht (District Court) of Teplice

    The fonds includes documents of the court functioning in the territory of the judicial district of Teplice in 1938-1945. Jewish issues are not expressly mentioned in finding aids but they can be expected in the following sources: civil disputes 1939-1940 (inv. No. 3-6), forced administration of property 1939-1943 (inv. No. 13-15), bankruptcies 1939- 1941 (inv. No. 19), private lawsuits 1938-1944 (inv. No. 20-24), and minor offenses 1938-1943 (inv. No. 40-42).

  11. Landrat (District Councillor) of Broumov

    The fonds includes archival fonds of political administration of Broumov District (Broumov and Teplice nad Metují Judicial Districts in the period of the Nazi occupation. The inventory consists of only very brief records, in them among others mentions, see inv. No. 104 (sign. II-C/60) Anti-Jewish demonstrations 1938, inv. No. 114 (sign. Pol-305/4) Jewish Kennkarten (personal ID) 1940, inv. No. 121 (sign. Pol-Komm) Commissary administration of Jewish businesses, inv. No. 134 (sign. Pol-Kom/Ltg II) Aryanization of Jewish property – property transfers 1939 – 1945.

  12. 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.)

  13. Amtsgericht (District Court) of Most

    Information about persons of Jewish origin can be found especially in the files marked 5 K (forced auction, 1939-1944), 5 L (forced administration, 1939-1942), 6 Cs (e.g. reports against Jews, 1940-1941), and the 7 HRA files which concern the removal of Jewish companies from the Commercial Register (Most, Horní Litvínov, 1938-1944).

  14. 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...

  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. Company Samuel and Berta Lederer, Shop in Všeruby, Forced Trustee Wolfgang Müller

    The fonds contains the business correspondence and written documents concerning administration of trade in colonial goods on Aryanised Jewish merchant Samuel Lederer.

  17. Amtsgericht (District Court) of Poběžovice

    The fonds contains archival materials from the lowest instance of the judicial administration in the annexed border region in the years 1938–1945. In the library requests from 1940 it is possible to trace archival materials attesting to the sale of the synagogue in Meclov (box 76, file 291-40) or archival materials from 1939–1940 documenting the dissolution of the Jewish Religious Community in Poběžovice and the entrusting of its property to the care of the Aufbaufond (construction fund) and the subsequent transfers of these assets (box 75, files 380-39, 379-39, 391-39, 352-40).

  18. 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...

  19. Landrat (District Councillor) of Lanškroun

    The archival fonds include official sources, among others adjustments of the occupation border, personal and organizational matters, trade, registry and financial matters of the municipalities and the district. Two inventory numbers are related to the Jewish history: Aryanization of the Tutsch and Neffe Jamné (Sobkovice) Jewish company and Handling the property of elements inimical to the German Reich, Czech and Jews – general regulations, correspondence.

  20. 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...