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Country: Czechia

  1. Archiv města Havlíčkův Brod

    • Archives of the Town of Havlíčkův Brod / NAD 1142

    The fonds contains deeds, law books, official books and documents from the fields of economics, culture, church, politics, construction, etc. It contains the following materials on the history of Jews: after 1848 - buildings, expansion land operation of Jewish enterprises: textile factories of the Mahler, Bauer, Stiassny, A. B. Musil, and Löwy & Drucker families, the Roth steam mill. First World War - constructing a refugee colony for Jews from Galicia and Bukovina, Jewish refugees. The first Czechoslovak Republic - self-government, minutes of the council board and council meetings, ele...

  2. Archiv města Hořice

    • Archives of the Town of Hořice / NAD 780

    The fonds contains documents of the municipality of Hořice: books, file material, accounting material, plans, and seal matrixes. In the period before 1850, there are records of the Hořice Jews mainly in the town books, - court books, books on hereditary leases, minutes of council meetings and protocols. In general, these are records relating to the sale and purchase of houses and land, debts, petty offenses, trade, complaints, and taxes. For the second half of the 18th and the 19th centuries, a number of Jewish land books have been preserved in the fonds - Jewish book containing original co...

  3. Archiv města Hradec Králové

    • Archives of the City of Hradec Králové / NAD 283

    The fonds is very large and covers the entire history of the city of Hradec Králové. It contains official books, deeds, file material and accounting material. Relevant information can be assumed in the inventory numbers 2184 and 2598. This is an extract from the register where Jews are mentioned. The numbers 2184 (restitution of Jewish property) and 2598 deal with their property, i.e. these are documents from the period 1939-1949. It is possible to assume mentions of the Jews in inv. No. 381 (book of inheritance statements and divided estates [1841-1848/1878/]), inv. No. 444 (record book [1...

  4. Archiv města Jičín

    • Archives of the Town of Jičín / NAD 14

    The fonds contains documents of the municipality of Jičín (books, files, and accounting material) and maps the history of the city since the 14th century, which had included the Jewish population since times immemorial. Before 1850, there are mentions of Jews from Jičín especially in municipal books, namely court books, market books, council minutes and protocols, and the registers of the population. From the 19th century, a number of Jewish land books have been preserved in the fonds such as a market book with a list of newly built Jewish houses 1773-1831, books of seats in the synagogue 1...

  5. Archiv města Jistebnice

    • Archives of the Town of Jistebnice / NAD 489

    The fonds contains documents of the local self-government, official books, files and accounting material. Information on Jews can be found in documents from 1628-1945. Before 1850, these only individual items (a printed patent against the Jews 1725; a testimony of the Jewish population in a dispute 1726; the interrogation of Eliška, a Jew, accused of selling stolen goods 1727). After 1850, these are registry matters, and from the period of WW II the persecution of Jews.

  6. Archiv města Kamenice nad Lipou

    • Archives of the Town of Kamenice nad Lipou / NAD 307

    The fonds contains documents, official books, and files. Jews are explicitly mentioned in the following documents: deprivation of the membership of Jew Leo Wertheimer in the council (inv. No. 328); refugees from Galicia (inv. No. 380); list of Jewish children as summer guests for recovery (inv. No. 383); apartments after Jews (inv. No. 526); lists of Jews (inv. No. 552); Jewish affairs - self-employed persons, teacher of religion, establishment of a canteen, resignation of a head, riots against Jews, kosher butcher's work, regulations regarding the origin and property of Jews 1851-1944 (inv...

  7. Archiv města Kaňk

    • Archives of the Town of Kaňk / NAD 6

    The fonds is the basic source for understanding the political, economic, social and cultural development of the town from the 15th century to 1945. It contains deeds, official books, file material, and accounting material. Information on Jews can also be found in the agenda from the pre-municipal office period of the 18th century. In general, church affairs (1850-1944), in particular, are relevant, specifically inv. no. 1195, the period 1850-1944 Church affairs - priests, cooperator, visitations, festivities, choir, fields, registry affairs, Jews. Explicit mentions of Jews can then be found...

  8. Archiv města Ledeč nad Sázavou

    • Archives of the Town of Ledeč nad Sázavou / NAD 1146

    The fonds contains deeds, books of patents, land registers, town finances, minutes of the council board and council, court documents (also disputes with Jewish residents). From the period up to 1848, a rich archive of the Jewish community has been preserved. The period since 1848: Jewish community, rabbis, teachers of religion, members of the community, fees, Czech-Jewish movement. The period of 1938-1945: decrees against Jews, mixed marriage of Deputy Mayor Josef Fenik.

  9. Archiv města Luhačovice

    • Luhačovice Town Archives / NAD 570

    The fonds contains documents of the municipality of Luhačovice, official books, files, and accounting material. Jews began to settle in Luhačovice permanently after 1848, until then they visited Luhačovice only during the spa season. Information on Jews can be found in the Luhačovice Archive fonds in individual documents: permission for Jews to use a hall for services 1845; Jewish religious community: model statutes, a request for the establishment of a prayer house 1934; the building commission for the construction of the synagogue and hospital 1928. From the Holocaust period: a list of Je...

  10. Archiv města Napajedla

    • Napajedla Town Archives / NAD 670

    The fonds contains documents of the municipality of Napajedla, official books, files, and accounting material. The first records of Jews in Napajedla are mainly associated with the distillery. The distillery was managed by Jewish tenants for most of the 19th century. Information on Jews can be found in the fonds only in some documents from the Holocaust period: confiscated Jewish property - forced administration, rental of real estate, local ordinances and regulations concerning Jews and their property 1939–1945; internment of Napajedla citizens in concentration and prisoner of war camps, d...

  11. Archiv města Plzeň – Městský úřad Plzeň (registratura D a měst. úřady)

    • City Archives of Pilsen – Pilsen Municipal Office (D registry and municipal authorities) / NAD 1258/18

    The fonds contains documents of the Municipal Office of Pilsen and municipal authorities and organizations. The fonds contains religious matters or Judaica: Documents and announcements of the Union of Czech Progressive Jews, the Makkabi Jewish physical education association, the Czech-Jewish National Association Pilsen, the Israeli Community Pilsen; collection of religious taxes, Jewish issues (securities, designation of non-Aryan shops, a list of Jewish merchants in Pilsen, 2%-fee from the Aryanization of companies, forced custody of the non-Aryan accounts, prohibitions - e.g. changes of r...

  12. Archiv města Poděbrady

    • Archives of the Town of Poděbrady / NAD 196

    The fonds contains documents arising from the administration of the town of Poděbrady: deeds, official books, file material and accounting material. It also includes census sheets, important for the research of Jewish history. The following documents are relevant for the first half of the 19th century: files of the political department of the Poděbrady municipality office, group VIII. Judaism, tolerance patent (1826 -1850). Specific mentions of Jews can be found in the documents of individual groups (Group I. Regulations, circulars by the regional office and reports on them by the municipal...

  13. Archiv města Příbram

    • Archives of the Town of Příbram / NAD 152

    The fonds contains official books and files. The following documents concern Jewish issues. The population register books: electoral registers; lists of townspeople; registers of inhabitants; alphabetical lists of inhabitants; lists of issued domicile certificates; lists of house owners; lists of tenants; trade registers; Příbram Jewish Cemetery, a list of persons of Jewish origin who died during the Nazi occupation in 1939-1945, a list of persons deported by the transport from Příbram on 4 September 1942; File material: Jews - staying in the town in 1848; citizens' protests against Jews se...

  14. Archiv města Smečno

    • Archives of the Town of Smečno / NAD 129

    The fonds deals with the history of the town of Smečno and contains deeds, official books, auxiliary books, files, and accounting material. The considerably fragmented fonds also contains information about Jews in the town .Files until 1850: inv. no. 161 A complaint of the Hosiery Guild against Jews for their door-to-door stocking trade (1711?), inv. no. 193 Leasing municipal property: b) a grain store to Jew Abraham 1791-1815, d) a teams of horses to Jew Abraham 1796, f) a tavern at the town hall 1841, inv. no. 199, also the maintenance of the army and other military affairs (an excerpt fr...

  15. Archiv města Soběslav

    • Archives of the Town of Soběslav / NAD 240

    The fonds contains documents of the local self-government, deeds, official books, files and accounting material. Information on Jews can be found in individual items in the thematic group Religious life in the town, Jews, 1850-1943; and Persecution of Jews, 1920-1945.

  16. Archiv města Strakonice

    • Archives of the Town of Strakonice / NAD 309

    The fonds contains documents of the municipal self-government and the delegated state administration until 1945 (1953), namely deeds, books, file material, and accounting material. In terms of industrial development, the town of Strakonice was among the important towns of southern Bohemia at the end of the 19th, and also during the 20th century. There were 5 factories producing fezzes, which were owned by the Jewish families of Fürth, Stein, Zucker, and Weil. At the beginning of the 20th century, these factories were merged into a joint-stock company based in Vienna and later in Strakonice ...

  17. Archiv města Světlá nad Sázavou

    • Archives of the Town of Světlá nad Sázavou / NAD 1242

    The fonds stores privileges, land registers, municipal agenda, minutes of the council board and council, economic affairs, and other documents. Information of Jews can mainly be found in documents on economic matters and minutes of the municipal council board and council meetings. The economic agenda - especially the Mahler stonemason's company. There are also documents about the mayor Alfred Weinstein (mayor since 1931) and the Morawetz family - the owners of the castle in Světlá na Sázavou until 1938. The period 1938-1945: decrees against Jews.

  18. Archiv města Tábor

    • Archives of the Town of Tábor / NAD 147

    The fonds contains the local government documents, deeds, official books, file material, and accounting material. Information on Jews can be found in documents from 1628-1945 (debts of the municipality to the Prague Jews David Lury and Aaron Tausk and to Matyáš Žlutický of Tábor, and the debt of Saul Israel to the municipality 1622; debts of the Jewish population; the permission of the town council to establish a Jewish cemetery (copy) 1634, list of Jewish families living in Tábor 1691, the number of children registered in Jewish registries 1913-1916, the proposal of the city council to clo...

  19. Archiv města Telč

    • Archives of the Town of Telč / NAD 1179

    The fonds has been preserved in fragments and contains documents of the local government (documents, official books, file material). The Jewish community, too, is represented by several documents. From the Holocaust period it is the correspondence, orders, and decrees from 1939-1944.

  20. Archiv města Třešť

    • Archives of the Town of Třešť / NAD 1127

    The fonds contains official books and files of the town of Třešť. Books: A list of Jewish families 1789–1840 (only men as heads of households), A book of documents of the Jewish synagogue (1790) 1811–1860, The principal book of seats in the synagogue in Třešť 1811–1873. Files: Jewish cemetery - an agreement between the town and the Jewish community 1736–1739, Jews (various files in the dossier with the old calling number 339): files about the synagogue 1941–1942, the topographic plan of the synagogue and the immediate vicinity in 1920s and 1930s, Jewish property 1942–1944, lists of Jewish i...