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Country: Czechia

  1. The estate of Petr Kien

    Umělecká tvorba a některé osobní dokumenty umělce Františka Petra Kiena.

  2. Farní úřad u Nejsvětějšího Srdce Páně Praha – Vinohrady

    • Parish Office at the Church of the Most Sacred Heart of Our Lord in Prague-Vinohrady / NAD 1155

    The fonds contains archival material concerning mainly Prague's religious history in 1884-1950. It also includes records of baptisms of adult Jews from 1933-1942 (Inv. No. 168) and sets of rules for Jews during World War II.(Inv. No. 186)

  3. 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.

  4. Fischer, Josef, Doc., PhDr.

    • Doc. PhDr. Josef Fischer / NAD 1306
    • Národní archiv
    • 1306
    • English
    • 1891-1945
    • Textual material Photographic images 2,80 linear meters

    The personal fonds of Doc. PhDr. Josef Fischer, a prominent Czech philosopher, sociologist, translator, and participant in the domestic anti-Nazi resistance, is a valuable source for understanding his personality and work, for understanding the intellectual and spiritual atmosphere of the interwar Czechoslovakia, and for studying the issues of the domestic non-communist resistance. The documents related to the resistance activities of the author, especially the letters and secret messages of doc. J. Fischer from prison are a valuable source. The fodns also contains the extensive corresponde...

  5. Forest Office of Nová Bystřice

    The fonds includes archival material of the Forest Office of Nová Bystřice (cultivation, timber felling, etc.). As for the Jewish history, there are documents concerning the forced labor of foreign nationals, namely the Hungarian Jews, from 1944.

  6. Gendarmerie Station in Poříčí (near Trutnov)

    The fonds of the Gendarmerie Station of Poříčí near Trutnov contains records from between 1938 and 1944. Among the main documents relating to Jewish matters is a list of Jewish businesses and Jewish businessmen from Poříčí, which is kept in Box 1673 under File Ref. Nos. 1–46 from 1938. Box 1673 also contains information on various regulations concerning the Jewish population, including an order prohibiting Polish Jews from entering the Sudetenland territory (Box 1673, File Ref. Nos. 12–63, 1939). Box 1674 contains, among other things, files with information on the founding of the labour cam...

  7. 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...

  8. Generální velitel četnictva, Praha

    • GVČ
    • Generalkommandant der Gendarmerie, Prag
    • NAD 1009
    • General Commander of the Gendarmerie
    • Národní archiv
    • 1009
    • English
    • 1918-1942
    • The collection consists out of 25 linear meters of processed and inventoried documents. 1.9 linear meters are unprocessed and inaccessible.

    The Gendarmerie in the pre-war Czechoslovak Republic was a militarily organized security force, according to the applicable legal requirements and according to the relevant state authorities to maintain public order and security throughout the territory of Czechoslovakia. It was also responsible for the border control and sent illegal emigrants from Nazi-Germany, under them also Jews, back to Germany. After the establishment of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, the Gendarmerie became part of the occupation administration. Gendarmes were given functions such as auxiliary police, accom...

  9. Generální velitel neuniformované protektorátní policie, Praha

    • Generalkommandant der nichtuniformierten Protektoratspolizei, Prag
    • General Commander of the non-uniformed Protectorate Police
    • GVNP/GKNP
    • NAD 919
    • Národní archiv
    • 919
    • English
    • 1942-1945
    • The collection consists out of 1,2 linear meters of processed and inventoried documents. 12,2 linear meters are unprocessed and inaccessible.

    The fonds contents out of different material concerning the Criminal Police in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. Of special interest are the camp rules of different Arbeitserziehungslager (AEL) including Svatobořice (Swatoborschitz), were also family members of emigrated Jews ("jüdisch versippt") were captured.

  10. Generální velitel uniformované protektorátní policie, Praha

    • General Commander of the Uniformed Protectorate Police, Prague
    • Generalkommandant der uniformierten Protektoratspolizei, Prag
    • NAD 912
    • GVČ
    • Národní archiv
    • 912
    • English
    • 1942-1945
    • The collection consists out of 14,55 linear meters of processed and inventoried documents. 9,15 linear meters are unprocessed and inaccessible.

    The documents in the collection of the Generalkommandant der uniformierten Protektoratspolizei, Prag are mostly of organisational nature. During the deportation of the Jews in the Bohemian lands to the Theresienstadt Ghetto members of the Uniformed police forces supported Gestapo and SS. The Uniformed police forces also formed a special unit for guarding the prisoners in the Theresienstadt Ghetto. Also the Roma camps Lety u Písku and Hodonín u Kunštátu were guarded by Uniformed Police forces.

  11. German Settlement Company – Chief Inspectorate in Stříbro, Trpísty/Čeminy

    The fonds includes archival records resulting from the activities of the German Settlement Company - The Chief Inspectorate Stříbro. Given the nature of the office, archival records related to the Jewish population and especially to its land property are likely to be found throughout the entire fonds, especially in the inventory units concerning the Chief Administration of Trpísty (the Třebel-Trpísty estate belonged, until 1938, to owners of Jewish origin). However, the confiscated Jewish possessions were undoubtedly managed by other chief administrations within the jurisdiction of the Chie...

  12. German Settlement Company in Nová Bystřice

    The fonds includes fragments of the archival records of the German Settlement Company in Nová Bystřice, showing the life and administration of the Nazis in the border regions in 1938-1945. The files relating to prisoners of war and foreign nationals are especially valuable. There are also interesting documents concerning property affairs of individual estates, showing the bad relations between the local officials of the Sudeten and the Nazi movements. Other documents relate to efforts to subordinate the agricultural production to the war economy. Jewish issues can specifically be found in f...

  13. Gestapo of Brno

    The basis for the fonds consists of the surviving part of the registry office of the Brno branch of the Gestapo and all surviving rural stations in Moravia. The fonds contains the files of secured and investigated persons denounced for various reasons (listening to the radio, seditious speech against the Reich, sabotage etc.), records from actions conducted by the Gestapo against illegal resistance groups and actions conducted against Jews. The files also contain several hundred records about placement and escapes of persons from concentration, labour and other types of camps. Other records...

  14. Hájková, Alena, PhDr.

    • PhDr. Alena Hájková / NAD 1226
    • Národní archiv
    • 1226
    • English
    • 1929-1997
    • Textual material Photographic images 6,75 linear meters

    The personal fonds of historian Alena Hájková is a valuable source of information relating to the issue of racial discrimination against the Jewish population and the beginnings of Jewish resistance in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. The fonds contains mainly her manuscripts of scientific works related to the anti-Nazi resistance with a focus on the Jewish resistance. The fonds contains manuscripts of works such as The List of Jews in 1939-1941, Participation of Jews in the Czech Resistance Movement, The Disappeared Ones in the First Months of the Occupation, and Administration in ...

  15. 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...

  16. Headquarters of Uniformierteregierungspolizei (Uniformed Government Police) in Brno (1919) 1942–1945

    The fonds contains written material from the time of the occupation, and it is preserved in a fragmentary fashion. It contains the documents of the Headquarters of Uniformed Government Police and Headquarters of the Police Company. Here reports about transports of Jews primarily concern the Jewish matter. They are these documents: Damage to posters, distribution of leaflets, damage to company signs, the painting of anti–Jewish slogans, anti–German graffiti etc. 1939–1943; Jews – orders and regulations about presence and behaviour of Jews in public rooms and parks, marking of Jewish shops an...

  17. Heller Josef - osobní fond

    • Josef Heller / NAD 1853

    The fonds contains documents from the personal fonds of Josef Heller, a Jewish merchant in Mladá Boleslav, who perished in a concentration camp. It contains correspondence and documents, old banknotes, Jewish yellow badges from the time of the Nazi occupation, and posters for theater performances in Mladá Boleslav from the years of 1850-1851.

  18. Heřman´s collection

    Pozůstalost Karla Heřmana, sbírka plakátků, pozvánek a dalších upomínkových předmětů týkající se terezínské kulturní činnosti.

  19. Hráský Josef PhDr.

    • PhDr. Josef Hráský / NAD 1431

    The fonds contains archival materials concerning the life and work of PhDr. Josef Hráský (born 31.12.1905, Slavoňov, died 1981 Prague). There is also a great number of sources for Jewish history, especially the persecution of him and his Jewish wife Marta (born Picková) during the World War II (sections Biographical Material and Personal Documents), and sources for his wife's Jewish family (The Pick family - Documents; Marta Picková-Hráská): It also contains materials for Jewish history which J. Hráský dealt with, e.g. the files of Jewish goldsmiths or the works of foreign authors from the ...

  20. Ignáz Etrich Limited Partnership, Horní Staré Město

    The fonds contains records of the Ignác (Ignaz) Etrich Limited Partnership in Horní Staré Město. Accounting records are the best preserved of the documents relating to the company's activities; they comprise a long and consistent series of ledgers dating from the first half of the 20th century until the company's nationalization. The accounts from the period of Nazi occupation include some records that relate to the use of Jewish female prisoners.