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Country: Czechia

  1. Landrat (District Councillor) of Aš

    The fonds contains record and accounting books, registry finding aids and files from the activity of the office of German state administration on the territory of the Sudetenland for the district Aš. In the section containing matters from the area of competence of the alien police, under inv. № 132 there are applications of Czech and Jewish firms for the return of property from 1939. In the part of the fonds kept under inv. № 133, lists are included of Czech and Jewish refugees from 1938–1940. In the section of sovereign matters, in the context of housing under inv. № 408 there are lists of...

  2. Archiv obce Řevnice

    • Archive of the Municipality of Řevnice / NAD 248

    The municipality archive originated from the activities of municipal administrative bodies. It contains deeds, official books, file material, and accounting material. Information on Jews can be found in the following documents: inv. no. 53 List of inhabitants 1851; inv. no. 57 List of inhabitants; inv. no. 66 List of issued laborers' books 1885–1920; inv. no. 78 Register of door-to-door salesmen 1898–1924; inv. no. 153 Refugees - support 1938–1939; inv. no. 154 Jews 1928–1945; Archive of the municipality of Řevnice - appendix I inv no. 9 Jews (possession of real estate) 1853.

  3. Policejní ředitelství Praha II - prezidium

    1. Policejní ředitelství Praha II
    • Polizeipräsidium Prag II Präsidium
    • Prague Police Directorate II - Presidium
    • PP II
    • NAD 1420_2
    • Národní archiv
    • 1420_2
    • English
    • 1921-1949
    • The fonds consists out of 236 linear meters of processed and inventoried documents, which are all accessible. 5,5 linear meters of documents are unprocessed and inaccessible.

    The subfonds Policejní ředitelství Praha II - všeobecná spisovna holds a very important collection of personal documents related with the Holocaust of Jews in Bohemia. In the general registry are documents of official character collected which are in any official relationship to Jews in the western part of the Czech lands like applications for passports and applications for emigration. Prague Police Directorate II - Presidium was the executive body in the Prague police administration and also responsible for internal personnel matters.

  4. Československý úřad pro hospodářskou pomoc a obnovu, Praha

    • Czechoslovak Office for Relief and Rehabilitation, Prague
    • UNRRA
    • Národní archiv
    • 313
    • English
    • 1943-1951
    • 28,5 linear metres from which 28,5 linear metres of documents are processed and inventoried and accessible.

    In the fonds there can be found lists and summaries of delivered suplies, reports about the economic situation in the Czechoslovak Republic, various reports from the proceedings of committees. There are also files related to the transport of supllies, another draft plans for relief and rehabilitation of the country (also for the Slovak part of the republic), bills or photographs. The Holocaust or Jewish related documents are in several boxes concerning the matter of repatriation of citizens from the Great Britain. There are lists of persons authorized for the repatriation in April and July ...

  5. Československý červený kříž, Londýn

    • Czechoslovak Red Cross, London
    • ČsČK-L
    • NAD 634
    • Národní archiv
    • 634
    • English
    • 1940-1945
    • The collection consists of 25 linear meters of processed and inventoried documents.

    The collection primarily consists of organisational material of the Czechoslovak Red Cross, including its main offices in London and its branches, as well as documents concerning their tasks. The annual report provides information about the medical and social care of Czechoslovak citizens in exile. The most important Holocaust-related documents in the collection of the Czechoslovak Red Cross - London include the card files and directories of Czechoslovak Jews who were interned in concentration camps erected shortly after the Reichskristallnacht in the Sudetengau, of Jews who were interned i...

  6. Sbírka Československé školy ve Velké Británii

    • Collection of the Czechoslovak school in the United Kingdom
    • Národní archiv
    • 1578
    • English
    • 1941-1945
    • 1,3 linear metres of which 1,3 linear metres inventoried. The fonds is partially accessible.

    The collection consist of originals and copies of the various documents, such as copies of identity documents, birth certificates, writing pads, textbooks, school certificates, photographs, messages from teachers to parents (or to the legal representatives of children), memoirs, school notes, presentations and newspapers. These materials also relate to more than 670 mostly Jewish children saved by the Kindertransporte organised by Nicolas Winton and other rescuers.

  7. Okresní úřad Zlín I.

    • District Office Zlín I / NAD 153

    The fonds contains documents of public administration, official books, files, accounting material and associated agenda. Jews are mentioned in the presidium files of the Zlín District Office, these often being measures, circulars, instructions and orders of higher instances such as: an investigation into anti-Jewish leaflets distributed in the Zlín region in 1936 and 1938; trips of retired German officers of the Jewish faith to the Czechoslovak Republic; measures in the district of Zlín in 1937; the number of Jewish refugees moving into the district of the Zlín political district in 1937; m...

  8. Okresní úřad Valašské Meziříčí

    • District Office of Valašské Meziříčí / NAD 13

    The fonds contains documents arisen from the activities of the district office: official books, file material and accounting material. Register, religious, and foundation matters, population records, passports, evictions, group D - School and religious matters, Trade matters (no. D, H, IV, VII), commercial and industrial matters, and also census records. Jews are explicitly mentioned in inv. no. 1508 VII, and 1-1500, Investigation of the property of the Jewish religious community in Valašské Meziříčí, the Jewish religious community in Vsetín. (box 962 A); inv. no. 1273 D Jewish affairs - re...

  9. Okresní úřad Chrudim I

    • District Office of Chrudim I / NAD 337

    The fonds contains documents of the political administration of the Chrudim district. Jewish affairs can be found in many of the agendas of this administration. The presidium files of the office reflect various phenomena, such as anti-Jewish sentiments, riots in municipalities with Jewish communities, and during the war the agenda concerning the Galician refugees who arrived in the district. There one can find records of Jewish members of the civil service, lists of Jewish emigrants from the Sudetenland, lists of Jewish shops and businesses in the district, and Jews with Polish citizenship....

  10. Okresní úřad Poděbrady

    • District Office of Poděbrady / NAD 189

    The fonds contains documents arising from the activities of the Poděbrady District Office, official books, files and registry finding aids. Information on Jews can be found generally in census sheets. Specific references to Jews can be found in the presidency files. These also contain situation reports from 1939-1942 (boxes 81 and 82). Relevant are also: inv. no. 22/1866 and inv. no. 13/1866 Jews - no riots reported; inv. no. 460, 493, 502/1899 Riots against Jews in Pečky; inv. no. 510/1899 Attacks against the offices and the synagogue in Křinec; inv. no. 530/1899 Anti-Jewish demonstrations...

  11. 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...

  12. Okresní úřad Praha-venkov-jih

    • District Office of Praha-venkov-jih / NAD 47

    The fonds contains documents arisen from activities of the district office during the Nazi occupation. It contains official books, file material, and accounting material. The fonds contains documents about the persecution of Jews, the seizure of their property, the transport of Jews, etc. (sections I/1, III/16). Reports on sabotage acts of the Czech population against the Nazi occupiers and illegal organizations, arrests, executions, and persecution of the population (in the Registry Department III). There are also documents concerning Czech refugees from the border region after the 1938 Mu...

  13. Reichsprotektor in Bohemia and Moravia, Station for Province of Moravia, Brno

    The fonds contains documents of the supreme political administration of Moravia documenting the Germanisation intentions of the Nazis, their penetration into and attempt to gradually control all areas of life. Materials have been preserved concerning Germanisation, the determination of domicile and citizenship and race, occupation, price economics and also Aryanization. In the fonds we can find much material relating to the history of the Jews in Moravia during the Protectorate and Second World War. For example, these materials are kept here: Report of NSDAP in Brno from September 1941 abou...

  14. Zahraniční tiskový archiv, New York

    • Foreign Press Archive, New York / NAD 1066
    • Národní archiv
    • 1066
    • English
    • 1939-1946
    • Textual material 588,62 linear meters

    The Clippings Archive of the Second Resistance, known since 1942 as the Czechoslovak Archives in New York, was part of the Czechoslovak Information Center in New York and is associated with the name of its founder, Arne Laurin. Thanks to him, a unique archive of clippings was created, gathering clippings mainly on foreign political and military events during the Second World War, on the situation in the Protectorate and also on the Second Czechoslovak Foreign Resistance. The fonds also contains newspaper clippings on the Jewish community in Czechoslovakia and anti-Jewish measures in the lat...

  15. Okresní úřad Humpolec

    • District Office in Humpolec / NAD 1

    Only a fragment of the file material has been preserved from the registry of the mixed district office, where a minimum of information about the Jewish population has been preserved. Since 1910, official books, registry finding aids, files, and accounting material have been preserved. Relevant material can be found in sub-call numbers A/3 Security, licensing, passports, citizenship and domicile right; A/4 Association matters; A/6 Church matters and register of births, deaths and marriages; I/3 Constitutional and state matters; III/2 Security matters; VI/2 Trade matters; VII/25 and 35 School...

  16. Okresní úřad Plzeň

    • Pilsen District Office / NAD 13

    The fonds contains documents of the political administration of the district of Pilsen, which included the judicial districts of Pilsen, Rokycany and Blovice. The fonds includes the census sheets from 1869, 1880, 1890, 1900 and 1910, the agenda of citizenship, the association cadaster, the register of trades and Judaica: Jewish communities, mainly in Spálené Poříčí, Štěnovice, Radnice, Rokycany, Pilsen, Blovice - correspondence, delimitation of districts, registry matters, election constituencies, list of families, statuses of Jews municipalities, reports on the number of members, maintenan...

  17. 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...

  18. Okresní úřad Příbram

    • District Office of Příbram / NAD 38

    The fonds contains official books and files. The following documents are relevant: Records of changes in religion 1882-1948 with registers; Lists of trades 1856-1949; Citizenship and emigration 1920-1940; Citizenship A-Ž 1937-1948; Lists of Jews who emigrated to Příbram in 1940; Seizure of Jews' bicycles 1941-1942; A list of Jewish trades 1942, Census sheets from 1921, Police population register approx. 1939-1945. Presidium files: Filling the post of the temporary rabbi for the former Beroun region. Supporting the candidacy of Moses Schiffmann of Votice for the district of Příbram 1866; A p...

  19. Okresní úřad Kutná Hora

    • District Office of Kutná Hora / NAD 7

    The fonds originated from the activities of the political administrative office of first instance. It contains official books, file material, and accounting material. The fonds contains the census of 1921 from the judicial districts of Kutná Hora and Uhlířské Janovice.Documents on the history of Jews can mainly be found in the following documents: religious, federal and assembly matters, domicile especially in the 5th handling period (1936-1946), Groups III Security and VII Education; religion, marriage, registry and endowment matters, and matters; specifically, inv. no. 1381 VIII/19 Jewish...