Archival Descriptions

• Committee for Refugee Assistance in Paris
• PVU
• NAD 658
• Comité d’Assistance aux Refugiés

• Národní archiv
• 658
• English
• 1936-1942
• The fonds consists of 47,84 linear meters of processed and inventoried documents. All material is accessible.
• Updated 5 years ago

The fonds Pomocný výbor pro uprchlíky, Paříž contains mainly of the correspondence of refugees, mainly from Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia and Poland, with the Comité d’Assistance aux Refugiés. The correspondence is sorted by surnames of the refugees. Czechoslovak refugees are organized separately. Box 322 contains correspondence of the Comité d’Assistance aux Refugiés with the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee and the other refugee organisations like the Schutzverband deutscher Schriftsteller.

• Ministry of Labour and Social Welfare - repatriation, Prague
• Ministerium für Arbeit und soziale Wohlfahrt - Repatriierung, Prag
• MPSP-R

• Národní archiv
• 1146
• English
• 1938-1951
• 441,62 linear metres from which 441,5 linear metres of documents are processed and inventoried and 0,12 linear metres are unprocessed. The fonds is partially accessible.
• Updated 8 years ago

The fonds contains important documents about refugees, immigration and emigration issues and about the repatriation and reemigration between 1938 and 1950/1. There are documents from each section of the Institute for the Care of Refugees (1938) (socio-medical, evacuation and financial section) i and also from the Institute for the Care of relocated people (functioning from 1940) in the fonds. The most valuable documents are deposited in boxes 16-895, there is an administrative agenda of emigration - applications for the emigration, further more applications for transports. There are card fi...

• Ministry of Social Welfare - London
• MSP - L
• NAD 1007

• Národní archiv
• 1007
• English
• 1940-1945
• 15,8 linear metres of documents from which 15,5 linear metres are processed and inventoried and 0,3 linear metres unprocessed. The fonds is partially accessible.
• Updated 5 years ago

The fonds includes various administrative correspondence (this correspondence refers to requests for social supports or finding a job opportunity), questionnaires of repatriates, circulars, information booklets, studies, reports and records of the Czechoslovak National Council and its committees. Jewish related documents can be found in various boxes, such as in boxes 58 and 59, there are files of Jewish associations, clubs and Jewish committees including the Federation of Czechoslovak Jews, The Union of Orthodox Jews from Czechoslovakia or Central Board of Jews. There are also documents fr...

• MUDr. Max Egon Wolf / NAD 424

• Národní archiv
• 424
• English
• 1900-1942
• Textual material 0,12 linear meters
• Updated 2 years ago

The personal archive of MUDr. Max Egon Wolf is a source for the knowledge of the Holocaust and the racial persecution of the Jewish population in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. The fonds contains documents from 1939-1941, when the Wolfs faced racial persecution. Using one family as an example, it is possible to trace specific interventions in the life of the Jewish population by the Protectorate authorities - e.g. the levying of special taxes or property registration. The archival material in the fonds also shows the efforts of the Wolfs and their relatives to escape persecution, ...

1. Policejní ředitelství Praha II

• Prague Police Directorate II - population records
• Polizeipräsidium Prag II - Personenregistratur

• Národní archiv
• 1420_5
• English
• 1914-1953
• The subfonds consists out of 848 linear meters of processed and inventoried documents. All material is accessible. The subfonds consists out of a card register of any person who was registered in Prague.
• Updated 9 years ago

The material of the subfonds contains the registration cards of all people registered between 1914 and 1953 in Prague including the refugees who fled from Nazi Germany and after 1938 also from Austria and the Czech border region (Sudeten). These registration cards contain information about the parents of the registered person, it´s place and date of birth, religion, profession, place of living, date of marriage. The registration cards from the time of the Protectorate Bohemia and Moravia include also the form field "of Jewish descend". For foreigners if or if not of Jewish descend exist a s...

• 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.
• Updated 5 years ago

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...

• 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.
• Updated 9 years ago

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.

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.
• Updated 9 years ago

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.

• 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.
• Updated 5 years ago

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 ...

• 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.
• Updated 8 years ago

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...

• Foreign Press Archive, New York / NAD 1066

• Národní archiv
• 1066
• English
• 1939-1946
• Textual material 588,62 linear meters
• Updated 2 years ago

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...