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Country: Czechia

  1. 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...

  3. Totenschein

    1. Documentary Material

    Death certificate of Hans Oplatka

  4. Totenschein

    1. Documentary Material

    Death certificate of Josef Lavecký

  5. A 222

    1. Photographic and Film Material

    Thomas Soukup Photo of Thomas Soukup

  6. A 604

    1. Photographic and Film Material

    Tzv. "cela židovská" v Malé pevnosti The so-called Jewish cell in the Small Fortress

  7. A 876

    1. Photographic and Film Material

    4 dozorci SD na dvoře Malé pevnosti Four SD guards on yard in the Small Fortress

  8. A 877

    1. Photographic and Film Material

    Dozorce Soukup s manželkou, další dozorci s dětmi Warder Soukup with his wife, the other guards with children

  10. A 875

    1. Photographic and Film Material

    Dozorci SD, nastoupeni se zbraněmi na správním dvoře SD guards lined up with weapons in the Administrative court

  11. A 10920

    1. Documentary Material

    A regulation on a confiscation of the property of Ludwig Meyer (Lupu), Gestapo Berlin, 9.10.1944

  12. A 1816

    1. Documentary Material

    Expert evidence about Solution of the Jewish Question in the Protektorate Bohemia and Moravia in trial against Alfred Jost, Head of the Gestapo in Moravská Ostrava

  13. Reichs Prosecutor’s Office in Trutnov

    The fund contains well-preserved documents of justice administration from the occupation period and sorted in accordance with the individual cases that the court addressed; it is possible to have a clear look into the functioning of the period administration of justice. Jewish history is involved in the following documents: the death sentence fordental technician Weber, member of the NSDAP (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei), who in 1943 declared that no one believes in victory anymore and that the concentration camps are ruled by medieval methods and many Jews die there and th...

  14. Memoir of Věra Bezděková, neé Strickerová [31.8.1918, Wien]

    1. Testimonies

    Záznam vzpomínky bývalého vězně Malé pevnosti Terezín a ghetta Terezín

  15. Městský národní výbor Strakonice

    • Town National Committee of Strakonice / NAD 310

    The fonds contains documents of the town people's administration and delegated state administration, deeds, official books, file material and accounting material. Jewish issues can be found in the following areas: assistance to repatriates 1945, victims of the Gestapo 1942, renouncing Czechoslovak citizenship - A. Zucker 1948, national administration 1945-1949, Jews declared dead 1946-1948.

  16. Reichs District Gendarmerie Station in Pozorka

    Jewish issues do not specifically appear in the files but the relevant information can be expected in the following ones: Regulations and guidelines of the Gestapo offices in Liberec and Teplice on church affairs 1941 (inv. No. 23). The fonds contains materials concerning the life of the Czech minority, the agenda of POWs, and various events not even mentioned by the official propaganda.

  17. Jewish Religious Community of Olomouc

    This fonds contains the community's statutes including amendments (1865, 1892–1937), meeting minutes, protocol registers, election records, personnel records, membership registration, financial files, records concerning the teaching of religion, the construction and demolition of the synagogue, books of hazkarot, burial society records and the records of other Jewish associations and institutions. The community kept routine administrative files until 1940. In addition, the fonds contains a small collection of documents from 1940–1944 relating to the racial persecution of the Jewish populati...

  18. Landratsamt (District Councillor's Office) of Vrchlabí

    This fonds contains records of the Vrchlabí-based Landrat (district councillor). The following material relates to Jewish issues: correspondence with the Gestapo concerning Jews, 1940 (Inv. No. 5, Box 3); an official census of inhabitants and enumeration of factories, 1939 (Inv. No. 16, Box 33); weddings and racial policy, 1939-1945 (Inv. No. 18, Boxes 43-44A); anti-Jewish measures, 1938–1939 (Inv. No. 49, Box 489). It is highly likely that there are also records relating to Jews in other parts of the fonds that are not mentioned here. Records in the fonds that relate to elements hostile to...

  19. Regierungspräsident (Office of the Governing President) of Karlovy Vary

    This is an exceptionally valuable fonds regarding political, economic, social and cultural history of an important part of the Sudetenland Reichsgau (Sudeten Reichs Region) in 1938–1945. For study of Jewish history, it is possible in particular to use the following archival records: box № 1 (Reports by the Gestapo on number of arrested and confiscated property of Jewish associations, 1938), box № 1 (Pogroms on Jews, burning to the ground of synagogues, 1938), box № 7, call № 1103 (Aryan origin of officials, 1938–1943), box № 8, call № 1203 (Employment of Jews in state services, 1939–1944), ...

  20. Okresní soud Bechyně

    • District Court in Bechyně / NAD 70

    The fonds contains documents of the Bechyně District Court from the years (1849) 1850-1949 concerning the civil and criminal agendas, as well as the agenda for the establishment of new land registers. Information on Jews can be found in expropriation documents ordered by the Gestapo during the Nazi occupation, and the inheritance agenda (file No D) of Jews perished in WW II in concentration camps dealt with in 1946.