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Country: Czechia

  1. Německé státní ministerstvo pro Čechy a Moravu, Praha

    • Deutsches Staatsministerium für Böhmen und Mähren, Prag
    • German State Ministry for Bohemia and Moravia, Prague
    • NSM, former fonds SÚ MV č. 110
    • NAD 1464
    • Národní archiv
    • 1464
    • English
    • 1939-1945
    • 13.6 linear meters of documents, all processed and inventoried.

    Records generated by German occupational institutions (Reichsprotektorat Böhmen und Mähren) and Czech auxiliary agencies dealing with matters of internal security and racial policy, especially anti-Jewish measures. Includes the national affairs and state police catalogue of confiscated art and precious metal objects of Jewish property.

  2. Okresní národní výbor Strakonice

    • District National Committee of Strakonice / NAD 441

    The fonds contains documents of the district people's administration and delegated state administration, documenting the economic, political, social and cultural conditions of the former district of Strakonice. Jewish issues can be found in the following areas: renouncing Czechoslovak citizenship 1947 (1951), national administration 1947, affairs of individual companies 1945-1949, Jewish religious community 1949-1950, commission of inquiry - lists of victims of Nazism, lists of persons imprisoned during the occupation 1945- 1947. Information on Jews can also be found in the section entitled...

  3. Archiv obce Dolní Beřkovice

    • Archives of the Municipality of Dolní Beřkovice / NAD 10

    The fonds contains documents of the municipal self-administration of Dolní Beřkovice such as official books, file material, accounting material, and other material. Very detailed information can be found in the domicile registration sheets from the period 1880-1946 (inv. no. 14) as well as in the granting of domicile right 1901-1945 (inv. no. 15) and domicile certificates. Jews from the municipality are explicitly mentioned in documents from 1939-1944, inv. no. 22, the scope of the documents being 1 box.

  4. Okresní národní výbor Blatná

    • District National Committee of Blatná / NAD 442

    The fonds contains documents of the district people's administration and delegated state administration, documenting the economic, political, social and cultural conditions of the former Blatná district. It contains official books, file material and accounting material. Jewish issues can be found in the following areas: commission of inquiry (list of Jews in the district, anti-Jewish action) 1940-1946, citizenship - sorted alphabetically by name (J. Stein, representative of Bata's enterprises in Africa) (1910) 1945-1948, Jewish religious municipality (inventory of property) 1945-1950.

  5. Archiv městečka Úvaly

    • Archive of the Town of Úvaly / NAD 144

    The fonds contains documents arisen from the activities of the Úvaly town administration, deeds, official books, and file material. In general, the relevant information can be found in documents concerning education, culture, church associations, religion, and trade agenda. Jews are also explicitly mentioned in the following documents: inv. no. 195 Population of the municipality - general affairs (Jews) 1940-1941; inv. no. 198 Population of the municipality - records and reports (census, lists of inhabitants and houses, Jews) 1865-1941; inv. no. 267 Housing administration (e.g. forced evict...

  6. Stillhaltekomissar für Organisationen (Continuity Commissioner for Organisations) in Liberec

    The fonds contains materials on Jewish communities, associations and foundations within the territory of the former district of the Sudetenland, liquidated upon cession of the Sudetenland to Germany. Part of the fonds, held under inv. № 6, have individual folders ordered alphabetically by municipality: file 43 – Jewish religious community Karlovy Vary (Karlsbad in German): billing for demolition of the synagogue and land underneath it, tax from the cemetery plot, Jewish foundation and Jewish spa house; folder 46 – statement from the land register with regards to the synagogue in Úštěk (Ausc...

  7. Archiv města Bechyně

    • Archives of the Town of Bechyně / NAD 390

    The fonds contains documents of the local self-government, deeds, books, file material and accounting material. Information of Jews can be found in documents from 1826 and 1939-1945 (persecution of Jews during the Nazi occupation, inventories of Jewish property, Jewish flats, Kohn's lands).

  8. Okresní soud Tábor I.

    • District Court of Tábor I / NAD 69

    The fonds contains documents of the Tábor I District Court from the years 1850-1949 (1984), concerning the civil and criminal agendas, as well as the agenda for the establishment of new land registers. As part of the inheritance agenda (file no. D), there are the inheritance proceedings of Jews who died during World War II, for example in concentration camps, dealt with especially in 1946.

  9. 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 ...

  10. Liebauthal Textile Works, Fischer and Co., GP, Libavské Údolí

    The fonds contains documents from the Liebauthal textile factories of Fischer and Co., Libavské Údolí from 1938 to 1950. Since these are documents of the Aryanised company, originally Noë Stross joint-stock company, United Textile Factories in Libavské Údolí and Bělá pod Bezdězem, a large number of documents are related to Jewish history. Matters pertaining to Aryanisation, its circumstances and its consequences are located mainly in part I. of the fonds. These include mainly Aryanisation contracts from 1939, transfers, buy-offs and payouts of shares in connection with the Aryanisation proc...

  11. Amtsgericht (District Court) of Cheb

    The fonds contains record books and files from the activity of the Amtsgericht (district court) Cheb and documents of the associated inheritance court. Out of the registry finding aids, the entire series of general and civil registers, registers of work disputes, forced administrations of real estate, debtors, inheritance and family law and criminal registers for example have survived. In the department of the medical court, there are preserved registers of care about race, with a list of names from 1940–1944 (inv. № 100–102). In addition to the directives and organisational matters of the ...

  12. Ministerstvo spravedlnosti, Praha

    • Ministry of Justice, Prague
    • MS
    • Národní archiv
    • 832
    • English
    • 1918-1953
    • 299,5 linear metres of documents from which 299,5 linear metres are processed and inventoried and 8,5 linear metres are unprocessed. The fonds is partially accessible.

    In the fonds, there are documents and records from the legislative council, public prosecutors and judicial administration department. There are also files containing reports from the criminal department and the prison department. The jewish related documents are in several boxes concerning more the matter of antisemitism in the Czechoslovak republic in the thirties than the matter of holocaust. In the boxes there can be found complaints on Jewish notaries and layers and also their requests for granting permission to work in law practice. There are also lists (dated between years 1919-1945)...

  13. State Police Office in Domažlice

    The fonds contains documents from the activity of the State Police Office in Domažlice. The vast majority of the preserved documents are constituted by associations’ files, but also matters of issuance of passports and emigration and the agenda of refugees from occupied areas inland in the autumn of 1938. Politically important files were not however preserved, these evidently having been destroyed before 1945. For study of Jewish history, it is possible to use in particular register books, this in particular concerning K 6 (List of passports issued, 1938–1939), K 7 (Index to this list, 1938...

  14. 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.

  15. Pomocný výbor pro uprchlíky, Paříž

    • 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.

    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.

  16. Reichs Archives of Opava

    The fonds documents the history of archiving in the government circuit Opava in the context of the Sudetenland Reichsgau (region) in the period 1938–1945. The fonds contains all the fundamental paperwork relating to the establishment and activities of the institution up until the end of Reich state administration in April 1945. The fonds contains several individual sources of value for the study of Jewish history. Primarily these are the results of research conducted by the archive in administrative institutions and parishes in the circuit of the Government President in Opava concerning the...

  17. Okresní národní výbor Vodňany

    • District National Committee of Vodňany / NAD 443

    The fonds contains documents of the district people's administration and delegated state administration: official books, files, and accounting material. It documents the economic, political, social and cultural conditions of the former district of Vodňany. Information on Jews can be found in the following areas: confiscated Jewish property (1935) 1945-1952 (sorted alphabetically by name), Jewish religious community 1950, the use of the former Jewish synagogue 1950-1958.

  18. Alois Haase, Trutnov

    The fonds contains records of the Alois Haase Company. Box 5 includes reports of work done by prisoners of war, forced labourers from other countries and Jewish female prisoners from the Gross-Rosen concentration camp in Silesia: correspondence with the head of the forced labour camp for Jewish female prisoners Elsa Hawliková and lists of Jewish female prisoners 1942–1943 (Inv. No. 111); lists of sick Jewish female prisoners from the forced labour camp in Poříčí who were working for flax companies in the Trutnov region in 1944 (Inv. No. 112); instructions from the Gross-Rosen concentration ...

  19. Archive of the City of Brno – Presidial Registry IV.

    • Archiv města Brna
    • COLLECTION.SURV.AM_Brno/1/28
    • English
    • 1933-1945
    • 7,00 linear meters

    The fonds contains files originating from the activities of the Presidium of the Land Capital City of Brno, which was themain and coordinating link in the municipal bureaucracy during the period 1940–1945. In the fonds can be found important sources concerning the persecution of Jews: Protectorate Bohemia and Moravia (1940–1942) – among other things revocation of honorary citizenship of Jews; Jewish matters (1940–1942) – ban on Jews entering scientific institutes, Jewish property, amendment of the legal position of Jews, liquidation of Jewish shops, etc.; Deletion of 22 persons of Jewish or...

  20. Oberlandrat (Supreme District Councillor) of Prostějov

    The fonds contains documents of administration in the circuit of the supreme district councillor in Prostějov, inter alia lists of Jewish firms and Jewish property. Statistics of Jewish businesses, Aryanization files and also lists of forced administrations have survived here. The fonds is one of the best preserved fonds of the Moravian German offices from the years of the occupation. Here we find these items concerning specifically the Jewish history: Jewish employees – placement of Jews, discovering employment of Jews, statistical questionnaires, overviews 1939–1940; Passports of Jews – d...