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Language of Description: English
Country: Czechia

  1. Okresní soud Kladno

    • District Court of Kladno / NAD 1394

    The fonds contains documents originated from the activities of the district court, file material, and the agenda of land registers. Information on Jews can be found especially in inheritance files, where it is possible to search by names of persons. Declarations of death from the war period are also relevant - one can find information on Lidice citizens and Jewish citizens taken into concentration camps. The subsequent inheritance agenda dealing with the inheritance of these murdered citizens is relevant, too. The files can also be found in the handling period of 1924-48, those concerning J...

  2. 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...

  3. Okresní úřad Olomouc – venkov

    • District Office of Olomouc – region / NAD 3

    The fonds contains documents of the state administration of the political district of Olomouc, including documents concerning the Jewish religious community in Olomouc from 1920-1936; documents concerning the moving of Jews of foreign nationality to Czechoslovakia from 1936; lists for confiscating Jewish property from 1940-1941. In addition, the fonds includes the implementation of the Government Order on Jews and Jews of Mixed-race in the Public Service, and the files evidencing the confiscation of Jewish assets. The catalog of presidium files from 1918–1937 includes ordinances from 1918–1...

  4. Předsednictvo ministerské rady, Praha

    • Presidium of the Ministerial Council, Prague / NAD 1082
    • Národní archiv
    • 1082
    • English
    • 1918-1945
    • Textual material 632,90 linear meters

    The fonds includes the entire agenda of the Presidium of the Ministerial Council. Several relatively coherent units directly concern Jews, their organizations, religious societies, relevant government regulations (with an overlap after 1939 - legal status in the Protectorate, Jewish property, emigration, Jews in the civil service); reports on the activities of Jewish parties and organizations, the memorandum of the Zionist Revision Union, the affairs of companies of Jewish entrepreneurs (strike at the company of M. Beer in Svitávka, national situation at the company of A. Hahn in Bohumín). ...

  5. Archiv města Plzeň – Městský úřad Plzeň (registratura D a měst. úřady)

    • City Archives of Pilsen – Pilsen Municipal Office (D registry and municipal authorities) / NAD 1258/18

    The fonds contains documents of the Municipal Office of Pilsen and municipal authorities and organizations. The fonds contains religious matters or Judaica: Documents and announcements of the Union of Czech Progressive Jews, the Makkabi Jewish physical education association, the Czech-Jewish National Association Pilsen, the Israeli Community Pilsen; collection of religious taxes, Jewish issues (securities, designation of non-Aryan shops, a list of Jewish merchants in Pilsen, 2%-fee from the Aryanization of companies, forced custody of the non-Aryan accounts, prohibitions - e.g. changes of r...

  6. Customs Investigation Office, Brno Branch

    Among other things, the fonds provides details about confiscated Jewish property, securities, jewellery and precious metals, securing of Jewish deposits and bank accounts and permission of maintenance amounts from rare Jewish accounts. In some files, record is also contained of balances of Jewish businesses from the end of the 1st Republic. It is possible to see in the material the first wave of pogroms against the Jews, restriction of their economic influence, stripping of their social standing, property, options for emigration etc. The following types of items are then specifically specif...

  7. Německá osídlovací společnost Karlovy Vary

    • Deutsche Ansiedlungsgesellschaft Karlsbad
    • German Settlement society Carlsbad
    • NOS
    • DAG Karlsbad
    • NAD 556
    • Národní archiv
    • 556
    • English
    • 1938-1945
    • The fonds consists out of 241 linear meters of processed and inventoried documents. 1 linear meter of documents is not processed and inventoried and inaccessible.

    In the Sudeten region were since 1938 four different organisations involved into the Nazi-settlement policy. These were the Sächsischen Bauernsiedlung GmbH Dresden, the Schlesische Landgesellschaft mbH Breslau, the Bayerische Bauernsiedlung GmbH and the Deutsche Ansiedlungsgesellschaft which openened in February 1939 an office (Geschäftstelle) in Carlsbad (Karlsbad/Karlovy Vary) and an office in Mährisch Schönberg (Šumperk). The main activity of the Deutsche Ansiedlungsgesellschaft was the settlement of German farmers on farms which belonged to Czechs, Jews or other "foreigners". Czech prop...

  8. Okresní úřad Říčany

    • District Office of Říčany / NAD 141

    The fonds contains documents arisen from the activities of the district office: official books, file material, accounting material, and others. Explicit mentions of Jews can be found in the following documents: inv. no. 411 Abolition of the Jewish religious community (Strančice) 1934-1939; inv. no. 420 Records of foreigners, permitting travel to Jews, dissolution of summer camps 1939-1942; inv. no. 454 Reports on Jewish property [567] 1940; inv. no. 454 Reports on of Jewish property [567] 1940; inv. no. 454 Trade establishments, trade associations, fire inspections of enterprises, Jewish tr...

  9. Ministerstvo sociální péče - Londýn

    • 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.

    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...

  10. Okresní úřad Sedlčany

    • Sedlčany District Office / NAD 7

    The fonds contains official books and files. The following documents are relevant: Conversion to the Roman Catholic Church and change of name Teresia Kohnová 1900; Jewish Religious Society 1904-1927, 1909-1937; Register of Jews: file 1940-1941 (A-K, L-W) with photographs; trade licenses 1940 (containing an inventory of Jewish property); Jewish religious communities 1938-1941; records of conversions 1938; The Record of Infectious Human Diseases 1940; Presidium files: Measures against agitation and political terror against Jewish citizens in connection with the exercise of their right to vote...

  11. Úřad říšského protektora v Čechách a na Moravě, Praha

    • Amt des Reichsprotektors in Böhmen und Mähren, Prag
    • Office of the Reichsprotector in Bohemia and Moravia, Prague
    • ÚŘP
    • Národní archiv
    • 1005
    • English
    • 1939-1945
    • 255, 12 linear metres of documents are processed and inventoried and accessible and 50, 52 linear metres are unprocessed and not accessible

    In the fonds, there are many jewish related documents and for studying the theme of protectorate Jews it is a fundamental fonds. There are documents related generally to the status of Jews in the Protectorate, their legal status in the freelance work or in the state administrative. Valuable documents are related to the Aryanization/Arisierung of the jewish property (jewish companies, trades, traffics, agricultural and forestry companies, timber companies) and its later redistribution, various lists of aryanizated property and lists of posted Treuhänders. There are also documents about the N...

  12. Okresní úřad Praha-venkov-sever

    • District Office of Praha-venkov-sever / NAD 140

    The fonds contains documents arisen from the activities of the district office. The documents mainly relate to the period of the Second World War. Information on Jews can be found in the presidium files: inv. no. 85, box 21 - discounted railway tickets for persons who were punished for political reasons after 15 March 1939, then Jews or civil servants who lived in a marriage with a Jew or a Jewish half-breed; inv. no. 426 Order of Oberlandrat from 12 March that the mandatory marking of Jews be extended to Jews of Slovak, Croatian and Romanian nationalities. Jews were obliged to wear the obl...

  13. Ministerstvo práce a sociální péče - repatriace, Praha

    • 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.

    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...

  14. Okresní úřad Blatná

    • District Office of Blatná / NAD 419

    The fonds contains documents of the regional political state administration and the judicial administration, dealing with the economic, political, social and cultural conditions of the former judicial district of Blatná and Březnice. Information on Jews can be found in the following areas: presidium files - threatening Jewish traders in Březnice and Rožmitál Blatné, an anti-Jewish campaign in Blatná, a dispute between the Sokol association and the Jewish religious community 1870-1899, E. Kohn's funeral, a list of Jewish shops, associations, organizations and companies, search for Polish Jew...

  15. Ministerstvo zahraničních věcí - výstřižkový archiv, Praha

    • Ministry of Foreign Affairs - clippings archive, Prague / NAD 506
    • Národní archiv
    • 506
    • English
    • 1918-1987
    • Textual material 1916,75 linear meters

    The clippings archive, which was established at the request of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, systematically collected clippings mainly on foreign political events. Gradually, a unique collection of thematically arranged newspaper clippings from the Czechoslovak and foreign press from the years 1916-1987 was created. The fonds itself is divided into three parts, the first of which contains clippings from 1916-1944, the second one from 1945-1951 and the third one from 1952-1987. The first part of the fonds contains sets of clippings on Jews in Czechoslovakia from 1920-1944 and on the Jewis...

  16. Archiv městečka Malenovice a Místní národní výbor Malenovice

    • Malenovice Town Archives and the Malenovice National Committee / NAD 620

    The fonds contains documents of the municipality self-government. With its scope, it belongs to the fonds of small towns. It contains only particulars about Jews: anti-semitic lectures by the Vlajka organization and the post-war investigation of their members 1940–1945: announcements, lectures “Judaism and Modern Nationalism,” Czech Labor Front, speaker Vykydal from Želechovice, 20 July 1940; "Jews and London must be tried by the People's Court", convened by Jaroslav Pagáč from Zlín, 6 December 1941; the issue of handing over German and Czech members of the Vlajka by the Security Commission...

  17. Amtsgericht (District Court) of Liberec

    The fonds includes judicial files - files of the company register with prior documents since the second half of the 19th century, the records of termination of companies after 1945, and materials concerning forced auctions and forced administration. The criminal matters include accusations of communist thinking, Jewish origin, and contact with prisoners of war, illegal border crossing, smuggling, speculation with food and sabotage. A very good registry finding aid makes it possible to identify the following criminal files (particulars) concerning the Jewish history: inv. No. 144, box 43: Ho...

  18. Okresní úřad Vsetín

    • District Office of Vsetín / NAD 76

    The fonds contains documents arisen from the activities of the district office: official books, file material, accounting material and others. Information on Jews can be found in the following files: Group V Register and religion matters, Trade licensing matters, Apostasies and conversions (1909-1921). Jews are also explicitly mentioned in inv. no. 536 VII/37 Jewish religious associations 1936-40; inv. no. 528 VI/1 Register of Jewish property and Aryanization of Jewish enterprises 1942-43. Mentions of Jews can also be found in presidium files: inv. no. 35/1913 Jewish representatives in the ...

  19. Okresní úřad Mnichovo Hradiště

    • District Office of Mnichovo Hradiště / NAD 25

    The fonds contains deeds, official books, file material, accounting material, and also census sheets which contain valuable records of Jews in the region. In general, the relevant items can be found in documents related to the trade agenda and religious issues in individual handling periods. Explicit references to Jews are then in the following documents: inv. no. 491 5/3-5/11 Churches, cemeteries, parishes, religious communities (1878-1892); inv. no. 516 5/25 Jewish religious communities; inv. no. 5/544 Jewish religious communities (1903-1913); inv. no. 771 VII/25 Jewish religious communit...

  20. Okresní soud Kamenice nad Lipou

    • District Court in Kamenice nad Lipou / NAD 26

    The fonds contains the agenda arising from the activities of the district court. The agenda is divided according to individual periods into sections A, B, C, and D - land books. The processed part contains registers of deaths (1850-1912), estate protocols with indexes (1868-1897), lists of last wills 1855-1897, a list of estates (1873-1881), where information about Jews from the district can be found. In the unprocessed part of the fonds, inheritance proceedings have been preserved, including the Jewish population - from older periods only selectively after appraisal proceedings. The proces...