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Language of Description: English
Holding Institution: Moravský zemský archiv v Brně

  1. Auswanderungsfonds (Emigration Fund), Brno Office

    The Emigration Fund is important for discovering the size of Jewish home assets, and for drawing a conclusion from it about the scale of Nazi plundering of Jewish property. The files contain contracts about compulsory sale, official valuation of real estate, expressions of owners about state of real estate, extract from land registry, notification of office of land council about establishment of fiduciary, lease agreements, proceedings for the sale of real estate, inventory records and correspondence with tenants and caretakers and others. The frequent official records with date and number ...

  2. Oberlandrat (Supreme District Councillor) of Vsetín

    The fonds contains material from just two months of activity of the office, but it contains valuable data concerning the start of the Nazi occupation of the Vsetín area, inter alia Reports of the District Office in Valašské Meziříčí, lists of municipalities, Jews, Germans and associations (1939).

  3. NSDAP – Local Groups of Břeclav

    The fonds contains sources primarily for the organisation NSDAP and its elements and related associations in Břeclav and Poštorná. The List of Inhabitants of Břeclav with data about nationality (Germans, Czechs, Slovaks, Bulgarians, Poles, Jews) and their membership in Nazi organisations in 1939 concerns the Jews.

  4. NSDAP – Local Group of Letovice

    The fonds contains documents of the local NSDAP Letovice group, inter alia correspondence with lists of Jews and their property.

  5. Treuhand- und Revisionsgesellschaft (German Administration of Seized Property) Brno

    The fonds of the German Administration of Seized Property Brno contains material from the Brno and Ostrava branch. The documents are divided according to branches into documents of institutions and physical persons whose property was seized. The seized property was mainly of Jewish origin.

  6. Inspector of the Uniformierteprotektoratspolizei (Uniformed Protectorate Police) in Moravia

    Only some of the documents have survived from the fonds of the Inspector of Uniformed Protectorate Police in Moravia, but its significance is not small. It contains books of daily reports, reports about sabotage, Czech resistance and police organisations, reports on history of partisan movement, secret files of police officers, requests for draft to police etc. The file Establishment of Jewish Transit Camps 1942 concerns Jewish history.

  7. Commander of the Ordnungspolizei Moravia

    The fonds contains materials concerning the supervision of the German occupation administration over the Protectorate gendarmerie and police. Only the following sources concern the Jewish matters: Complaints about gendarmes due to their anti–German behaviour and their contacts with Jews 1941, Senior Constable, retired, Richard Rotrökl, concealment of Jewish money 1942.