Archival Descriptions

• 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.

• Oberlandrat in Mährisch Ostrau
• Oberlandrát v Moravské Ostravě

• Zemský archiv v Opavě
• 133
• English
• 1939-1944
• Updated 10 years ago

• Union of Anti-Fascist Fighters - Central Committee, Prague / NAD 1063

• Národní archiv
• 1063
• English
• 1951-1969
• Textual material 27 linear meters
• Updated 2 years ago

The documents of the Union of Anti-Fascist Fighters are an important source of information on the resistance and resistance of the Czechs and Slovaks in 1914-1918, the domestic and foreign anti-Nazi resistance in 1939-1945, including the Jewish resistance, and the victims of racial and political persecution and prisoners of Nazi prisons and concentration camps. The fonds contains, among other things, fragments of the documents of the predecessors of the Union of Anti-Fascist Fighters. These are mainly personnel records, questionnaires, protocols, minutes, documents relating to illegal resis...

• Ministry of Finance - London
• MF-L

• Národní archiv
• 819
• English
• 1940-1945
• 24,85 linear metres from which are 16,5 linear metre processed and inventoried and 8,8 linear metres are unprocessed. The fonds is partially accessible.
• Updated 9 years ago

The fonds consists of documents of Ministry of Finance activities - documents for preparing and compilation of the state budget, documents for payments of Czechoslovak military and civil authorities. There can be found documents from other financial matters such as checks, accounts, financial confirmations, contracts or travel expenses. Documents that refer to jewish issue can be found in several boxes. The most important one might be the box n. 131, there are registers of Czechoslovak Jews (and other citizens) deported in to the Terezín ghetto and later in to the concentration camps in occ...

• Ministry of Economic Recovery - London
• MHO - L

• Národní archiv
• 786
• English
• 1941-1945
• 8,5 linear metres of documents from which all are processed and inventoried. The fonds is accessible.
• Updated 9 years ago

In the fonds, there are files from government meetings about post-war economic plans and works - such as ledgers, data used for preparations of the state budget, correspondence between departments, various economic reports for the Minister or memos. There are also documents related to post-war reconstruction plans (United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, UNRRA) such as documents of activities of each commissions (planning commission, industrial commission, medical commission...) and furthermore various statistics, files or newspapers. The Jewish-related documents are not we...

• GVČ
• Generalkommandant der Gendarmerie, Prag
• NAD 1009
• General Commander of the Gendarmerie

• Národní archiv
• 1009
• English
• 1918-1942
• The collection consists out of 25 linear meters of processed and inventoried documents. 1.9 linear meters are unprocessed and inaccessible.
• Updated 8 years ago

The Gendarmerie in the pre-war Czechoslovak Republic was a militarily organized security force, according to the applicable legal requirements and according to the relevant state authorities to maintain public order and security throughout the territory of Czechoslovakia. It was also responsible for the border control and sent illegal emigrants from Nazi-Germany, under them also Jews, back to Germany. After the establishment of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, the Gendarmerie became part of the occupation administration. Gendarmes were given functions such as auxiliary police, accom...

• Ministry of Industry, Trade and Crafts, Prague
• Ministerium für Industrie, Handel und Gewerbe
• MPOŽ
• NAD 903

• Národní archiv
• 903
• English
• 1918-1942
• 453,6 linear metres of documents from which 452 linear meters are processed and inventoried and 1,6 linear meters are not inventoried.
• Updated 5 years ago

The archival fonds contains the records of the Ministry until its dissolution in 1942. Especially important are documents relating to the divestment of the Jewish population from economic life in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia.

• Ministerium für Wirtschaft und Arbeit, Prag
• MHP
• NAD 782
• Ministry of Economy and Work

• Národní archiv
• 782
• English
• 1942-1945
• 109 linear meters of documents, all are processed and inventoried.
• Updated 5 years ago

The Ministry of Economy and Work (Ministerstvo hospodářství a práce) was a result of the Heydrich´s reform of the Protectorate administration in 1942. In this period falls the total change of the Protectorate into a war economy. As the Aryazation of Jewish property was untill 1942 almost finished and the deportation of Bohemian and Moravian Jews to Ghetto Theresienstadt (Terezín) and other Ghettos and camps in the east started in 1941 most Holocaust relevant material in this collection is connected to the status of "mixed" Jews or Jews who were married to a non Jewish partner.

• 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...

• Dresdner Bank
• NAD 1335
• DB

• Národní archiv
• 1335
• English
• 1871-1944
• 1.32 linear meters of documents are processed and inventoried, 0.03 linear meters of documents are non-processed and inaccessible.
• Updated 5 years ago

The collection consists of minutes of the Executive Board of Dresdner Bank from October 1931 to December 1943. Furthermore, the collections consists of suggestions of the Board (May 1938 - December 1940), minutes of the meetings of the Directors of the Liquidation Commission (April 1935 - May 1938), minutes of the General Assembly (1870-1930), minutes of the Board (1871-1943), minutes of Committee Meetings (1914-1938) and minutes of the Executive Committee (1938-1943). The most relevant Holocaust-related material is the collection of minutes of the Executive Board of Dresdner Bank from Octo...

• The Office of the Czechoslovak delegate in the Commission for Prosecution of War Criminals
• ÚD
• NAD 615

• Národní archiv
• 615
• English
• 15 linear metres of documents from which 11 are processed and inventoried, 4 are not processed. The fonds is accessible.
• Updated 5 years ago

The fonds contains the documents and files coming from the office functioning and administration, incomplete records of the International Military Tribunal sessions (hearings and interrogations, various summaries), documentary materials for the trials (such as documents against K. von Neurath or K. H. Frank, documents of investigation and hunt for war criminals), incomplete lists of war criminals, and the correspondence of Bohumil Ečer and his assistant.

• The Czechoslovak Government Commission for Prosecution of Nazi War Criminals
• ČVKSNVZ
• NAD 1145

• Národní archiv
• 1145
• English
• 1959-1990
• 49 linear metres of documents which are not processed and inventoried, however the fonds is accessible.
• Updated 5 years ago

The fonds contains records, information and mailing of the commission, records of the commission meetings, administration files, documents copies, above all Nazi criminals extradition requests, documents about Nazi judges, war criminal lists etc.

• Presidium of Ministerial Council
• PMR - L

• Národní archiv
• 1006
• English
• 1940-1945
• 14,5 linear metres from which 14,5 linear metres of documents are processed and inventoried and accessible and 0,3 linear metres are unprocessed and not accessible.
• Updated 5 years ago

• NAD 517
• MF I
• Ministry of Finance
• Finanzministerium

• Národní archiv
• 517
• English
• 1918-1945
• The collection consists out of 344 linear meters of processed and inventoried documents. 56,1 linear meters are unprocessed and inaccessible.
• Updated 8 years ago

After the Munich Agreement in September 1938 and the establishment of the so called 2nd Czechoslovak Republic the new government in January 1939 took out a loan in Great Britain, part of which was set off as a support for the emigration of Czech and Moravian Jews to Palestine. On the base of a treaty between the Ministry of Finance and the Jewish Agency for Palestine the Czechoslovak Government supported Jewish emigration out of the country. Between October 1938 and July 1939 about 12 000 Jews left the country, mostly to Palestine. In the time of the Protectorate Bohemia and Moravia the Min...

• Ministry of public works, Prague
• Ministerium für öffentliche Arbeiten, Prag
• NAD 1004

• Národní archiv
• 1004
• English
• 1918-1942
• The fonds consists out of 490 linear meters of processed and inventoried documents. 28 linear meters are unprocessed and inaccessible.
• Updated 5 years ago

The Ministry of Public Works played a minor role in the persecution of the Jews in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. Although it was responsible for the development of infrastructure also in the years of the German occupation during taht Jews were used for Forced labour in this field, it seems that no documents in the collection are referring to that. According to the finding only boxes 2599 and 1649 are dealing with "the Jewish question".

• Ministry of Agriculture I - Secretary of the Protectorate Ministers, Prague
• Landwirtschaftsministerium I - Sektretariat der Protektoratsminister, Prag
• MZ I
• NAD 751_11

• Národní archiv
• 751_11
• English
• 1938-1945
• The fonds consists out of 10.6 linear meters of processed and inventoried documents.
• Updated 9 years ago

The fonds consists of the correspondence of the Ministers of Agriculture in the years of the Protectorate Bohemia and Moravia and a re covering the fields Agriculture, occupation, chambers of agriculture, agricultural labor, taxation, agricultural cooperatives, hunting, hop growing and agricultural statistics. Holocaust relevant material consists mainly out of documents about Aryanization of Jewish property in Agriculture and the exclusion of the Jewish population from specific agricultural products.

• National Aryan Cultural Union, Prague
• Nationalarische Union, Prag
• NAKJ
• NAD 677

• Národní archiv
• 677
• English
• 1939-1945
• The collection consists out of 1.25 linear meters of processed and inventoried documents which are all accessible.
• Updated 9 years ago

The National Aryan Cultural Union (Národní arijská kulturní jednota, NAKJ) was founded on 24th May 1939, officially as a non political society "to improve the situation of the national culture, spirit and peoples behaviour according to modern aryan principles". The association opened 20 branches in the Protectorate Bohemia and Moravia. Together with the fascist movements "Vlajka" (The Flag), "Národní tábor fašistická" (National Fascist Union) and "Fašistická garda" (Fascist guard) they unified in October 1939 to "Český národně socialistický tábor, ČNST" (Czech Nationalsocialist Union). In t...

• National Community, Prague
• Nationale Gemeinschaft
• N Sour.

• Národní archiv
• 453
• English
• 1939-1945
• The collection consists out of 30,5 linear meters of processed and inventoried documents. 0,62 linear meters are unprocessed and inaccessible.
• Updated 9 years ago

The National Community included all male citizens of the Protectorate Bohemia and Moravia. The membership was virtually a formality. The Preparatory Committee was established soon after the occupation, namely 21 March 1939 under President Hacha. The aim was to create a mass organization which would support the Protectorate government. Subsequently on 6th April 1939 the Národní souručenství was declared the only political party in the Protectorate. About ninety percent of the male population of the Protectorate were members of Národní souručenství. The organisation Národní souručenství was a...

• Ministry of Interior - London
• MV - L

• Národní archiv
• 828
• English
• 1940-1945
• 53,25 linear metres from which 53,25 linear metres of documents are processed and inventoried and 0,0 linear metres are unprocessed. The fonds is partially accessible.
• Updated 9 years ago

The fonds consists of documents of the Ministry of Interior and its departments. The state-security department kept records of all Czechoslovak citizens living in the Great Britain during the WWII and provided passports and visas and also their extension or verifications. The administrative and juristic department edited standpoints of the Ministry to the bills. The educational department took care about all matters of the Czechoslovak schools in Great Britain and also in foreign countries. The Ministry of Interior also cooperated with Czechoslovak intelligence service in the matters of sec...

• Czech League against Bolshevism
• ČLB
• ČLpB

• Národní archiv
• 739
• English
• 1944-1945
• The collection consists out of 0,5 linear meters of processed and inventoried documents.
• Updated 9 years ago

The official reason for the founding of the Czech League against Bolshevism (Česká liga proti bolševismu) was the Czechoslovak-Soviet treaty of alliance in December 1943 signed by Edvard Beneš in Moscow. The Founding General Meeting of the Czech League against Bolshevism (Česká liga proti bolševismu) was held 23rd January 1944 in Prague. The organization reported directly to the Ministry of Education and Propaganda, led by Emanuel Moravec. Since its founding until January 1945 the Liga organized 231 public speeches and lectures. The Propaganda of the Czech League against Bolshevism was not ...