Zentralstelle für jüdische Auswanderung in Böhmen und Mähren

• Czechoslovak Red Cross, London
• ČsČK-L
• NAD 634

• Národní archiv
• 634
• Czech, English
• 1940-1945
• The collection consists of 25 linear meters of processed and inventoried documents.
• Updated 6 months ago

The collection primarily consists of organisational material of the Czechoslovak Red Cross, including its main offices in London and its branches, as well as documents concerning their tasks. The annual report provides information about the medical and social care of Czechoslovak citizens in exile. The most important Holocaust-related documents in the collection of the Czechoslovak Red Cross - London include the card files and directories of Czechoslovak Jews who were interned in concentration camps erected shortly after the Reichskristallnacht in the Sudetengau, of Jews who were interned i...

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

• Národní archiv
• 517
• Czech, 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 6 months 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...