Národní archiv

• Polizeipräsidium Prag II
• Prague Police Directorate II
• PŘ II
• NAD 1420

• Národní archiv
• 1420
• Czech, English
• 1914-1953
• The fonds consists out of 4809,23 linear meters of processed and accessible documents. 4766,23 linear meters are inventoried and accessible documents. 84,34 linear meters are unprocessed and unaccessible.
• Updated 5 months ago

The fonds has informations about police, police authorities, criminal police, street police, passports, arms passports, national security, public safety, national security Corps, National Guard security, national security, police affairs, censorship, confiscation of print, personals, population registers and civil defense

• Ministry of Public Works, Prague
• MVP

• Národní archiv
• 1004
• English
• 1918-1942
• The fonds consists out of 491 linear meters of processed and inventoried documents (2980 boxes, 637 books, 2 card indexes), 33 linear meters are unprocessed and inaccessible.
• Updated 12 months 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 2649 are dealing with "the Jewish question".

• Amt des Reichsprotektors in Böhmen und Mähren, Prag
• Office of the Reichsprotector in Bohemia and Moravia, Prague
• ÚŘP

• Národní archiv
• 1005
• Czech, 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
• Updated 5 months ago

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...

• Presidium of Ministerial Council
• PMR - L

• Národní archiv
• 1006
• Czech, 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 6 months ago

• Ministry of Social Welfare - London
• MSP - L
• NAD 1007

• Národní archiv
• 1007
• Czech, 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 7 months 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...

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

• Národní archiv
• 1009
• Czech, 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 5 months 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...

• Special Correspondent of the Czechoslovak Press Office, Nuremberg
• NAD 1023

• Národní archiv
• 1023
• Czech, English
• 1945-1949
• 6,2 linear metres of documents from which all are processed and inventoried. The fonds is fully accessible.
• Updated 5 months ago

The fonds consists of the documents and files created by Rostislav Kocourek the only special correspondent working for the Czech Press Office in Nuremberg in 1945 – 1949. The documents contains his correspondence with Bohumil Ečer, the Czechoslovak delegate in the Commission, stenographic records from the trials, hearings of witnesses, information to each defendant, Commission conclusions such as the list and the characteristics of Nazi organizations, crimes committed on the Czechoslovak territory, hand written notes, outlines and drafts etc. Documents were selected to be used for a journal...

• Ministry of Labour and Social Welfare / MPSP

• Národní archiv
• 1028
• Czech
• 1945-1951
• celkem: 179,5 bm, zpracováno: 90 bm (700 kartonů), nezpracováno: 89,5 bm
• Updated 5 months ago

Fond obsahuje cenné materiály k hospodářským a sociálním otázkám Československa v prvních poválečných letech. Jedná se mj. o záležitosti organizace a rozmisťování pracovních sil, platových poměrů v různých hospodářských odvětvích, sociálního zabezpečení, péče o mládež, pomoci a podpory válečným poškozencům, tedy i osobám vracejícím se z koncentračních táborů apod. S ohledem na problematiku holokaustu je naprosto zásadní materiál poválečné restituční agendy vztahující se na majetek zabavený v letech 1938-1945 (nezpracovaná část fondu), jíž bylo MPSP pověřeno. Žadatelé nebo jejich právní zást...

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

• Národní archiv
• 1063
• English
• 1951-1969
• Textual material 27 linear meters
• Updated 3 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...

• Foreign Press Archive, New York / NAD 1066

• Národní archiv
• 1066
• English
• 1939-1946
• Textual material 588,62 linear meters
• Updated 7 months ago

The Clippings Archive of the Second Resistance, known since 1942 as the Czechoslovak Archives in New York, was part of the Czechoslovak Information Center in New York and is associated with the name of its founder, Arne Laurin. Thanks to him, a unique archive of clippings was created, gathering clippings mainly on foreign political and military events during the Second World War, on the situation in the Protectorate and also on the Second Czechoslovak Foreign Resistance. The fonds also contains newspaper clippings on the Jewish community in Czechoslovakia and anti-Jewish measures in the lat...

• Ministry of Interior I., Prague
• NAD 1075

• Národní archiv
• 1075
• Czech, English
• 1918-1948
• The fonds consists out of 2147 linear meters of processed and inventoried documents. 214 linear meters are unprocessed and inaccessible.
• Updated 5 months ago

Documents of this fonds illustrate the broad scope of the agenda of the Ministry of Interior. It included, apart from the security and administrative matters, also minority and language issues, citizenship, population register, press and censorship issues, and also the agenda of the then non-existing Ministry of Social Welfare. The most valuable documents can be found mainly in the presidial part the fonds, where the events of the period can be studied from the situation reports of district and provincial authorities. Documents relating to the history of the Holocaust can mainly be found in...

• Ministry of Interior I - old registry, Prague / NAD 1075/2

• Národní archiv
• 1075/2
• Czech, English
• 1918-1944
• Textual material 965,15 linear meters
• Updated 8 months ago

The fonds as a whole provides information on the activities of the state authorities during the first Czechoslovak Republic and the so-called autonomous administration at the beginning of the Nazi occupation. For researchers, the most valuable part is the legislative issues, issues of organization of political administration, federal affairs, elections, and national and autonomous affairs. The fonds also stores valuable material on economic history. Jews are explicitly mentioned in the following documents: reports on the activities of national committees and the memorandum of the Jewish Nat...

• Occupation prisoners files
• OVS/KT-OVS

• Národní archiv
• 1077
• Czech, English
• 1938-1948
• 160,8 linear metres from which 160,8 linear metres of documents are processed and inventoried and accessible and 41,8 linear metres are unprocessed and probably not accessible.
• Updated 5 months ago

In this collection, there are documents related to Czechoslovak citizens who were imprisoned in German jails and in the concentration camps. There are also files related to (Czechoslovak) Jews, or persons of Jewish nationality, who were gathered and then deported to the Terezín ghetto and the concentration camps. Furthermore in these files, there are information about "death marches" and about post-war repatriation.

• Presidium of the Ministerial Council, Prague / NAD 1082

• Národní archiv
• 1082
• Czech, English
• 1918-1945
• Textual material 632,90 linear meters
• Updated 5 months ago

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). ...

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

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

• Ministry of Labour and Social Welfare - repatriation, Prague
• Ministerium für Arbeit und soziale Wohlfahrt - Repatriierung, Prag
• MPSP-R

• Národní archiv
• 1146
• Czech, 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.
• Updated 5 months ago

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...

• PhDr. Alena Hájková / NAD 1226

• Národní archiv
• 1226
• English
• 1929-1997
• Textual material Photographic images 6,75 linear meters
• Updated 3 years ago

The personal fonds of historian Alena Hájková is a valuable source of information relating to the issue of racial discrimination against the Jewish population and the beginnings of Jewish resistance in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. The fonds contains mainly her manuscripts of scientific works related to the anti-Nazi resistance with a focus on the Jewish resistance. The fonds contains manuscripts of works such as The List of Jews in 1939-1941, Participation of Jews in the Czech Resistance Movement, The Disappeared Ones in the First Months of the Occupation, and Administration in ...

• Doc. PhDr. Josef Fischer / NAD 1306

• Národní archiv
• 1306
• English
• 1891-1945
• Textual material Photographic images 2,80 linear meters
• Updated 3 years ago

The personal fonds of Doc. PhDr. Josef Fischer, a prominent Czech philosopher, sociologist, translator, and participant in the domestic anti-Nazi resistance, is a valuable source for understanding his personality and work, for understanding the intellectual and spiritual atmosphere of the interwar Czechoslovakia, and for studying the issues of the domestic non-communist resistance. The documents related to the resistance activities of the author, especially the letters and secret messages of doc. J. Fischer from prison are a valuable source. The fodns also contains the extensive corresponde...

• Archive of the Syndicate of Journalists, Prague / NAD 1308

• Národní archiv
• 1308
• English
• 1877-1998
• Textual material 244 linear meters
• Updated 3 years ago

The archive, founded by the predecessor of the Syndicate of Journalists of the Czech Republic, is an extremely valuable collection of documents resulting from the activities of individual journalistic clubs, associations and organizations. The membership records include the files of members of journalistic organizations who were of Jewish origin or who were later persecuted for being Jewish. The fonds also includes the small estates of several journalists of Jewish origin: František Bauer (7 September 1897, Turnov - 1 October 1967, Prague), Oskar Butter (25 January 1886, Rohozec u Podbořany...

• Dresdner Bank
• NAD 1335
• DB

• Národní archiv
• 1335
• Czech, 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 months 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...