Landrat (District Councillor) of Krnov
Extent and Medium
162,84 linear meters
Acquisition
The documents of the fonds originally found in Krnov were taken over in 1956 by the State Archives in Opava. In 1957, part of the fonds was roughly categorised; in 1958, it was arranged and at the same time, the documents of the municipal office in Krnov, Pitárné and Fulštejn were removed from it. In 1986, the fonds was transferred from the former State District (today Provincial) Archives in Opava to the State District Archives in Bruntál.
Scope and Content
The fonds contains the documents of the German administration, including the policee, personnel, education, cultural and military matters, population card files, registers of foreign workers, Arbeitsbuch (labour book), personal documents, and more. The fonds also includes documents concerning the appointment of forced administrators of Jewish property and further disposal of former Jewish property, proposals for issuing ID cards to Jews, instructions for terminating the concession of persons of Jewish origin, lists of names of Jews and those with Jewish ancestry from Krnov, and the schooling of Jewish children.
System of Arrangement
The fonds is broken down as follows: I. Books, II. Card files of the people and associations in the Krnov administrative district, III. Files, IV. Maps and plans. The files are arranged according to their original signatures into various subject groups.
Finding Aids
Brzobohatý J. – Pravda K.: Landrát Krnov 1938-1945. Inventář, Opava 1959, 155 s., ev. č. 77.
Process Info
This archival description was created by the Jewish Museum in Prague in the framework of the cooperation between EHRI and the Yerusha project.
Places
- Krnov