Oberlandrat (Supreme District Councillor) of Moravská Ostrava
Extent and Medium
19,32 linear meters
Acquisition
The core of the fonds consists of materials detached from the registry of the District Office in Moravská Ostrava (currently the Archives of the City of Ostrava). Accessions have been added to these from other fonds (primarily the fonds NSDAP, district government of Moravská Ostrava and Moravian-Silesian Provincional National Committee, branch Ostrava). In 1961 the fonds was given a provisional inventory list, which is accessible on http://www.archives.cz/zao/digitalni_archiv.
Scope and Content
The fonds contains regular files from the activity of the Oberlandrat in Mährisch Ostrau (Supreme District Councillor in Moravská Ostrava). The most extensive part consists of questionnaires of citizens about the granting of citizenship from the years 1939–1943 and materials concerning Jewish history: purchase and renting of Jewish holiday chalets from the years 1940–1942 (inv. № 24), registrations of property of Jewish companies according to field of trading and areas from the year 1940 (inv. № 25–27) and primarily paperwork concerning the handling of Jewish real estate, its sale and library proceedings from the years 1939–1944 (inv. № 38).
System of Arrangement
The fonds consists only of Files arranged according to the organisational structure of the office. The series of files concerning the acquisition of citizenship and disposal of Jewish property are sorted in alphabetical order.
Finding Aids
Šmidák G.: Úřad vrchního zemského rady v Moravské Ostravě (Der Oberlandrat in M. Ostrau), 1939 – 1944. Prozatímní inventární seznam. Opava, Státní archiv, 1961, 14 s.
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
- Ostrava
- Moravská Ostrava