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Country: Czechia

  1. Oberlandrat (Supreme District Councillor) of Moravská Ostrava

    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 libra...

  2. Amtsgericht (District Court) of Mariánské Lázně

    The fonds contains record books and files from the activity of the Amtsgericht (district court) Mariánské Lázně. The files have survived lacunal. Criminal matters are wholly absent, and neither the civil nor library administration task areas have survived completely. The administrative files apply primarily to the organisation and functioning of the court and its employees. The civil administration task area includes civil disputes, auctions and enforced administrations, property seizures and family law. The library administration primarily contains files concerning debt servicing. The fond...

  3. Amtsgericht (District Court) of Cheb

    The fonds contains record books and files from the activity of the Amtsgericht (district court) Cheb and documents of the associated inheritance court. Out of the registry finding aids, the entire series of general and civil registers, registers of work disputes, forced administrations of real estate, debtors, inheritance and family law and criminal registers for example have survived. In the department of the medical court, there are preserved registers of care about race, with a list of names from 1940–1944 (inv. № 100–102). In addition to the directives and organisational matters of the ...

  4. Landrat (District Councillor) of Mariánské Lázně

    The fonds contains the fragmentary surviving documents from the activity of the office of German state administration on the territory of the Sudetenland for the district of Mariánské Lázně. In the part of the fonds including books there is a list of businesses and people subject to supervision of the area control office from the years 1938–1945 (inv. № 1), also books concerning the payment of social benefits from 1941–1945 (inv. № 2-6), list of names for book about family relations (Familienbuch) from 1938 (inv. № 7) and two accounting books. Out of the files, only a small fraction of acco...

  5. Landrat (District Councillor) of Aš

    The fonds contains record and accounting books, registry finding aids and files from the activity of the office of German state administration on the territory of the Sudetenland for the district Aš. In the section containing matters from the area of competence of the alien police, under inv. № 132 there are applications of Czech and Jewish firms for the return of property from 1939. In the part of the fonds kept under inv. № 133, lists are included of Czech and Jewish refugees from 1938–1940. In the section of sovereign matters, in the context of housing under inv. № 408 there are lists of...

  6. Landrat (District Councillor) of Cheb

    The fonds contains record and accounting books, registry finding aids and files from the activity of the office of German state administration on the territory of the Sudetenland for the district Cheb. In the section Kult I – School matters, under inv. № 308 there are files concerning the teaching of Gypsy and Jewish children from 1940–1944. Under inv. № 329 files are kept about school matters of Jews from 1939.

  7. Cristallum - Arnold Schönbek and Comp., the Production and Export of Crystal Glass and Reflecting Telescopes, Splzov (Spilzow, Splzow)

    Fragmentarily preserved fonds contains customary business documents (business license, accounting, list of employees). One of the partners Isidor Blum was of Jewish origin, with reference thereto in inv. No. 7 Resignation of Jewish affiliates from the company in 1938-1939.

  8. Reichs Archive in Liberec

    The fonds of the Reichs Archives Liberec, in department H – Archival matters holds the file Jewish archival records from 1939–1941 (inv. № 112). This relates to the fate of Jewish registers from the Sudetenland district (locations Jablonec nad Nisou, Mikulov, Pohořelice, Rumburk, Šafov, Teplice and Trutnov) and their storage in archives and at local offices. The file also includes requests by offices for statements from Jewish registers.

  9. Reichs Prosecutor´s Office of Liberec

    The fonds contains files of the judicial agenda from the district of the Land Court Liberec from 1938–1945. General and collective files are preserved in the fonds, only fragments of staff files. Proper files of the criminal agenda capture cases relating to murders, suicides, robberies, moral and property offences, major road and rail accidents, unauthorised contact with prisoners etc. Individual cases relating to the Jewish population can be traced in the registers and indices (inv. № 1–148).

  10. Reichs Prosecutor´s Office of Česká Lípa

    The fonds contains files of the judicial agenda from the district of the Land Court Česká Lípa from 1938–1945. General and collective files are preserved in the fonds, as well as staff files. Proper files of the criminal agenda capture cases relating to murders, suicides, robberies, moral and property offences, major road and rail accidents, unauthorised contact with prisoners etc. Index Js holds records of political offences which were forwarded to the People’s Court of Justice in Berlin (high treason, treason, sabotage). Individual cases relating to the Jewish population can be traced in ...

  11. Reichs Prosecutor´s Office of Most

    The fonds contains files of the criminal agenda from the district of the Land Court Most which relate to the whole range of criminal offences. Files relating to the violent extermination of the Jews by members of the SA and SS from 1938–1939 (reference Js, inv. № 39-42) and criminal files, for example documenting looting of Jewish property (reference Kls and KMs) are of importance for the history of the Jews.

  12. Reichs Prosecutor´s Office of Litoměřice

    The fonds contains files of the judicial agenda from the district of the Land Court Litoměřice. General and collective files are preserved in the fonds, as well as staff files. Proper files of the criminal agenda capture cases relating to political offences, serious social cases, murders, suicides, robberies, moral and property offences, major road and rail accidents, unauthorised contact with prisoners etc. Index Js holds records of political offences which were forwarded to the People’s Court of Justice in Berlin (high treason, treason, sabotage). Records of additional investigation of in...

  13. Landgericht (Reichs Regional Court) of Liberec

    The fonds contains documents from the activity of the Reichs regional court. Documents are preserved in the fonds relating to liquidation of Jewish companies. Court files – Bankruptcies are preserved from 1938–1940 (inv. № 35). Ownership changes of the companies of individuals and joint stock companies are documented by books of company records held according to official courts from 1939–1945 (inv. no. 37–68) and files of individual companies (inv. № 71–74).

  14. Landgericht (Reichs Regional Court) of Česká Lípa

    The fonds contains documents of the regular agenda of the regional court in the period of occupation. Documents are preserved in the fonds relating to liquidation of Jewish companies. Court files – Bankruptcies are preserved from 1938–1942 (inv. № 13). Ownership changes of the companies of individuals and joint stock companies are documented by books of company records held according to district courts from 1939-1945 (inv. № 15–36) and files of individual companies (inv. № 41).

  15. Landgericht (Reichs Regional Court) of Most

    The fonds contains documents from the activity of the regional court in the period of the occupation. Documents are preserved in the fonds relating to liquidation of Jewish companies. This concerns court files: Bankruptcies from 1939–1942 (inv. № 256, 257), Bankruptcy settlement from 1940–1941 (inv. № 258). Ownership changes of the companies of individuals and joint stock companies are documented by books of company records held according to Amtsgerichts (district courts) from 1939–1945 (inv. № 273-295).

  16. Landgericht (Reichs Regional Court) of Litoměřice

    The fonds contains incompletely preserved documents from the activity of the Landgericht (Reichs Regional Court) of Litoměřice and affiliated Sondergericht (Special Court). The fonds contains books with company records held according to district courts from 1939–1945 (inv. № 462–489), which document ownership changes in the companies of individuals and joint stock companies in 1939–1945.

  17. Oberlandesgericht (Reichs Supreme Regional Court) of Litoměřice

    This is the most important of all fonds of the occupation judiciary within the territory of the Sudetenland region. The general files contain files regarding legal representation of Jews: Procedural agents (Jewish consultants) (1938–1943), the Jewish consultant Dr. Oswald Israel Glück with registered office in Cheb (1939–1944), the Jewish consultant Dr. Hans Israel Wolf with registered office in Liberec (1939–1942), the Jewish consultant Dr. Richard Israel Pollak with registered office in Opava (1939–1941), the Jewish consultant Dr. Erwin Israel Kunstwälder in Opava (1939–1943), the Jewish ...

  18. Collection of Nazi Occupation Documents of Various Provenance

    Only individual items have been preserved with regards to the history of the Jews within the territory of the Sudetenland region. The file Private legal requirements towards emigrated Jews contains a letter from the Office of the Government President of 22.2.1940 (inv. № 78). The file Jews, 1941–1943 holds materials regarding pertinence of Protectorate Jews under the Reich Association of Jews, use of means of transport by Jews, introduction of the obligation of Jews to be labelled as such and requests for waiving of this (inv. № 96). The file Anti-Semitic acts and measures, 1939 contains in...

  19. Stillhaltekomissar für Organisationen (Continuity Commissioner for Organisations) in Liberec

    The fonds contains materials on Jewish communities, associations and foundations within the territory of the former district of the Sudetenland, liquidated upon cession of the Sudetenland to Germany. Part of the fonds, held under inv. № 6, have individual folders ordered alphabetically by municipality: file 43 – Jewish religious community Karlovy Vary (Karlsbad in German): billing for demolition of the synagogue and land underneath it, tax from the cemetery plot, Jewish foundation and Jewish spa house; folder 46 – statement from the land register with regards to the synagogue in Úštěk (Ausc...

  20. Association of German Municipalities, Office for the Sudetenland in Liberec

    The fonds id divided according to the association departments: Department 123 – Alien, passport and reporting police of the fonds contains file № 11 Jews. This relates to care for Jews from privileged mixed marriages affected by the war from 1942–1943 (inv. № 195). Department 360 – Church matters contains file № 22 – Cemeteries. This relates to issues of dissolution and closure of Jewish cemeteries in the following locations: Budišov nad Budišovkou, Drmoul, Sokolov, Šenov u Nové Jičína, Teplice and Vrchlabí, 1940–1941 (inv. № 285).