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Language of Description: English
Holding Institution: Moravský zemský archiv v Brně

  1. Head of the Zivilverwaltung (Civilian Administration) of Brno

    The fonds contains files from 15.3.–15.4.1939. There are very few political documents in the fonds, one reason being that some of the files of the head of civilian administration were transferred to the fonds B 251 Reichs Protector, office Moravia in Brno. Following records concerning Jews are deposited in the fonds: Price control, Jewish property; Brno-venkov (German commissioner in Židlochovice and Kounice, situation in Oslavany, Jews in Ivančice); Moravská Ostrava (Vítkovice steelworks, influence of Jews, supply problems, appointment of commissioners in towns, unclear matters with Poland...

  2. Reichsprotektor in Bohemia and Moravia, Station for Province of Moravia, Brno

    The fonds contains documents of the supreme political administration of Moravia documenting the Germanisation intentions of the Nazis, their penetration into and attempt to gradually control all areas of life. Materials have been preserved concerning Germanisation, the determination of domicile and citizenship and race, occupation, price economics and also Aryanization. In the fonds we can find much material relating to the history of the Jews in Moravia during the Protectorate and Second World War. For example, these materials are kept here: Report of NSDAP in Brno from September 1941 abou...

  3. Inspector of the Uniformierteprotektoratspolizei (Uniformed Protectorate Police) in Moravia

    Only some of the documents have survived from the fonds of the Inspector of Uniformed Protectorate Police in Moravia, but its significance is not small. It contains books of daily reports, reports about sabotage, Czech resistance and police organisations, reports on history of partisan movement, secret files of police officers, requests for draft to police etc. The file Establishment of Jewish Transit Camps 1942 concerns Jewish history.

  4. NSDAP – Local Groups of Břeclav

    The fonds contains sources primarily for the organisation NSDAP and its elements and related associations in Břeclav and Poštorná. The List of Inhabitants of Břeclav with data about nationality (Germans, Czechs, Slovaks, Bulgarians, Poles, Jews) and their membership in Nazi organisations in 1939 concerns the Jews.

  5. NSDAP of Vyškov

    The fonds contains documents of the local NSDAP group from the years 1939–1944. In the original call № there were Jewish matters, court matters: Jewish property, German court in Brno, racial policy. According to the current layout, the documents concerning Jewish matters are split up amongst several thematically arranged binders, for example resettlement of Jews; Centre for Jewish Emigration; Jewish apartments; also many documents concerning Jewish property or its sale or about inhabitants of Jewish race.

  6. Landgericht (Reichs Regional Court) of Znojmo

    The fonds contains court materials from the time of the occupation of southern Moravia by Nazi Germany. The cases of fraud involving Jewish property are relates specifically to the files of Otto Novosad, 30.11.1907 Břeclav; Jan Paw, 17.5.1912 Břeclav; Vojtěch Žurek, 15.8.1898 Břeclav; Marie Konečná, 18.8.1906 Břeclav; Rudolf Tesař, 16.5.1919 Břeclav; Anna Kocián, 31.8.1910 Poštorná; Marie Riederová, 7.9.1892 Vienna.

  7. Landgericht (Reichs Provicial Court) of Brno

    The fonds contains documents from the activities of the Landgericht (Reichs Provincial Court) in Brno from the time of occupation by Nazi Germany. In the civil agenda, the only document relating to Jews is the Administrative Files (Attorneys, representation of Czech and Jewish parties); in the criminal agenda, this includes mainly records regarding Jewish property: Hein Artur 29.5.1883, Moravská Ostrava – non-reporting of Jewish property; Kaštický Gustav 8.7.1907, Brněnské Ivanovice – thefts of Jewish property; Stolaříková Anna 10.7.1918 Luhačovice – Jewish property; Tichý Ladislav 20.3.191...