Archival Descriptions

• Czechoslovak Red Cross, London
• ČsČK-L
• NAD 634

• Národní archiv
• 634
• Czech, English
• 1940-1945
• The collection consists of 25 linear meters of processed and inventoried documents.
• Updated 1 week ago

The collection primarily consists of organisational material of the Czechoslovak Red Cross, including its main offices in London and its branches, as well as documents concerning their tasks. The annual report provides information about the medical and social care of Czechoslovak citizens in exile. The most important Holocaust-related documents in the collection of the Czechoslovak Red Cross - London include the card files and directories of Czechoslovak Jews who were interned in concentration camps erected shortly after the Reichskristallnacht in the Sudetengau, of Jews who were interned i...

• Collection of the Czechoslovak school in the United Kingdom

• Národní archiv
• 1578
• English
• 1941-1945
• 1,3 linear metres of which 1,3 linear metres inventoried. The fonds is partially accessible.
• Updated 9 years ago

The collection consist of originals and copies of the various documents, such as copies of identity documents, birth certificates, writing pads, textbooks, school certificates, photographs, messages from teachers to parents (or to the legal representatives of children), memoirs, school notes, presentations and newspapers. These materials also relate to more than 670 mostly Jewish children saved by the Kindertransporte organised by Nicolas Winton and other rescuers.

• Ministry of Economy and Labour, Prague / MHP

• Národní archiv
• 782
• Czech, English
• 1942-1945
• 109 linear meters of documents, all are processed and inventoried.
• Updated 2 months ago

The Ministry of Economy and Labour (Ministerstvo hospodářství a práce) was a result of the Heydrich´s reform of the Protectorate administration in 1942. In this period falls the total change of the Protectorate into a war economy. As the Aryazation of Jewish property was untill 1942 almost finished and the deportation of Bohemian and Moravian Jews to Ghetto Theresienstadt (Terezín) and other Ghettos and camps in the east started in 1941 most Holocaust relevant material in this collection is connected to the status of "mixed" Jews or Jews who were married to a non Jewish partner.

• Supreme Administrative Court in Prague / NAD 470

• Národní archiv
• 470
• Czech, English
• 1918-1951
• Textual material 138 linear meters
• Updated 2 weeks ago

The presidium files may concern matters of civil servants. In addition to the legislative documentation, the presidium also retained all significant internal organizational materials that reflect the staffing, management and actions of the Supreme Administrative Court, etc. Very valuable may be their own court decisions, which describe the facts, allow for insight into such details of property and intentions of the complainant that are difficult to achieve elsewhere. Documents directly relating to Jews can also be found in the documents - information on the placement of Jews in Terezín, non...

• Ministry of Agriculture I - Secretary of the Protectorate Ministers, Prague
• Landwirtschaftsministerium I - Sektretariat der Protektoratsminister, Prag
• MZ I
• NAD 751_11

• Národní archiv
• 751_11
• English
• 1938-1945
• The fonds consists out of 10.6 linear meters of processed and inventoried documents.
• Updated 9 years ago

The fonds consists of the correspondence of the Ministers of Agriculture in the years of the Protectorate Bohemia and Moravia and a re covering the fields Agriculture, occupation, chambers of agriculture, agricultural labor, taxation, agricultural cooperatives, hunting, hop growing and agricultural statistics. Holocaust relevant material consists mainly out of documents about Aryanization of Jewish property in Agriculture and the exclusion of the Jewish population from specific agricultural products.

• Czech League against Bolshevism
• ČLB
• ČLpB

• Národní archiv
• 739
• Czech, English
• 1944-1945
• The collection consists out of 0,5 linear meters of processed and inventoried documents.
• Updated 2 months ago

The official reason for the founding of the Czech League against Bolshevism (Česká liga proti bolševismu) was the Czechoslovak-Soviet treaty of alliance in December 1943 signed by Edvard Beneš in Moscow. The Founding General Meeting of the Czech League against Bolshevism (Česká liga proti bolševismu) was held 23rd January 1944 in Prague. The organization reported directly to the Ministry of Education and Propaganda, led by Emanuel Moravec. Since its founding until January 1945 the Liga organized 231 public speeches and lectures. The Propaganda of the Czech League against Bolshevism was not ...

• Ministry of Justice, Prague
• MS

• Národní archiv
• 832
• Czech, English
• 1918-1953
• 299,5 linear metres of documents from which 299,5 linear metres are processed and inventoried and 8,5 linear metres are unprocessed. The fonds is partially accessible.
• Updated 1 month ago

In the fonds, there are documents and records from the legislative council, public prosecutors and judicial administration department. There are also files containing reports from the criminal department and the prison department. The jewish related documents are in several boxes concerning more the matter of antisemitism in the Czechoslovak republic in the thirties than the matter of holocaust. In the boxes there can be found complaints on Jewish notaries and layers and also their requests for granting permission to work in law practice. There are also lists (dated between years 1919-1945)...

• 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 5 months ago

• Committee for Refugee Assistance in Paris
• PVU
• NAD 658
• Comité d’Assistance aux Refugiés

• Národní archiv
• 658
• Czech, English
• 1936-1942
• The fonds consists of 47,84 linear meters of processed and inventoried documents. All material is accessible.
• Updated 5 months ago

The fonds Pomocný výbor pro uprchlíky, Paříž contains mainly of the correspondence of refugees, mainly from Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia and Poland, with the Comité d’Assistance aux Refugiés. The correspondence is sorted by surnames of the refugees. Czechoslovak refugees are organized separately. Box 322 contains correspondence of the Comité d’Assistance aux Refugiés with the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee and the other refugee organisations like the Schutzverband deutscher Schriftsteller.

• 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 2 weeks 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...

• Provincial Office in Prague
• Landesbehörde in Prag
• ZÚ

• Národní archiv
• 753
• Czech
• 1918-1953
• celkem: 2989,72 bm, zpracováno: 2714,4 bm, nezpracováno: 275,32 bm
• Updated 1 month ago

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

• Národní archiv
• 1145
• English
• 1959-1990
• 49 linear metres of documents which are not processed and inventoried, however the fonds is accessible.
• Updated 5 years 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 Industry, Trade and Crafts, Prague
• Ministerium für Industrie, Handel und Gewerbe
• MPOŽ
• NAD 903

• Národní archiv
• 903
• English
• 1918-1942
• 453,6 linear metres of documents from which 452 linear meters are processed and inventoried and 1,6 linear meters are not inventoried.
• Updated 5 years ago

The archival fonds contains the records of the Ministry until its dissolution in 1942. Especially important are documents relating to the divestment of the Jewish population from economic life in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia.

• Sippenamt for Bohemia and Moravia, Prague
• Rodopisný úřad pro Čechy a Moravu

• Národní archiv
• 790
• Czech, English
• 1939-1944
• The fonds consists out of 1,8 linear meters of processed and accessible documents. 5,4 linear meters are unprocessed and inaccessible.
• Updated 5 months ago

The fonds is incomplete. Of particular interest are documents from a survey of persons of Jewish descent in 1944.

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

• Národní archiv
• 1420
• 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 7 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