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  1. Treuhand- und Revisionsgesellschaft (German Administration of Seized Property) Brno

    The fonds of the German Administration of Seized Property Brno contains material from the Brno and Ostrava branch. The documents are divided according to branches into documents of institutions and physical persons whose property was seized. The seized property was mainly of Jewish origin.

  2. NSDAP – Local Group of Letovice

    The fonds contains documents of the local NSDAP Letovice group, inter alia correspondence with lists of Jews and their property.

  3. Commander of the Ordnungspolizei Moravia

    The fonds contains materials concerning the supervision of the German occupation administration over the Protectorate gendarmerie and police. Only the following sources concern the Jewish matters: Complaints about gendarmes due to their anti–German behaviour and their contacts with Jews 1941, Senior Constable, retired, Richard Rotrökl, concealment of Jewish money 1942.

  4. Internment Camp of Svatobořice

    The fonds contains sources about life in the internment camp, lists of internees, their wages, work deployment, correspondence. There were also Jews in the camp temporarily, about whom there may be records primarily in these documents Card Index of Internees (4 boxes) 1942–1944; Card Index of Sick Internees 1944 and Book of Sick Persons 1944, and possibly in other items.

  5. Headquarters of Uniformierteregierungspolizei (Uniformed Government Police) in Brno (1919) 1942–1945

    The fonds contains written material from the time of the occupation, and it is preserved in a fragmentary fashion. It contains the documents of the Headquarters of Uniformed Government Police and Headquarters of the Police Company. Here reports about transports of Jews primarily concern the Jewish matter. They are these documents: Damage to posters, distribution of leaflets, damage to company signs, the painting of anti–Jewish slogans, anti–German graffiti etc. 1939–1943; Jews – orders and regulations about presence and behaviour of Jews in public rooms and parks, marking of Jewish shops an...

  6. Provincial President in Brno, Administration by the Order of the Reich (1939–1945)

    This fonds is important for finding out about the political, cultural and economic history of occupied Moravia. It contains plans for the gradual Germanisation and liquidation of the Czech nation, and in it we find records about the Aryanization of Jewish property and establishment of forced administrators. The following archival records relate to the Jewish history: In the presidium files marked PA (timeframe not given) – Regulation on Jewish houses in Moravská Ostrava for the needs of the Protectorate police; Investigation of Jewish origin of Dr. Felix Riess from Nový Jičín. Information a...

  7. Gestapo of Brno

    The basis for the fonds consists of the surviving part of the registry office of the Brno branch of the Gestapo and all surviving rural stations in Moravia. The fonds contains the files of secured and investigated persons denounced for various reasons (listening to the radio, seditious speech against the Reich, sabotage etc.), records from actions conducted by the Gestapo against illegal resistance groups and actions conducted against Jews. The files also contain several hundred records about placement and escapes of persons from concentration, labour and other types of camps. Other records...

  8. Oberlandrat (Supreme District Councillor) of Vsetín

    The fonds contains material from just two months of activity of the office, but it contains valuable data concerning the start of the Nazi occupation of the Vsetín area, inter alia Reports of the District Office in Valašské Meziříčí, lists of municipalities, Jews, Germans and associations (1939).

  9. Auswanderungsfonds (Emigration Fund), Brno Office

    The Emigration Fund is important for discovering the size of Jewish home assets, and for drawing a conclusion from it about the scale of Nazi plundering of Jewish property. The files contain contracts about compulsory sale, official valuation of real estate, expressions of owners about state of real estate, extract from land registry, notification of office of land council about establishment of fiduciary, lease agreements, proceedings for the sale of real estate, inventory records and correspondence with tenants and caretakers and others. The frequent official records with date and number ...

  10. Land Office – Circuit Office of Brno

    The fonds contains surviving material from the Circuit Office of the Land office in Brno from the years of the Occupation 1939–1945. In it you can find these archival records concerning the Jewish history: applications of people interested in renting Jewish estates from the years 1939–1942; documents about Marie Aujeská from Boskovice and the purchase of Jewish property 1942; documents about Antonín Hřebaček from Podivín and the renting of Jewish property 1943; František Sedláček – transfer of his business do Bučovice to the Jewish buildings of Leontýna Stiasná 1940–1941; information about ...

  11. Customs Investigation Office, Brno Branch

    Among other things, the fonds provides details about confiscated Jewish property, securities, jewellery and precious metals, securing of Jewish deposits and bank accounts and permission of maintenance amounts from rare Jewish accounts. In some files, record is also contained of balances of Jewish businesses from the end of the 1st Republic. It is possible to see in the material the first wave of pogroms against the Jews, restriction of their economic influence, stripping of their social standing, property, options for emigration etc. The following types of items are then specifically specif...

  12. Oberlandrat (Supreme District Councillor) of Tišnov

    The fonds contains administration documents from the circuit of the supreme land councillor in Tišnov. In the fonds we can find an overview of the number of inhabitants (Czechs, Germans, Jews) in the districts of Tišnov, Nové Město na Moravě and Velké Meziříčí 1939; Order of the Land Office to inventory Jewish doctors; as of the date 23.3.1939; Prohibition on spontaneous Aryanization; as of the date 31.3.1939 – price control, marking of Jewish shops, holidays of employees.

  13. Resettlement Office of Ministry of the Interior in Vyškov

    The fonds documents in its full scope the occupation and displacement policy of the Germans in the Vyškov area, whose Czech inhabitants were impacted en-masse by repressive measures. The fonds contains details about the number of affected persons, their social status, property status etc. In the series part of the register we can find a list of Jewish property, its sale and renting to emigrants (1943).

  14. National Administration of the Assets – Circuit Office of Jihlava

    The fonds contains the files concerning the administration, seizure, post–war restitution and nationalisation of property of Jews and persons of hostile countries, primarily houses in the Jihlava region, western Moravia and certain houses in southern Bohemia. The fonds contains 2 books – list of restitutions and list of real estate. The files are sub–divided into several groups – files concerning general matters, files of returned real estate (classified according to location) and files concerning real estate transferred to the administration of national committees, communal enterprises or ...

  15. Pre-1963 Correspondence

    This large series of correspondence, traditionally referred to as the 'Pre 1963 Correspondence', broadly covers the period from the immediate aftermath of World War Two to just after Alfred Wiener's death. It covers a vast array of subject matter and contains 1600 correspondents including politicians, historians, theologians, resistance fighters, Holocaust survivors, civil servants and private researchers. Some of the more widely covered themes include Christian-Jewish relations; historiography; eyewitness testimony; restitution claims; postwar antisemitism

  16. Renate Collins collection

    Family papers belonging to Renate Collins. Includes correspondence from Renate’s mother Hilde, material documenting Renate’s move to England and ultimate adoption, and later material showing Renate’s family tree and the fates of family members under the Nazis.

  20. Beatrice Rozenberg collection

    This collection is comprised of 15 paintings of Holocaust victims as well as two boxes of material that are currently uncatalogued.The artist Beatrice Rozenberg (b.1913-d.1995) painted under the pseudonym Benedict Davies for some time. She studied at The Royal Academy Schools and exhibited at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibitions in 1935, 1939, 1941 and 1946.