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  1. Archiv města Bechyně

    • Archives of the Town of Bechyně / NAD 390

    The fonds contains documents of the local self-government, deeds, books, file material and accounting material. Information of Jews can be found in documents from 1826 and 1939-1945 (persecution of Jews during the Nazi occupation, inventories of Jewish property, Jewish flats, Kohn's lands).

  2. Okresní úřad Zlín I.

    • District Office Zlín I / NAD 153

    The fonds contains documents of public administration, official books, files, accounting material and associated agenda. Jews are mentioned in the presidium files of the Zlín District Office, these often being measures, circulars, instructions and orders of higher instances such as: an investigation into anti-Jewish leaflets distributed in the Zlín region in 1936 and 1938; trips of retired German officers of the Jewish faith to the Czechoslovak Republic; measures in the district of Zlín in 1937; the number of Jewish refugees moving into the district of the Zlín political district in 1937; m...

  3. Okresní úřad Tábor I.

    • District Office of Tábor I / NAD 1

    The fonds contains documents of the Tábor District Office from (1808) 1850-1945 (1958), official books, files, accounting material, and others. The documents concern municipal affairs, population movements (1869-1910 census), emigration, residence right, education, health, police, construction, poverty, charity, agriculture, trades, finance, and the military. The fonds also contains correspondence on Jewish registries, documents on the Jewish religious communities of Choustník, Chýnov, Jistebnice, Radenín, Tučapy, Soběslav, and Tábor, documents concerning the construction of a Jewish cemete...

  4. Archiv města Soběslav

    • Archives of the Town of Soběslav / NAD 240

    The fonds contains documents of the local self-government, deeds, official books, files and accounting material. Information on Jews can be found in individual items in the thematic group Religious life in the town, Jews, 1850-1943; and Persecution of Jews, 1920-1945.

  5. Archiv města Jistebnice

    • Archives of the Town of Jistebnice / NAD 489

    The fonds contains documents of the local self-government, official books, files and accounting material. Information on Jews can be found in documents from 1628-1945. Before 1850, these only individual items (a printed patent against the Jews 1725; a testimony of the Jewish population in a dispute 1726; the interrogation of Eliška, a Jew, accused of selling stolen goods 1727). After 1850, these are registry matters, and from the period of WW II the persecution of Jews.

  6. Archiv města Kamenice nad Lipou

    • Archives of the Town of Kamenice nad Lipou / NAD 307

    The fonds contains documents, official books, and files. Jews are explicitly mentioned in the following documents: deprivation of the membership of Jew Leo Wertheimer in the council (inv. No. 328); refugees from Galicia (inv. No. 380); list of Jewish children as summer guests for recovery (inv. No. 383); apartments after Jews (inv. No. 526); lists of Jews (inv. No. 552); Jewish affairs - self-employed persons, teacher of religion, establishment of a canteen, resignation of a head, riots against Jews, kosher butcher's work, regulations regarding the origin and property of Jews 1851-1944 (inv...

  7. Archiv městečka Slušovice

    • Archives of the Town of Slušovice / NAD 932

    At the end of the 18th century, Jewish businessman Marek Knöpfelmacher from Holešov gained a lease of a distillery yard with land and meadows from the nobility (emphyteusis). In the coming generations, several other Jewish entrepreneurs took turns on this property. Individuals of the Jewish faith began to settle in Slušovice after 1848 from the surrounding communities (Holešov, Bystřice pod Hostýnem, Vrbětice). In 1885, 7 Jewish families were registered in Slušovice. The fonds contains documents of the municipality of Slušovice, deeds, official books, files, and accounting material. Informa...

  8. Okresní soud Tábor I.

    • District Court of Tábor I / NAD 69

    The fonds contains documents of the Tábor I District Court from the years 1850-1949 (1984), concerning the civil and criminal agendas, as well as the agenda for the establishment of new land registers. As part of the inheritance agenda (file no. D), there are the inheritance proceedings of Jews who died during World War II, for example in concentration camps, dealt with especially in 1946.

  9. Okresní soud Bechyně

    • District Court in Bechyně / NAD 70

    The fonds contains documents of the Bechyně District Court from the years (1849) 1850-1949 concerning the civil and criminal agendas, as well as the agenda for the establishment of new land registers. Information on Jews can be found in expropriation documents ordered by the Gestapo during the Nazi occupation, and the inheritance agenda (file No D) of Jews perished in WW II in concentration camps dealt with in 1946.

  10. Svaz protifašistických bojovníků - ústřední výbor, Praha (1945) 1951–1969

    • Union of Anti-Fascist Fighters - Central Committee, Prague / NAD 1063
    • Národní archiv
    • 1063
    • English
    • 1951-1969
    • Textual material 27 linear meters

    The documents of the Union of Anti-Fascist Fighters are an important source of information on the resistance and resistance of the Czechs and Slovaks in 1914-1918, the domestic and foreign anti-Nazi resistance in 1939-1945, including the Jewish resistance, and the victims of racial and political persecution and prisoners of Nazi prisons and concentration camps. The fonds contains, among other things, fragments of the documents of the predecessors of the Union of Anti-Fascist Fighters. These are mainly personnel records, questionnaires, protocols, minutes, documents relating to illegal resis...

  11. Baťova nemocnice, Zlín

    • Baťa Hospital, Zlín / NAD 1910

    A large part of the Baťa hospital staff consisted of Jewish doctors, of whom more than two dozen worked at the hospital at the end of the 1930s. Some of them left Baťa's hospital to set up private surgeries or went to another hospital. However, most of them left the Baťa Hospital because of anti-Jewish measures introduced by the after-Munich Czechoslovakia. The fonds contains documents on the hospital operation, personnel matters, and accounting material. Information on Jews can be found a document recapitulating the result of anti-Jewish measures from 1939: Report on the departure of 23 Je...

  12. EHRI Early Testimony

    As the persecution and mass murder of European Jews unfolded, and shortly after the liberation, activists set out to document the fate of their communities. Jewish historical committees in several countries collected documents, artifacts and testimonies and brought together a major body of evidence - yet one which was later forgotten or used reluctantly. The edition, for the first time, brings together samples of early testmonies of Jewish witnesses and survivors taken before the 1960s.

  14. Gestapo HQ Berlin: copy order re dissolution of B'nai Brith, Berlin

    Copy order from the Gestapo Headquarters, Berlin, to the chair of the B'nai Brith, Berlin, stating that B'nai Brith will be dissolved forthwith and that all the organisation's property will be confiscated (19 Apr 1937) copy nd

  15. Refugee organisations UK: notes

    These contemporary notes on the various refugee aid committees based at Bloomsbury House, London, give some idea of the provision, which existed for refugees during the war.

  16. Leaflet on regulations re life in Nazi Germany - no date

    This is a fragment of a leaflet containing regulations on various aspects of social and cultural life in Nazi Germany. Subjects covered in the leaflet include matters concerning the concept of the German Race; change of name/ title of unmarried women; Hitler Youth; travel and restaurant coupons; income from sub-letting; working clothes for farmers; memorial notices for soldiers killed in the war.

  17. Jewish Youth Federation, Holland: Copy report of 22nd AGM

    Report on the 22nd AGM of the Joodsche Jeugd Federatie (Jewish Youth Federation) 

  18. Passover Haggadah, handwritten at Gurs internment camp, France

    Original manuscript Passover Haggadah in Hebrew with transliteration, edited by Leo Ansbacher at Gurs internment camp, France. Covering Date: Apr 1941

  19. Clive Teddern: The Hyphen News and other papers

    The bulk of the collection is materials produced in Clive Teddern’s role as editor of The Hyphen News. Also included are his memoirs and papers of the Otto Hirsch Chapter of the B'nai B'rith Youth Organisation.

  20. Edith Newton (née Kramm) collection

    This collection comprises mostly correspondence between Edith Newton née Kramm, a Jewish refugee from Austria, and Paul Newton, formerly Neugröschel, also a Jewish refugee probably from Austria. In addition there is some general correspondence including official correspondence related to Naturalisation and a collection of photographs.