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  1. J. A. Kluge, Horní Staré Město

    The extant records are important sources for the history of flax industry in the Trutnov region from the period of the First Republic and the German occupation, but often also have a wider import beyond the region. They document the use of Jewish female prisoners and POWs as forced labour at the J. A. Klug Company's plants. Invoices and bills of lading from 1943–1945 have been preserved almost in their entirety; these can provide evidence of the company's business relations and of the deliveries of products to customers during the Second World War. The fonds contains photographs of the indi...

  2. Ignáz Etrich Limited Partnership, Horní Staré Město

    The fonds contains records of the Ignác (Ignaz) Etrich Limited Partnership in Horní Staré Město. Accounting records are the best preserved of the documents relating to the company's activities; they comprise a long and consistent series of ledgers dating from the first half of the 20th century until the company's nationalization. The accounts from the period of Nazi occupation include some records that relate to the use of Jewish female prisoners.

  3. Amtsgericht (District Court) of Trutnov

    The archival fonds of the Amtsgericht (district court) in Trutnov contains judicial administration records and includes material concerning Jewish issues. Box 5 has material relating to Jewish lawyers, the liquidation of Jewish law offices and the appointment of lawyers in 1938–1944. Box 25 has various records, for example relating to the appointments of commissioners for Jewish industrial plants in 1940–1941.

  4. Amtsgericht (District Court) of Žacléř

    The fonds of the Amtsgericht (District Court) in Žacléř includes sources of the judicial administration. The data about the persecution of Jewish people during the Nazi occupation can be found in the file labeled The Settlement between the Crown and the Reichsmark in the Sudetenland Territory, dealing with the foreign currency funds of Jews and Poles - generally from 1941, filing No. 13, inv. No. 154, call No. 72. In the fonds there are also files relating to churches and religious associations where information on the Jewish population of the judicial district can be found, too.

  5. Amtsgericht (District Court) of Hostinné

    The archival fonds of the Amtsgericht (district court) in Hostinné contains German judicial administration records and includes the following archival documents that relate to Jewish property: forced administration, 2–15 (incl. Pfefferkorn, Almus, Frischmann), 1939, Box 1; forced administration, 18–34 (incl. Dědek, Fuchs and Nettl, Freund), 1939, Box 1.

  6. Amtsgericht (District Court) of Vrchlabí

    The archival fonds of the Amtsgericht (district court) in Vrchlabí contains judicial administration records and includes the following relevant sources: the confiscation of Jewish property – general matters from 1939–1944, appendices from 1939–1943 (Box 1); a list of forced administrators in the jurisdiction of the Amtsgericht in Vrchlabí (Box 5), Jewish legal advisers, 1939–1943 (Box 25), care of property in absentia (Box 116), instructions for working meetings, circulars (including instructions for the handling of Jewish bank accounts, a list of Jews from 1941, instructions for the handli...

  7. District Gendarmerie Headquarters of Trutnov

    The archival fonds of the Trutnov District Gendarmerie Headquarters contains records from 1938. As the records are kept in a single box, it may be assumed that they are only a fraction of the creator's original files. All that has been preserved are various reports of crimes and offences. The reports include information on the posting of anti-Jewish posters in Jičín, on the appointment of the forced administrator Stöhr from Rochlitz to the Jewish firm of D. Glaser (a mechanical spinning mill), on an anti-Jewish gathering in Vrchlabí on 10 November 1938, on the arrest of Jews from Vrchlabí o...

  8. Gendarmerie Station in Poříčí (near Trutnov)

    The fonds of the Gendarmerie Station of Poříčí near Trutnov contains records from between 1938 and 1944. Among the main documents relating to Jewish matters is a list of Jewish businesses and Jewish businessmen from Poříčí, which is kept in Box 1673 under File Ref. Nos. 1–46 from 1938. Box 1673 also contains information on various regulations concerning the Jewish population, including an order prohibiting Polish Jews from entering the Sudetenland territory (Box 1673, File Ref. Nos. 12–63, 1939). Box 1674 contains, among other things, files with information on the founding of the labour cam...

  9. Landratsamt (District Councillor's Office) of Vrchlabí

    This fonds contains records of the Vrchlabí-based Landrat (district councillor). The following material relates to Jewish issues: correspondence with the Gestapo concerning Jews, 1940 (Inv. No. 5, Box 3); an official census of inhabitants and enumeration of factories, 1939 (Inv. No. 16, Box 33); weddings and racial policy, 1939-1945 (Inv. No. 18, Boxes 43-44A); anti-Jewish measures, 1938–1939 (Inv. No. 49, Box 489). It is highly likely that there are also records relating to Jews in other parts of the fonds that are not mentioned here. Records in the fonds that relate to elements hostile to...

  10. Landrat (District Councillor) of Lanškroun

    The archival fonds include official sources, among others adjustments of the occupation border, personal and organizational matters, trade, registry and financial matters of the municipalities and the district. Two inventory numbers are related to the Jewish history: Aryanization of the Tutsch and Neffe Jamné (Sobkovice) Jewish company and Handling the property of elements inimical to the German Reich, Czech and Jews – general regulations, correspondence.

  11. Landrat (District Councillor) of Králíky

    The archival fonds includes documents related to the accounting and social work matters, correspondence, filing cabinets and statistics. There is one inventory number concerning Jewish history directly: an overview of homesteads left by Czech and Jewish refugees.

  12. Landrat (District Councillor) of Opava

    The fonds represents one of the basic resources for the history of the administrative district of Opava during the period of occupation. It is an important resource in the study of the political, administrative, national, economic, social, cultural and educational conditions in the district of Opava in the years of 1938–1945. The Jewish issues are explicitly related to by the following documents: the Aryanisation of Jewish businesses from the years of 1939–1941 (inventory no. 381), list of Jewish writers and authors-emigrants from Nazi Germany (inventory no. 404), instructions to arrest Jew...

  13. Sicherheitsdienst (Security Service) of Opava

    The fonds comprises only reports of domestic inspections in flats and commercial premises of the Jewish community in Opava and proposals for measures with seized Jewish property from the last quarter of 1938.

  14. Landrat (District Councillor) of Žatec

    The fonds contains documents of individual departments of the Landrat (district councillor) Žatec, except for the political police department. Jewish issues can be found in the documents labeled Pol V - L a (the lists of Jewish and Czech houses in Žatec, Postoloprty and the district of Zatec from 1940-1942), Pol V - L c, d (Jewish houses by their numbers - forced administration, the final statements of account in 1940-1944), Pol V - L e (sales of home furnishings and property of Jews, cancelling businesses and shops in 1941-1944), Pol XII a (associations - the liquidation of Jewish associat...

  15. Landrat (District Councillor) of Krnov

    The fonds contains the documents of the German administration, including the policee, personnel, education, cultural and military matters, population card files, registers of foreign workers, Arbeitsbuch (labour book), personal documents, and more. The fonds also includes documents concerning the appointment of forced administrators of Jewish property and further disposal of former Jewish property, proposals for issuing ID cards to Jews, instructions for terminating the concession of persons of Jewish origin, lists of names of Jews and those with Jewish ancestry from Krnov, and the schoolin...

  16. Sicherheitsdienst (Security Service) of Krnov

    The fonds is made up of a mere fragments of the regular agenda; it consists mostly of files kept on Jews living in Krnov.

  17. Landrat (District Councillor) of Železná Ruda

    The fonds was created during the period of Nazi occupation of border areas of the Domažlice and Klatovy districts and their integration into the system of German administration in 1938-1945. These areas formed Landkreis (district office), which was administered by the Landrat (district councillor) in Železná Ruda. The relevant archival documents include the following: The police agenda contains demolition of synagogues in 1939 (inv. No. 123), the agriculture and forestry agenda contain the temporary administration of Czech and Jewish land from 1938 to 1944 (inv. No. 301).

  18. Amtsgericht (District Court) of Kašperské Hory

    The fonds contains documents of judicial administration from judicial districts of Kašperské Hory, Sušice and Hartmanice, attached to Germany in the years 1938–1945. The agenda of the Office for Debt Relief contains, among others, lists of Jews, in the years 1940–1941 (box No. 65, No. 10).

  19. Collection of applications of residence permits for the district of Uherské Hradiště

    The fonds contains alphabetically ordered applications of residence permits for the districts Uherské Hradiště and Uherský Brod including the Jewish population.

  20. Regierungspräsident (Office of the Governing President) of Opava

    The fonds contains sources for all sections of state administration, education and economics in the government circuit Opava of the Reich’s Sudetenland Reichsgau (region) from the years 1938–1945. The political and economic situation reports and minutes from the conferences of the landrats (Land Councillor's Offices) are of particular value. Jewish history is covered by documents concerning the adoption of distinguishing names for Jews (inv. № 1794) and Jewish personal names (inv. № 1898–1899, 1910), decrees and measures concerning Jewish registers (inv. № 1912), requests of Jewish persons ...