Archival Descriptions

• 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

• Židovské muzeum v Praze
• COLLECTION.JMP.ARCHIVE/312
• Czech, English
• 1939-1947
• 1.65 Meter
• Updated 9 years ago

The preserved official agenda makes it possible to become familiar with the administrative breakdown of the community, and also contains circulars and regulations, official memoranda and all manner of summaries and statistics and correspondence with rural communities. The most valuable material is the reports on the activities of the JRC (Judenrat) and Treuhandstelle. Only fragments have been preserved from the activity of most departments, in many cases only individual files. From the years 1945–1947 the organisational circulars of the National Administration dealing with the activity of t...

• Židovské muzeum v Praze
• COLLECTION.JMP.SHOAH/T
• Czech, German, English
• Updated 5 years ago

The archive records from the Terezín ghetto (24 November 1941 – 8 May 1945, and from the period after the liberation) are preserved only in fragments. Only a portion of the documents in the collection are connected with the official activities of the Terezín Council of Elders and with the various departments and sections of its self-government. The first group of documents comprise a relatively diverse range of maps, plans and drawings of the ghetto, the surrounding area, the housing blocks and buildings, various sketches of the facilities and equipment, as well as notices. The collection a...

• District Office of Tábor I / NAD 1

• Státní okresní archiv Tábor
• 1
• English
• 1850-1945
• Textual material 301,28 linear meters
• Updated 2 years ago

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...

• District Office in Humpolec / NAD 1

• Státní okresní archiv Pelhřimov
• 1
• English
• 1799-1951
• Textual material 67,42 linear meters
• Updated 2 years ago

Only a fragment of the file material has been preserved from the registry of the mixed district office, where a minimum of information about the Jewish population has been preserved. Since 1910, official books, registry finding aids, files, and accounting material have been preserved. Relevant material can be found in sub-call numbers A/3 Security, licensing, passports, citizenship and domicile right; A/4 Association matters; A/6 Church matters and register of births, deaths and marriages; I/3 Constitutional and state matters; III/2 Security matters; VI/2 Trade matters; VII/25 and 35 School...

• District National Committee in Pacov / NAD 10

• Státní okresní archiv Pelhřimov
• 10
• English
• 1887-1962
• Textual material 51,29 linear meters
• Updated 2 years ago

The fonds contains official books, registry finding aids, files, and accounting material. The relevant material is stored in the following groups: national property, confiscation affairs, property transfers in construction, church supervision, territorial organization of churches, and registry agenda. Specifically, these are the following documents: liquidation of the forced occupation administration of Jewish property (inv. No. 170); restitution of the confiscated Jewish property, lease of the synagogue in Pacov 1949-1951 (inv. No. 415); the former Jewish prayer house in Košetice after 194...

• Ministry of Public Works, Prague
• MVP

• Národní archiv
• 1004
• English
• 1918-1942
• The fonds consists out of 491 linear meters of processed and inventoried documents (2980 boxes, 637 books, 2 card indexes), 33 linear meters are unprocessed and inaccessible.
• Updated 5 months ago

The Ministry of Public Works played a minor role in the persecution of the Jews in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. Although it was responsible for the development of infrastructure also in the years of the German occupation during taht Jews were used for Forced labour in this field, it seems that no documents in the collection are referring to that. According to the finding only boxes 2599 and 2649 are dealing with "the Jewish question".

• Amt des Reichsprotektors in Böhmen und Mähren, Prag
• Office of the Reichsprotector in Bohemia and Moravia, Prague
• ÚŘP

• Národní archiv
• 1005
• Czech, English
• 1939-1945
• 255, 12 linear metres of documents are processed and inventoried and accessible and 50, 52 linear metres are unprocessed and not accessible
• Updated 2 months ago

In the fonds, there are many jewish related documents and for studying the theme of protectorate Jews it is a fundamental fonds. There are documents related generally to the status of Jews in the Protectorate, their legal status in the freelance work or in the state administrative. Valuable documents are related to the Aryanization/Arisierung of the jewish property (jewish companies, trades, traffics, agricultural and forestry companies, timber companies) and its later redistribution, various lists of aryanizated property and lists of posted Treuhänders. There are also documents about the N...

• 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

• Ministry of Social Welfare - London
• MSP - L
• NAD 1007

• Národní archiv
• 1007
• Czech, English
• 1940-1945
• 15,8 linear metres of documents from which 15,5 linear metres are processed and inventoried and 0,3 linear metres unprocessed. The fonds is partially accessible.
• Updated 3 weeks ago

The fonds includes various administrative correspondence (this correspondence refers to requests for social supports or finding a job opportunity), questionnaires of repatriates, circulars, information booklets, studies, reports and records of the Czechoslovak National Council and its committees. Jewish related documents can be found in various boxes, such as in boxes 58 and 59, there are files of Jewish associations, clubs and Jewish committees including the Federation of Czechoslovak Jews, The Union of Orthodox Jews from Czechoslovakia or Central Board of Jews. There are also documents fr...

• GVČ
• Generalkommandant der Gendarmerie, Prag
• NAD 1009
• General Commander of the Gendarmerie

• Národní archiv
• 1009
• Czech, English
• 1918-1942
• The collection consists out of 25 linear meters of processed and inventoried documents. 1.9 linear meters are unprocessed and inaccessible.
• Updated 1 week ago

The Gendarmerie in the pre-war Czechoslovak Republic was a militarily organized security force, according to the applicable legal requirements and according to the relevant state authorities to maintain public order and security throughout the territory of Czechoslovakia. It was also responsible for the border control and sent illegal emigrants from Nazi-Germany, under them also Jews, back to Germany. After the establishment of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, the Gendarmerie became part of the occupation administration. Gendarmes were given functions such as auxiliary police, accom...

• Special Correspondent of the Czechoslovak Press Office, Nuremberg
• NAD 1023

• Národní archiv
• 1023
• English
• 1945-1949
• 6,2 linear metres of documents from which all are processed and inventoried. The fonds is fully accessible.
• Updated 5 years ago

The fonds consists of the documents and files created by Rostislav Kocourek the only special correspondent working for the Czech Press Office in Nuremberg in 1945 – 1949. The documents contains his correspondence with Bohumil Ečer, the Czechoslovak delegate in the Commission, stenographic records from the trials, hearings of witnesses, information to each defendant, Commission conclusions such as the list and the characteristics of Nazi organizations, crimes committed on the Czechoslovak territory, hand written notes, outlines and drafts etc. Documents were selected to be used for a journal...

• Ministry of Social Welfare, Prague
• MSP

• Národní archiv
• 1028
• Czech, English
• 1918-1951
• 631,5 linear meters from which 566 linear meters of documents are processed and inventoried and 65,5 linear meters are unprocessed.
• Updated 2 months ago

The Ministry of Social Welfare was during the years of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia in charge of supporting the Jewish emigration abroad. The Ministry developed guidelines for the employment of Jews in the civil service, their legal status, control of Jewish names, Aryan certificates, Employment Law for Jews, Pension payments to Jews,

• Union of Anti-Fascist Fighters - Central Committee, Prague / NAD 1063

• Národní archiv
• 1063
• English
• 1951-1969
• Textual material 27 linear meters
• Updated 2 years ago

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...

• Valašské Klobouky Town Archives / NAD 1065

• Státní okresní archiv Zlín
• 1065
• English
• 1356-1945
• Textual material 9,81 linear meters
• Updated 2 years ago

The first records of the Jewish population in Valašské Klobouky date back to the 16th century. The Jews ran commercial and hospitality businesses, and engaged in dyeing and making draperies which was a strategic craft of that region. Because the Jewish descent made social advancement difficult, there were cases of conversion to Christianity - this was the case of the originally Jewish family of the Bratmanns, whose converted member later even became mayor of Valašské Klobouky. The number of Jews in the town did not exceed several dozens of individuals in the second half of the 19th century....

• Foreign Press Archive, New York / NAD 1066

• Národní archiv
• 1066
• English
• 1939-1946
• Textual material 588,62 linear meters
• Updated 1 week ago

The Clippings Archive of the Second Resistance, known since 1942 as the Czechoslovak Archives in New York, was part of the Czechoslovak Information Center in New York and is associated with the name of its founder, Arne Laurin. Thanks to him, a unique archive of clippings was created, gathering clippings mainly on foreign political and military events during the Second World War, on the situation in the Protectorate and also on the Second Czechoslovak Foreign Resistance. The fonds also contains newspaper clippings on the Jewish community in Czechoslovakia and anti-Jewish measures in the lat...

• Ministry of Interior I., Prague
• NAD 1075

• Národní archiv
• 1075
• Czech, English
• 1918-1948
• The fonds consists out of 2147 linear meters of processed and inventoried documents. 214 linear meters are unprocessed and inaccessible.
• Updated 1 month ago

Documents of this fonds illustrate the broad scope of the agenda of the Ministry of Interior. It included, apart from the security and administrative matters, also minority and language issues, citizenship, population register, press and censorship issues, and also the agenda of the then non-existing Ministry of Social Welfare. The most valuable documents can be found mainly in the presidial part the fonds, where the events of the period can be studied from the situation reports of district and provincial authorities. Documents relating to the history of the Holocaust can mainly be found in...

• Ministry of Interior I - old registry, Prague / NAD 1075/2

• Národní archiv
• 1075/2
• Czech, English
• 1918-1944
• Textual material 965,15 linear meters
• Updated 2 months ago

The fonds as a whole provides information on the activities of the state authorities during the first Czechoslovak Republic and the so-called autonomous administration at the beginning of the Nazi occupation. For researchers, the most valuable part is the legislative issues, issues of organization of political administration, federal affairs, elections, and national and autonomous affairs. The fonds also stores valuable material on economic history. Jews are explicitly mentioned in the following documents: reports on the activities of national committees and the memorandum of the Jewish Nat...

• Occupation prisoners files
• OVS/KT-OVS

• Národní archiv
• 1077
• Czech, English
• 1938-1948
• 160,8 linear metres from which 160,8 linear metres of documents are processed and inventoried and accessible and 41,8 linear metres are unprocessed and probably not accessible.
• Updated 2 months ago

In this collection, there are documents related to Czechoslovak citizens who were imprisoned in German jails and in the concentration camps. There are also files related to (Czechoslovak) Jews, or persons of Jewish nationality, who were gathered and then deported to the Terezín ghetto and the concentration camps. Furthermore in these files, there are information about "death marches" and about post-war repatriation.

• Presidium of the Ministerial Council, Prague / NAD 1082

• Národní archiv
• 1082
• Czech, English
• 1918-1945
• Textual material 632,90 linear meters
• Updated 2 months ago

The fonds includes the entire agenda of the Presidium of the Ministerial Council. Several relatively coherent units directly concern Jews, their organizations, religious societies, relevant government regulations (with an overlap after 1939 - legal status in the Protectorate, Jewish property, emigration, Jews in the civil service); reports on the activities of Jewish parties and organizations, the memorandum of the Zionist Revision Union, the affairs of companies of Jewish entrepreneurs (strike at the company of M. Beer in Svitávka, national situation at the company of A. Hahn in Bohumín). ...