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Language of Description: English
Country: Czechia

  1. Kaufmannová, Heda

    • Heda Kaufmannová / NAD 1981
    • Národní archiv
    • 1981
    • English
    • 1905-1981
    • Textual material Photographic images 2,50 linear meters

    The personal archive of the Czech writer, translator and participant in the anti-Nazi domestic resistance, Heda Kaufmann, is an important source for understanding her literary work and resistance activities during the years of the Nazi occupation. However, the documents in the fonds can also contribute to the understanding of the life of the Jewish community in the interwar Czechoslovakia. The fonds contains mainly personal documents, manuscripts of Heda Kaufmannová's works, documentation of her resistance activities, correspondence and photographs. Among the documents in Heda Kaufmannová's...

  2. Okresní úřad Kamenice nad Lipou

    • Kamenice nad Lipou District Office / NAD 2

    The fonds contains state administration documents. In the agenda of the mixed district office, the relevant documents can be found in the call number 2.3.5 Religious and ecclesiastical affairs. Documents on the topic can be found in the handling of 1905-1932 in call numbers 4.1. Register agenda, 5. 4. Church agenda, 8.1. Police matters, passports, war refugees and foreigners, 13. 1. Military matters; in the handling of 1932-1943 in call numbers I.3 President of the Republic, I.11 Statistics, I.12 Citizenship, I.17 Elections to provincial and district councils, I.18 Elections to municipal co...

  3. 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.

  4. Okresní soud Humpolec

    • District Court in Humpolec / NAD 25

    The fonds contains an agenda arising from the activities of the district court. The agenda is divided according to individual periods into sections A, B, C, and D - land books. The processed part contains the registry of deaths 1853-1897, the estate register 1893-1897, where there may be information on Jews, but only as index records. In the unprocessed part of the fonds, inheritance proceedings are preserved, including the Jewish population. From older periods they have been preserved only partially due to appraisal proceedings - only wills from 1855-1907 have been preserved. The files of ...

  5. Okresní soud Kamenice nad Lipou

    • District Court in Kamenice nad Lipou / NAD 26

    The fonds contains the agenda arising from the activities of the district court. The agenda is divided according to individual periods into sections A, B, C, and D - land books. The processed part contains registers of deaths (1850-1912), estate protocols with indexes (1868-1897), lists of last wills 1855-1897, a list of estates (1873-1881), where information about Jews from the district can be found. In the unprocessed part of the fonds, inheritance proceedings have been preserved, including the Jewish population - from older periods only selectively after appraisal proceedings. The proces...

  6. Okresní soud Pacov

    • District Court in Pacov / NAD 27

    The fonds contains the agenda arising from the activities of the district court. The agenda is divided according to individual periods into sections A, B, C, and D - land books. The processed part of the collection contains registers of deaths (1850-1878), a statement of estates (1885-1897), a register of estates - call number A (1898-1914), and lists of estates (1885-1896), where information on Jews from the district could be found. The unprocessed part of the fonds contains inheritance proceedings, including the Jewish population - from older periods only selectively after appraisal proce...

  7. Okresní soud Pelhřimov I.

    • District Court in Pelhřimov I / NAD 28

    The fonds contains an agenda arising from the activities of the district court. The agenda is divided according to individual periods into sections A, B, C, and D - land books. The processed part of the fonds contains a death register (1851-1855), a list of wills (1857-1868), and inheritance protocols (1855-1897), where information on Jews from the district could be found. The unprocessed part of the fonds contains inheritance proceedings, including the Jewish population - from older periods only selectively after appraisal proceedings. The files of call number D (inheritance) from 1933-194...

  8. Okresní soud Počátky

    • District Court in Počátky / NAD 29

    The fonds contains an agenda arising from the activities of the district court. The agenda is divided according to individual periods into sections A, B, C, and D - land books. The unprocessed part of the fonds includes inheritance proceedings, including the Jewish population - from older periods only selectively after appraisal proceedings. The books of estates dealt with in 1864-1897 have been preserved. The files of call number D (inheritance) from 1933-1949 and call number P (guardianship) from 1898-1947 have been completely preserved. The files can be searched on the basis of name list...

  9. 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...

  10. Československý úřad pro hospodářskou pomoc a obnovu, Praha

    • Czechoslovak Office for Relief and Rehabilitation, Prague
    • UNRRA
    • Národní archiv
    • 313
    • Czech, English
    • 1943-1951
    • 28,5 linear metres from which 28,5 linear metres of documents are processed and inventoried and accessible.

    In the fonds there can be found lists and summaries of delivered suplies, reports about the economic situation in the Czechoslovak Republic, various reports from the proceedings of committees. There are also files related to the transport of supllies, another draft plans for relief and rehabilitation of the country (also for the Slovak part of the republic), bills or photographs. The Holocaust or Jewish related documents are in several boxes concerning the matter of repatriation of citizens from the Great Britain. There are lists of persons authorized for the repatriation in April and July ...

  11. Ústředna obchodních a živnostenských komor, Praha

    • Headquarters of Chambers of Commerce and Trade, Prague / NAD 374
    • Národní archiv
    • 374
    • Czech, English
    • 1922-1948
    • Textual material 186,10 linear meters

    The fonds includes materials on the organization, development and personnel matters of the Headquarters, minutes from meetings, documents on its legislative work; materials on the economic development in the Czechoslovak Republic and abroad, tax and customs policies, trade fairs and congresses, pricing policy, combating usury, etc.; numerous documents on foreign trade, international trade agreements, reports of Czechoslovak embassies for the Headquarters (situation on local markets, characteristics of individual companies in individual countries). Information on Jews can be specifically fou...

  12. Arizační spisy

    • Aryanization files
    • AS/NSMPO
    • Arizační spisy - Národní správa majetkových podstat
    • NAD 375
    • Národní archiv
    • 375
    • Czech, English
    • 1938-1945
    • The collection consists out of 101 linear meters of processed and inventoried documents. 3.5 linear meters are unprocessed and inaccessible.

    The collection Arizační spisy was in the 1950s divided into seven main groups by its origins: 1. "Müller": named after the "Sonderbeauftragter für Ernährungsfragen beim Reichsprotektor", Rudolf Müller. These are documents connected with Jewish food companies (70 boxes). 2. "Regierungspräsident Aussig" (Vládní president Ústí nad Labem): Documents which are connected with the Aryanization in Northern Bohemia from 1938 to 1945 under the administration of the Regierungspräsident Aussig an der Elbe (23 boxes). 3. "Landespräsident Brünn" (Zemský president Brno): Documents which are connected with...

  13. 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).

  14. Okresní úřad Pelhřimov I.

    • District Office of Pelhřimov I / NAD 4

    The fonds contains state administration documents. References to the Jewish population may be found in documents of a general nature - presidium files, records of citizenship, and census files. The 1921 census can be found in the unprocessed part of the fonds. Jews are mentioned in the following documents: Circulars and instructions of the Czech governance concerning Jewish affairs (inv. No. 601); Jewish affairs, lists of Jews for cult elections (inv. No. 604); Jewish affairs, registries of births, deaths and marriages, copies of registries, dispensations for the performance of the function...

  15. Wolf, Max Egon, MUDr.

    • MUDr. Max Egon Wolf / NAD 424
    • Národní archiv
    • 424
    • English
    • 1900-1942
    • Textual material 0,12 linear meters

    The personal archive of MUDr. Max Egon Wolf is a source for the knowledge of the Holocaust and the racial persecution of the Jewish population in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. The fonds contains documents from 1939-1941, when the Wolfs faced racial persecution. Using one family as an example, it is possible to trace specific interventions in the life of the Jewish population by the Protectorate authorities - e.g. the levying of special taxes or property registration. The archival material in the fonds also shows the efforts of the Wolfs and their relatives to escape persecution, ...

  16. Židovské organizace

    • Jewish organisations

    The collection contains documents about activities of Jewish organisations and individuals that were examined by the Czechoslovak security apparatus during the 1950s. It includes materials of Jewish relief organisations, in particular of the American Joint Distribution Committee (JOINT) in Czechoslovakia, documents about Jewish emigration from Czechoslovakia (especially between 1945 and 1950), and of Zionist organisations. It also contains materials about Czechoslovak assistance to Israel in 1948-49, including training and shipments of weaponry. Among other materials, it also contains a fil...

  17. Národní souručenství, Praha

    • National Community, Prague
    • Nationale Gemeinschaft
    • N Sour.
    • Národní archiv
    • 453
    • English
    • 1939-1945
    • The collection consists out of 30,5 linear meters of processed and inventoried documents. 0,62 linear meters are unprocessed and inaccessible.

    The National Community included all male citizens of the Protectorate Bohemia and Moravia. The membership was virtually a formality. The Preparatory Committee was established soon after the occupation, namely 21 March 1939 under President Hacha. The aim was to create a mass organization which would support the Protectorate government. Subsequently on 6th April 1939 the Národní souručenství was declared the only political party in the Protectorate. About ninety percent of the male population of the Protectorate were members of Národní souručenství. The organisation Národní souručenství was a...

  18. Nejvyšší správní soud, Praha

    • Supreme Administrative Court in Prague / NAD 470
    • Národní archiv
    • 470
    • Czech, English
    • 1918-1951
    • Textual material 138 linear meters

    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...

  19. 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.

  20. Ministerstvo zahraničních věcí - výstřižkový archiv, Praha

    • Ministry of Foreign Affairs - clippings archive, Prague / NAD 506
    • Národní archiv
    • 506
    • English
    • 1918-1987
    • Textual material 1916,75 linear meters

    The clippings archive, which was established at the request of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, systematically collected clippings mainly on foreign political events. Gradually, a unique collection of thematically arranged newspaper clippings from the Czechoslovak and foreign press from the years 1916-1987 was created. The fonds itself is divided into three parts, the first of which contains clippings from 1916-1944, the second one from 1945-1951 and the third one from 1952-1987. The first part of the fonds contains sets of clippings on Jews in Czechoslovakia from 1920-1944 and on the Jewis...