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Language of Description: English
Country: Czechia

  1. Ministerstvo financí I, Praha

    • NAD 517
    • MF I
    • Ministry of Finance
    • Finanzministerium
    • Národní archiv
    • 517
    • Czech, English
    • 1918-1945
    • The collection consists out of 344 linear meters of processed and inventoried documents. 56,1 linear meters are unprocessed and inaccessible.

    After the Munich Agreement in September 1938 and the establishment of the so called 2nd Czechoslovak Republic the new government in January 1939 took out a loan in Great Britain, part of which was set off as a support for the emigration of Czech and Moravian Jews to Palestine. On the base of a treaty between the Ministry of Finance and the Jewish Agency for Palestine the Czechoslovak Government supported Jewish emigration out of the country. Between October 1938 and July 1939 about 12 000 Jews left the country, mostly to Palestine. In the time of the Protectorate Bohemia and Moravia the Min...

  2. Německá osídlovací společnost Karlovy Vary

    • Deutsche Ansiedlungsgesellschaft Karlsbad
    • German Settlement society Carlsbad
    • NOS
    • DAG Karlsbad
    • NAD 556
    • Národní archiv
    • 556
    • English
    • 1938-1945
    • The fonds consists out of 241 linear meters of processed and inventoried documents. 1 linear meter of documents is not processed and inventoried and inaccessible.

    In the Sudeten region were since 1938 four different organisations involved into the Nazi-settlement policy. These were the Sächsischen Bauernsiedlung GmbH Dresden, the Schlesische Landgesellschaft mbH Breslau, the Bayerische Bauernsiedlung GmbH and the Deutsche Ansiedlungsgesellschaft which openened in February 1939 an office (Geschäftstelle) in Carlsbad (Karlsbad/Karlovy Vary) and an office in Mährisch Schönberg (Šumperk). The main activity of the Deutsche Ansiedlungsgesellschaft was the settlement of German farmers on farms which belonged to Czechs, Jews or other "foreigners". Czech prop...

  3. Archiv města Luhačovice

    • Luhačovice Town Archives / NAD 570

    The fonds contains documents of the municipality of Luhačovice, official books, files, and accounting material. Jews began to settle in Luhačovice permanently after 1848, until then they visited Luhačovice only during the spa season. Information on Jews can be found in the Luhačovice Archive fonds in individual documents: permission for Jews to use a hall for services 1845; Jewish religious community: model statutes, a request for the establishment of a prayer house 1934; the building commission for the construction of the synagogue and hospital 1928. From the Holocaust period: a list of Je...

  4. Úřad československého delegáta v komisi pro stíhání válečných zločinců

    • The Office of the Czechoslovak delegate in the Commission for Prosecution of War Criminals
    • ÚD
    • NAD 615
    • Národní archiv
    • 615
    • Czech, English
    • 15 linear metres of documents from which 11 are processed and inventoried, 4 are not processed. The fonds is accessible.

    The fonds contains the documents and files coming from the office functioning and administration, incomplete records of the International Military Tribunal sessions (hearings and interrogations, various summaries), documentary materials for the trials (such as documents against K. von Neurath or K. H. Frank, documents of investigation and hunt for war criminals), incomplete lists of war criminals, and the correspondence of Bohumil Ečer and his assistant.

  5. Archiv městečka Malenovice a Místní národní výbor Malenovice

    • Malenovice Town Archives and the Malenovice National Committee / NAD 620

    The fonds contains documents of the municipality self-government. With its scope, it belongs to the fonds of small towns. It contains only particulars about Jews: anti-semitic lectures by the Vlajka organization and the post-war investigation of their members 1940–1945: announcements, lectures “Judaism and Modern Nationalism,” Czech Labor Front, speaker Vykydal from Želechovice, 20 July 1940; "Jews and London must be tried by the People's Court", convened by Jaroslav Pagáč from Zlín, 6 December 1941; the issue of handing over German and Czech members of the Vlajka by the Security Commission...

  6. Československý červený kříž, Londýn

    • Czechoslovak Red Cross, London
    • ČsČK-L
    • NAD 634
    • Národní archiv
    • 634
    • Czech, English
    • 1940-1945
    • The collection consists of 25 linear meters of processed and inventoried documents.

    The collection primarily consists of organisational material of the Czechoslovak Red Cross, including its main offices in London and its branches, as well as documents concerning their tasks. The annual report provides information about the medical and social care of Czechoslovak citizens in exile. The most important Holocaust-related documents in the collection of the Czechoslovak Red Cross - London include the card files and directories of Czechoslovak Jews who were interned in concentration camps erected shortly after the Reichskristallnacht in the Sudetengau, of Jews who were interned i...

  7. Okresní národní výbor Tábor

    • District National Committee of Tábor / NAD 65

    The fonds is linked to the Tábor District Office. It contains documents concerning municipal affairs, population movements, emigration, domicile right, education, health, police, construction, poverty, charity, agriculture, trades, finance and the military. Jews are explicitly mentioned in the following documents: persecution of Jews during the Nazi occupation (lists made in 1947); Jewish religious community - members of the leadership in Tábor 1948; territorial organization of churches - Jewish religious community 1949-1989.

  8. Pomocný výbor pro uprchlíky, Paříž

    • Committee for Refugee Assistance in Paris
    • PVU
    • NAD 658
    • Comité d’Assistance aux Refugiés
    • Národní archiv
    • 658
    • Czech, English
    • 1936-1942
    • The fonds consists of 47,84 linear meters of processed and inventoried documents. All material is accessible.

    The fonds Pomocný výbor pro uprchlíky, Paříž contains mainly of the correspondence of refugees, mainly from Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia and Poland, with the Comité d’Assistance aux Refugiés. The correspondence is sorted by surnames of the refugees. Czechoslovak refugees are organized separately. Box 322 contains correspondence of the Comité d’Assistance aux Refugiés with the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee and the other refugee organisations like the Schutzverband deutscher Schriftsteller.

  9. Archiv města Napajedla

    • Napajedla Town Archives / NAD 670

    The fonds contains documents of the municipality of Napajedla, official books, files, and accounting material. The first records of Jews in Napajedla are mainly associated with the distillery. The distillery was managed by Jewish tenants for most of the 19th century. Information on Jews can be found in the fonds only in some documents from the Holocaust period: confiscated Jewish property - forced administration, rental of real estate, local ordinances and regulations concerning Jews and their property 1939–1945; internment of Napajedla citizens in concentration and prisoner of war camps, d...

  10. Národní arijská kulturní jednota, Praha

    • National Aryan Cultural Union, Prague
    • Nationalarische Union, Prag
    • NAKJ
    • NAD 677
    • Národní archiv
    • 677
    • Czech, English
    • 1939-1945
    • The collection consists out of 1.25 linear meters of processed and inventoried documents which are all accessible.

    The National Aryan Cultural Union (Národní arijská kulturní jednota, NAKJ) was founded on 24th May 1939, officially as a non political society "to improve the situation of the national culture, spirit and peoples behaviour according to modern aryan principles". The association opened 20 branches in the Protectorate Bohemia and Moravia. Together with the fascist movements "Vlajka" (The Flag), "Národní tábor fašistická" (National Fascist Union) and "Fašistická garda" (Fascist guard) they unified in October 1939 to "Český národně socialistický tábor, ČNST" (Czech Nationalsocialist Union). In t...

  11. 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.

  12. 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.

  13. Okresní soud Mladá Vožice

    • District Court of Mladá Vožice / NAD 71

    The fonds contains documents of the Mladá Vožice District Court from (1836) 1850-1949 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.

  14. Okresní soud Soběslav I.

    • District Court of Soběslav I / NAD 72

    The fonds contains documents of the Soběslav District Court from the years 1850-1949 (1951) 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.

  15. Okresní soud Veselí nad Lužnicí

    • District Court of Veselí nad Lužnicí / NAD 73

    The fonds contains documents of the District Court of Veselí nad Lužnicí from the years 1850-1949 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 in 1946.

  16. Česká liga proti bolševismu, Praha

    • Czech League against Bolshevism
    • ČLB
    • ČLpB
    • Národní archiv
    • 739
    • Czech, English
    • 1944-1945
    • The collection consists out of 0,5 linear meters of processed and inventoried documents.

    The official reason for the founding of the Czech League against Bolshevism (Česká liga proti bolševismu) was the Czechoslovak-Soviet treaty of alliance in December 1943 signed by Edvard Beneš in Moscow. The Founding General Meeting of the Czech League against Bolshevism (Česká liga proti bolševismu) was held 23rd January 1944 in Prague. The organization reported directly to the Ministry of Education and Propaganda, led by Emanuel Moravec. Since its founding until January 1945 the Liga organized 231 public speeches and lectures. The Propaganda of the Czech League against Bolshevism was not ...

  17. Ministerstvo zemědělství I - sekretariát protektorátních ministrů, Praha

    • Ministry of Agriculture I - Secretary of the Protectorate Ministers, Prague
    • Landwirtschaftsministerium I - Sektretariat der Protektoratsminister, Prag
    • MZ I
    • NAD 751_11
    • Národní archiv
    • 751_11
    • English
    • 1938-1945
    • The fonds consists out of 10.6 linear meters of processed and inventoried documents.

    The fonds consists of the correspondence of the Ministers of Agriculture in the years of the Protectorate Bohemia and Moravia and a re covering the fields Agriculture, occupation, chambers of agriculture, agricultural labor, taxation, agricultural cooperatives, hunting, hop growing and agricultural statistics. Holocaust relevant material consists mainly out of documents about Aryanization of Jewish property in Agriculture and the exclusion of the Jewish population from specific agricultural products.

  18. Zemský úřad Praha – prezidium

    • Provincial Office in Prague / NAD 753/1
    • Národní archiv
    • 753/1
    • Czech, English
    • 1921-1945
    • Textual material 363,9 linear meters

    The fonds is mainly of an administrative nature. The Presidium of the Provincial Office (hereinafter PPO) monitored the economic, financial and personnel agenda of district authorities and district commissions, and provincial institutions. The personnel agenda is located in all departments of the PPO registry. The PPO-RAV files (the Reich administration) mainly concern German citizenship, name changes, requests for exemptions from the Nuremberg Laws, etc. The individual files also contain orders on the status of Jews in public life, salary suspension of Jewish employees and additional entri...

  19. Ministerstvo hospodářství a práce, Praha

    • Ministry of Economy and Labour, Prague / MHP
    • Národní archiv
    • 782
    • Czech, English
    • 1942-1945
    • 109 linear meters of documents, all are processed and inventoried.

    The Ministry of Economy and Labour (Ministerstvo hospodářství a práce) was a result of the Heydrich´s reform of the Protectorate administration in 1942. In this period falls the total change of the Protectorate into a war economy. As the Aryazation of Jewish property was untill 1942 almost finished and the deportation of Bohemian and Moravian Jews to Ghetto Theresienstadt (Terezín) and other Ghettos and camps in the east started in 1941 most Holocaust relevant material in this collection is connected to the status of "mixed" Jews or Jews who were married to a non Jewish partner.

  20. Ministerstvo hospodářské obnovy - Londýn

    • Ministry of Economic Recovery - London
    • MHO - L
    • Národní archiv
    • 786
    • Czech, English
    • 1941-1945
    • 8,5 linear metres of documents from which all are processed and inventoried. The fonds is accessible.

    In the fonds, there are files from government meetings about post-war economic plans and works - such as ledgers, data used for preparations of the state budget, correspondence between departments, various economic reports for the Minister or memos. There are also documents related to post-war reconstruction plans (United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, UNRRA) such as documents of activities of each commissions (planning commission, industrial commission, medical commission...) and furthermore various statistics, files or newspapers. The Jewish-related documents are not we...