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Country: Czechia

  1. Oberlandrat (Supreme District Councillor) of Tišnov

    The fonds contains administration documents from the circuit of the supreme land councillor in Tišnov. In the fonds we can find an overview of the number of inhabitants (Czechs, Germans, Jews) in the districts of Tišnov, Nové Město na Moravě and Velké Meziříčí 1939; Order of the Land Office to inventory Jewish doctors; as of the date 23.3.1939; Prohibition on spontaneous Aryanization; as of the date 31.3.1939 – price control, marking of Jewish shops, holidays of employees.

  2. National Administration of the Assets – Circuit Office of Jihlava

    The fonds contains the files concerning the administration, seizure, post–war restitution and nationalisation of property of Jews and persons of hostile countries, primarily houses in the Jihlava region, western Moravia and certain houses in southern Bohemia. The fonds contains 2 books – list of restitutions and list of real estate. The files are sub–divided into several groups – files concerning general matters, files of returned real estate (classified according to location) and files concerning real estate transferred to the administration of national committees, communal enterprises or ...

  3. Internment Camp of Svatobořice

    The fonds contains sources about life in the internment camp, lists of internees, their wages, work deployment, correspondence. There were also Jews in the camp temporarily, about whom there may be records primarily in these documents Card Index of Internees (4 boxes) 1942–1944; Card Index of Sick Internees 1944 and Book of Sick Persons 1944, and possibly in other items.

  4. Landgericht (Reichs Provicial Court) of Brno

    The fonds contains documents from the activities of the Landgericht (Reichs Provincial Court) in Brno from the time of occupation by Nazi Germany. In the civil agenda, the only document relating to Jews is the Administrative Files (Attorneys, representation of Czech and Jewish parties); in the criminal agenda, this includes mainly records regarding Jewish property: Hein Artur 29.5.1883, Moravská Ostrava – non-reporting of Jewish property; Kaštický Gustav 8.7.1907, Brněnské Ivanovice – thefts of Jewish property; Stolaříková Anna 10.7.1918 Luhačovice – Jewish property; Tichý Ladislav 20.3.191...

  5. Landgericht (Reichs Regional Court) of Znojmo

    The fonds contains court materials from the time of the occupation of southern Moravia by Nazi Germany. The cases of fraud involving Jewish property are relates specifically to the files of Otto Novosad, 30.11.1907 Břeclav; Jan Paw, 17.5.1912 Břeclav; Vojtěch Žurek, 15.8.1898 Břeclav; Marie Konečná, 18.8.1906 Břeclav; Rudolf Tesař, 16.5.1919 Břeclav; Anna Kocián, 31.8.1910 Poštorná; Marie Riederová, 7.9.1892 Vienna.

  6. Customs Investigation Office, Brno Branch

    Among other things, the fonds provides details about confiscated Jewish property, securities, jewellery and precious metals, securing of Jewish deposits and bank accounts and permission of maintenance amounts from rare Jewish accounts. In some files, record is also contained of balances of Jewish businesses from the end of the 1st Republic. It is possible to see in the material the first wave of pogroms against the Jews, restriction of their economic influence, stripping of their social standing, property, options for emigration etc. The following types of items are then specifically specif...

  7. NSDAP of Vyškov

    The fonds contains documents of the local NSDAP group from the years 1939–1944. In the original call № there were Jewish matters, court matters: Jewish property, German court in Brno, racial policy. According to the current layout, the documents concerning Jewish matters are split up amongst several thematically arranged binders, for example resettlement of Jews; Centre for Jewish Emigration; Jewish apartments; also many documents concerning Jewish property or its sale or about inhabitants of Jewish race.

  8. Land Office – Circuit Office of Brno

    The fonds contains surviving material from the Circuit Office of the Land office in Brno from the years of the Occupation 1939–1945. In it you can find these archival records concerning the Jewish history: applications of people interested in renting Jewish estates from the years 1939–1942; documents about Marie Aujeská from Boskovice and the purchase of Jewish property 1942; documents about Antonín Hřebaček from Podivín and the renting of Jewish property 1943; František Sedláček – transfer of his business do Bučovice to the Jewish buildings of Leontýna Stiasná 1940–1941; information about ...

  9. Auswanderungsfonds (Emigration Fund), Brno Office

    The Emigration Fund is important for discovering the size of Jewish home assets, and for drawing a conclusion from it about the scale of Nazi plundering of Jewish property. The files contain contracts about compulsory sale, official valuation of real estate, expressions of owners about state of real estate, extract from land registry, notification of office of land council about establishment of fiduciary, lease agreements, proceedings for the sale of real estate, inventory records and correspondence with tenants and caretakers and others. The frequent official records with date and number ...

  10. Oberlandrat (Supreme District Councillor) of Vsetín

    The fonds contains material from just two months of activity of the office, but it contains valuable data concerning the start of the Nazi occupation of the Vsetín area, inter alia Reports of the District Office in Valašské Meziříčí, lists of municipalities, Jews, Germans and associations (1939).

  11. NSDAP – Local Groups of Břeclav

    The fonds contains sources primarily for the organisation NSDAP and its elements and related associations in Břeclav and Poštorná. The List of Inhabitants of Břeclav with data about nationality (Germans, Czechs, Slovaks, Bulgarians, Poles, Jews) and their membership in Nazi organisations in 1939 concerns the Jews.

  12. NSDAP – Local Group of Letovice

    The fonds contains documents of the local NSDAP Letovice group, inter alia correspondence with lists of Jews and their property.

  13. Treuhand- und Revisionsgesellschaft (German Administration of Seized Property) Brno

    The fonds of the German Administration of Seized Property Brno contains material from the Brno and Ostrava branch. The documents are divided according to branches into documents of institutions and physical persons whose property was seized. The seized property was mainly of Jewish origin.

  14. Inspector of the Uniformierteprotektoratspolizei (Uniformed Protectorate Police) in Moravia

    Only some of the documents have survived from the fonds of the Inspector of Uniformed Protectorate Police in Moravia, but its significance is not small. It contains books of daily reports, reports about sabotage, Czech resistance and police organisations, reports on history of partisan movement, secret files of police officers, requests for draft to police etc. The file Establishment of Jewish Transit Camps 1942 concerns Jewish history.

  15. Commander of the Ordnungspolizei Moravia

    The fonds contains materials concerning the supervision of the German occupation administration over the Protectorate gendarmerie and police. Only the following sources concern the Jewish matters: Complaints about gendarmes due to their anti–German behaviour and their contacts with Jews 1941, Senior Constable, retired, Richard Rotrökl, concealment of Jewish money 1942.

  16. Regierungspräsident (Office of the Governing President) of Ústí nad Labem

    Files are preserved in the fonds from the Regierungspräsident (Office of the Governing President) of Ústí nad Labem, in which it is possible to follow the task of this Nazi office of mid-level instance from Landrats (district councillors) right through to municipal offices very well. Of importance for study of Jewish history and in particular persecution of the Jews are the situation reports from 1938–1943 (inv. № 2); from the agenda of Department I b Volk – Care for the population: Census, 1939 (inv. № 153); from the agenda of Department Ib Sta – Nationality: Jews and persons of mixed race...

  17. Leadership of the Reichsgau Branch of NSDAP in Liberec

    The Leadership of the Reichsgau Branch of NSDAP in Liberec was the supreme political body in the Reichsgau (Region) of the Sudetenland. This is why its preserved documents are of exceptional importance for learning about persecution of the Jewish population within the territory of the Sudetenland in 1938–1945. The most important documents include situation reports of the district management of the NSDAP (inv. № 3), local groups (inv. № 4) and other institutions. Material about the history of the Jews can be found in instructions of the Region Management of NSDAP (inv. № 22) and in the instr...

  18. Association of German Municipalities, Office for the Sudetenland in Liberec

    The fonds id divided according to the association departments: Department 123 – Alien, passport and reporting police of the fonds contains file № 11 Jews. This relates to care for Jews from privileged mixed marriages affected by the war from 1942–1943 (inv. № 195). Department 360 – Church matters contains file № 22 – Cemeteries. This relates to issues of dissolution and closure of Jewish cemeteries in the following locations: Budišov nad Budišovkou, Drmoul, Sokolov, Šenov u Nové Jičína, Teplice and Vrchlabí, 1940–1941 (inv. № 285).

  19. Stillhaltekomissar für Organisationen (Continuity Commissioner for Organisations) in Liberec

    The fonds contains materials on Jewish communities, associations and foundations within the territory of the former district of the Sudetenland, liquidated upon cession of the Sudetenland to Germany. Part of the fonds, held under inv. № 6, have individual folders ordered alphabetically by municipality: file 43 – Jewish religious community Karlovy Vary (Karlsbad in German): billing for demolition of the synagogue and land underneath it, tax from the cemetery plot, Jewish foundation and Jewish spa house; folder 46 – statement from the land register with regards to the synagogue in Úštěk (Ausc...

  20. Collection of Nazi Occupation Documents of Various Provenance

    Only individual items have been preserved with regards to the history of the Jews within the territory of the Sudetenland region. The file Private legal requirements towards emigrated Jews contains a letter from the Office of the Government President of 22.2.1940 (inv. № 78). The file Jews, 1941–1943 holds materials regarding pertinence of Protectorate Jews under the Reich Association of Jews, use of means of transport by Jews, introduction of the obligation of Jews to be labelled as such and requests for waiving of this (inv. № 96). The file Anti-Semitic acts and measures, 1939 contains in...