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Country: Czechia

  1. Amtsgericht (District Court) of Teplá

    The fonds includes documents arising from the activities of the court functioning on the territory of the Judicial District of Teplá. Although Judaica are not specifically mentioned in the inventory, they are most likely to be found in box No. 5 (forced auctions of real estates, 1938-1943) and in boxes No. 6-7 (seizures of property, 1937-1943).

  2. Amtsgericht (District Court) of Teplice

    The fonds includes documents of the court functioning in the territory of the judicial district of Teplice in 1938-1945. Jewish issues are not expressly mentioned in finding aids but they can be expected in the following sources: civil disputes 1939-1940 (inv. No. 3-6), forced administration of property 1939-1943 (inv. No. 13-15), bankruptcies 1939- 1941 (inv. No. 19), private lawsuits 1938-1944 (inv. No. 20-24), and minor offenses 1938-1943 (inv. No. 40-42).

  3. Amtsgericht (District Court) of Teplice nad Metují

    The fonds consist of archival fonds of the Teplice nad Metují District Court Administration (for the towns of Teplice nad Metují and Stárkov and their vicinity) in the Reichsgau Sudetenland (Sudeten Region). The inventory includes very brief entries. There are no specific mentions of Jews, the local Jewish community of the Teplice and Stárkov Districts was small, organization-wise it belonged to the Náchod religious community. Possible mentions may be probably found in the inheritance agenda. See inv. No. 25, the only specific entry: Taussigová Berta, inheritance and foundation 1920 - 1941.

  4. 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.

  5. Amtsgericht (District Court) of Úštěk

    The archival fonds comprises documents resulting from the activities of the court operating in the Úštěk Judicial District in 1938-1945. In the fonds's inventory we find reference to the Jewish matters only under inv. No. 13 – Jewish debts 1940-1942. Jewish-related documents can also be founded in the unarranged part of the fonds in the collection of deeds for the land books, which also contains documents of transfers of property originally belonging to Jewish owners (private and legal persons).

  6. Amtsgericht (District Court) of Vimperk

    The fonds includes documents of the Amtsgericht (District Court) of Vimperk from the period of the German occupation. The preserved files concern administrative and judicial agendas, both criminal and civil ones (disputes, seizures of property, inheritance, and guardianships), and the agenda of land books from 1938-1945. The criminal files include documents concerning national and racial discrimination, illegal crossing of the border, etc. Except for the agenda of inheritance court the fonds has been well preserved.

  7. Amtsgericht (District Court) of Volary

    The fonds includes documents of the Amtsgericht (District Court) of Volary from the period of the Nazi occupation. The preserved files concern the administrative agenda and the judicial agenda, both criminal and civil one (disputes, inheritance, guardianships) from 1938-1945. The criminal files include documents concerning national and racial discrimination, illegal crossing of the border, etc. The fonds has been preserved in fragments.

  8. Amtsgericht (District Court) of Vranov

    The significance of this fonds is only supplemental. From relevant sources, it contains only inheritance files from 1938–1943 and/or guardianship and custodial files from 1939–1943. Persons of Jewish origin will apparently be recorded in these materials only in exceptional cases.

  9. 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...

  10. Amtsgericht (District Court) of Vyšší Brod

    Files relating to persons of Jewish origin have survived in fragments: the recovery of debts from Jews who had to flee from the border regions, 1939 - 1941 (call No. K, inv. No. 26, box 21), termination of the lease of office premises, 1939 (call No. Mk, inv. No. 26, box 21), the Goldberger Comp. from Černá v Pošumaví, 1940 (call No. II, inv. No. 26, box 21). Files concerning Jewish inhabitants may sometimes be found in other parts of the fonds, too. If the names are not known, searching is difficult.

  11. 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.

  12. Amtsgericht (District Court) of Žlutice

    The fonds includes documents arising from the activities of the court functioning on the territory of the Judicial District of Žlutice. Although Judaica are not specified in the inventory, they are most likely to be found in the box No. 30-34 (forced auctions of real estates, 1938-1942), box No. 35 (forced administration of real estates, 1938-1939), and boxes No. 36-46 (seizures of property, 1939-1945 - also indexes, registry finding aids No. 2-4).

  13. Amtsgericht (District Court) of Znojmo

    The significance of this fonds is only supplemental. From relevant sources, it contains only inheritance files from 1938–1945 and/or guardianship and custodial files from 1938–1945, or testaments from 1938, 1941–1944. Persons of Jewish origin will apparently be recorded in these materials only in exceptional cases.

  14. Amtskomissar (Official Commissioner) of the Precinct of Suchá

    The fonds includes documents of the German occupation administration in the territory of Těšínsko, more specifically, in the precinct of Suchá. Jews are mentioned in the following documents: Lists of confiscated shops, factories and flat furnishings in the municipality of Suchá (1939) 1940-1942; Transports of Jews (1939) 1940-1942; Inventories of flats, factories, lands and Jewish property in Dolní, Horní and Prostřední Suchá 1940-1943; Jewish assets 1940. Further information about Jews can be found in the Population register 1940-1943 and House records of the municipality 1943.

  15. 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).

  16. 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.

  17. 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...

  18. 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...

  19. 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...

  20. 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.