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Country: Czechia

  1. Collection of applications of residence permits for the district of Uherské Hradiště

    The fonds contains alphabetically ordered applications of residence permits for the districts Uherské Hradiště and Uherský Brod including the Jewish population.

  2. 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...

  3. COLLECTION.JMP.ARCHIVE/34

    This fonds contains the community's statutes (1877, 1896, 1900), meeting minutes (maintained until 1940), election records, personnel records, circumcision records (1817–1839), correspondence, records concerning Jewish houses, financial files, synagogue seats records, the statutes and records of the burial society, and fragments of documents relating to Jewish associations and institutions. The fonds also includes fragmentary files relating to the affiliated communities of Hroubovice, Chrudim, Přestavlky and Zájezdec.

  4. 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.

  5. Company Samuel and Berta Lederer, Shop in Všeruby, Forced Trustee Wolfgang Müller

    The fonds contains the business correspondence and written documents concerning administration of trade in colonial goods on Aryanised Jewish merchant Samuel Lederer.

  6. Cristallum - Arnold Schönbek and Comp., the Production and Export of Crystal Glass and Reflecting Telescopes, Splzov (Spilzow, Splzow)

    Fragmentarily preserved fonds contains customary business documents (business license, accounting, list of employees). One of the partners Isidor Blum was of Jewish origin, with reference thereto in inv. No. 7 Resignation of Jewish affiliates from the company in 1938-1939.

  7. 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...

  8. Deutsche Ansiedlungsgesellschaft (German Settlement Company) – Branch in Karlovy Vary

    The fonds includes archival records resulting from the activities of the Karlovy Vary branch of the German Settlement Company. The fonds is not inventoried nor arranged. Given the nature of the office one can find archive records related to the Jewish population, and especially to its land property, throughout the entire fonds. The fonds mainly includes official correspondence, reports on the management of farms, accounting records, settlement maps and land sheets and extracts thereof.

  9. District Gendarmerie Headquarters of Trutnov

    The archival fonds of the Trutnov District Gendarmerie Headquarters contains records from 1938. As the records are kept in a single box, it may be assumed that they are only a fraction of the creator's original files. All that has been preserved are various reports of crimes and offences. The reports include information on the posting of anti-Jewish posters in Jičín, on the appointment of the forced administrator Stöhr from Rochlitz to the Jewish firm of D. Glaser (a mechanical spinning mill), on an anti-Jewish gathering in Vrchlabí on 10 November 1938, on the arrest of Jews from Vrchlabí o...

  10. Documentary Material

    Listinný materiál z doby ghetta vzniklý produkcí terezínské židovské samosprávy a také soubory pozůstalostí jednotlivých vězňů.

  11. Documents of Persecution

    • Židovské muzeum v Praze
    • COLLECTION.JMP.SHOAH/DP
    • Czech, German, English
    • The collection contains 90 boxes of documents (9.79 bm) organised into 79 groups and cannot be considered closed, being added to with new acquisitions. New groups could also gradually be added.

    This collection originated as a documentation of the persecution and genocide of Jews in the Czech lands excluding the archival materials relating to the history of the Terezín ghetto, which forms a separate collection. The content of the collection comprises originals, copies and transcripts of official documents and personal estates, as well as prints, newspaper clippings, maps, memoirs and a small amount of non-written material. The Documents of Persecution collection is a source of information on Holocaust history of Bohemian and Moravia Jews, and to a lesser extent also Slovakian Jews....

  12. Drážďanská banka

    • Dresdner Bank
    • NAD 1335
    • DB
    • Národní archiv
    • 1335
    • Czech, English
    • 1871-1944
    • 1.32 linear meters of documents are processed and inventoried, 0.03 linear meters of documents are non-processed and inaccessible.

    The collection consists of minutes of the Executive Board of Dresdner Bank from October 1931 to December 1943. Furthermore, the collections consists of suggestions of the Board (May 1938 - December 1940), minutes of the meetings of the Directors of the Liquidation Commission (April 1935 - May 1938), minutes of the General Assembly (1870-1930), minutes of the Board (1871-1943), minutes of Committee Meetings (1914-1938) and minutes of the Executive Committee (1938-1943). The most relevant Holocaust-related material is the collection of minutes of the Executive Board of Dresdner Bank from Octo...

  13. The estate of Petr Kien

    Umělecká tvorba a některé osobní dokumenty umělce Františka Petra Kiena.

  14. Financial Office of Planá

    The fonds includes only fragmentarily preserved purchase agreements, which were send to the tax office (Finanzamt) due to tax assessment. Part of the documents relevant for studying Jewish history was removed from the fonds and stored in the box IV., labelled Occupation Action. Specifically the files concerning Jewish property in Přimda, Bor and Stráž. Further bills of sales are stored in the part of the fonds kept under inv. No. 1.

  15. Fischer, Josef, Doc., PhDr.

    • Doc. PhDr. Josef Fischer / NAD 1306
    • Národní archiv
    • 1306
    • English
    • 1891-1945
    • Textual material Photographic images 2,80 linear meters

    The personal fonds of Doc. PhDr. Josef Fischer, a prominent Czech philosopher, sociologist, translator, and participant in the domestic anti-Nazi resistance, is a valuable source for understanding his personality and work, for understanding the intellectual and spiritual atmosphere of the interwar Czechoslovakia, and for studying the issues of the domestic non-communist resistance. The documents related to the resistance activities of the author, especially the letters and secret messages of doc. J. Fischer from prison are a valuable source. The fodns also contains the extensive corresponde...

  16. Forest Office of Nová Bystřice

    The fonds includes archival material of the Forest Office of Nová Bystřice (cultivation, timber felling, etc.). As for the Jewish history, there are documents concerning the forced labor of foreign nationals, namely the Hungarian Jews, from 1944.

  17. Gendarmerie Station in Poříčí (near Trutnov)

    The fonds of the Gendarmerie Station of Poříčí near Trutnov contains records from between 1938 and 1944. Among the main documents relating to Jewish matters is a list of Jewish businesses and Jewish businessmen from Poříčí, which is kept in Box 1673 under File Ref. Nos. 1–46 from 1938. Box 1673 also contains information on various regulations concerning the Jewish population, including an order prohibiting Polish Jews from entering the Sudetenland territory (Box 1673, File Ref. Nos. 12–63, 1939). Box 1674 contains, among other things, files with information on the founding of the labour cam...

  18. Gendarmerie station in Rozvadov

    The fonds includes chronologically ordered correspondence and filing registers of a Gendarmerie station from the end of October 1938 until 1942. Some documents concerning Jews were removed from the fonds in the past and stored in box I., labelled Occupation Action. Specifically a list of property of Jews and Czechs dated October 1938, announcement of a visit of a Jewess of mixed origin G. Kohnová in Rozvadov dated 18 November 1941 and files concerning Jewish property in Rozvadov and Hošťka from years 1938 – 1939. Other documents regarding the Jews (mainly the property) are stored in the chr...

  19. Generální velitel četnictva, Praha

    • 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.

    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...

  20. Generální velitel neuniformované protektorátní policie, Praha

    • Generalkommandant der nichtuniformierten Protektoratspolizei, Prag
    • General Commander of the non-uniformed Protectorate Police
    • GVNP/GKNP
    • NAD 919
    • Národní archiv
    • 919
    • Czech, English
    • 1942-1945
    • The collection consists out of 1,2 linear meters of processed and inventoried documents. 12,2 linear meters are unprocessed and inaccessible.

    The fonds contents out of different material concerning the Criminal Police in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. Of special interest are the camp rules of different Arbeitserziehungslager (AEL) including Svatobořice (Swatoborschitz), were also family members of emigrated Jews ("jüdisch versippt") were captured.