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Country: Czechia

  1. Jewish Religious Community of Ivančice

    This fonds consists of pinkas (1715–1788), the community's statutes (1872–1936), protocol registers, meeting minutes, election records, personnel records, registry matters, a birth register (1799–1844), circumcision registers (1837–1890), lists of persons in the Ivančice refugee camp (1938–1941), correspondence, construction records (including for the construction of a synagogue), financial and tax files, synagogue seats records, books of hazkarot, documents relating to the local Jewish school and burial society, and fragmentary documents relating to other Jewish associations and institutio...

  2. Jewish Religious Community of Jevíčko

    This fonds contains the community's statutes of 1923, meeting minutes (maintained until 1940), protocol registers, election records, personnel records, registry matters, lists of Jewish families, correspondence, financial files, construction records, synagogue seats records, book of hazkarot, and fragmentary files of the burial society and other associations/institutions of the Jewish community. There are also fragmentary personnel and financial files from the period of the Nazi occupation. The main financial register was maintained until 1942, the Bikur Cholim membership book until 1939, t...

  3. Jewish Religious Community of Kladno

    This fonds contains the community's statutes (1895, 1897, 1900, 1923), records on a merger with the surrounding Jewish communities, meeting minutes, election records, personnel records, correspondence, financial files, synagogue seats records, documents relating to the local Jewish school and burial society, registers of aid organizations for Jewish refugees (1914–1918), and registers of the community and of the burial society of the affiliated community in Hostouň. Election records, personnel records and financial registers of the burial society and women's association were kept until 1939...

  4. Jewish Religious Community of Postřižín

    This fonds is fragmentary and contains a graves registers and other burial society registers. It also contains the burial society's financial registers (maintained until 1940) and fragmentary files relating to the community from 1941–1942.

  5. Jewish Religious Community of Bechyně

    The fonds includes meetings minutes, fragments of community files, financial files, synagogue seats register and book of Hazkarot. Most of the preserved documents come from the end of the 19th and from the beginning of the 20th century, the synagogue seats register only includes records from the first half of the 19th century. The book of Hazkarot reaches the time of the WWII in its records as it was kept to 1940 (only one commemorative record).

  6. Jewish Religious Community of Benešov

    The fond includes the statutes of the Jewish Religious Community from 1896 and the articles of the Burial Society, lists of community members, financial files (including the pauper care files) and synagogue reconstruction files. Most of the preserved documents dates to 1900 – 1925, only the Burial Society register of currency receipt copies reaches 1940. Besides that the Burial Society founded a cash book for income and outcome records which was used from 1940 to May 1941.

  7. Jewish Religious Community of Prostějov

    In addition to several older individual items, this fonds contains documents from the mid-19th century to the early 1940s. It also contains the community's statutes including amendments (1894, 1920–1925), protocol registers, meeting minutes, election records, personnel records, registry files, certificates of domicile, business records, criminal files, military files, property management files, construction records (including for the construction of a synagogue), financial files, charity foundation records, books of hazkarat, burial society records, copies of epitaphs, fragments of document...

  8. Jewish Religious Community of Slaný

    This fonds contains the community's statutes including amendments (1865–1896), protocol registers, meeting minutes, election records, personnel records, authority notifications, various correspondence, financial and tax files, synagogue seats records, documents relating to the construction of a synagogue, a list of synagogue objects, the 1898 statutes and records of the local burial society, burial lists, and fragmentary files relating to the local Jewish school and several Jewish associations. The fonds also includes a large collection of documents from 1939–1945 relating to the racial per...

  9. Landrat (District Councillor) of Žatec

    The fonds contains documents of individual departments of the Landrat (district councillor) Žatec, except for the political police department. Jewish issues can be found in the documents labeled Pol V - L a (the lists of Jewish and Czech houses in Žatec, Postoloprty and the district of Zatec from 1940-1942), Pol V - L c, d (Jewish houses by their numbers - forced administration, the final statements of account in 1940-1944), Pol V - L e (sales of home furnishings and property of Jews, cancelling businesses and shops in 1941-1944), Pol XII a (associations - the liquidation of Jewish associat...

  10. 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...

  11. Ignáz Etrich Limited Partnership, Horní Staré Město

    The fonds contains records of the Ignác (Ignaz) Etrich Limited Partnership in Horní Staré Město. Accounting records are the best preserved of the documents relating to the company's activities; they comprise a long and consistent series of ledgers dating from the first half of the 20th century until the company's nationalization. The accounts from the period of Nazi occupation include some records that relate to the use of Jewish female prisoners.

  12. Landratsamt (District Councillor's Office) of Trutnov

    The fonds contains documents of the political administration, including the files of the Landrat (district councillor) Office in Trutnov – the files have their own separate inventory, Landrat Trutnov, - and the population records (1890) 1939-1945) where one can find information about the Jewish population of the judicial districts of Trutnov, Maršov, Dvůr Kralové nad Labem, Žacléř and (partly) Jaroměř. According to the 1939 population census, the jurisdiction of the office included 100 municipalities and 73, 376 inhabitants.

  13. Walzel Brothers Limited Partnership, Poříčí (near Trutnov)

    The extant records are important sources for the history of the flax industry in the Trutnov region. Meeting minutes of the company's general meetings are primary sources for its history, even though the records from 1935–1943 are incomplete and fragmentary. Section two contains important, albeit modest, reports on the work of prisoners of war and of female Jewish labourers at the firm.

  14. Willy Menzel, Trutnov

    The records in the fonds are mainly of use as sources for the company's history. There is a large set of property-related records from the period of Nazi occupation, dealing with the Gestapo's confiscation of the company's property, Aryanization and the sale of the company to Willy Menzel. In addition, there are interesting post-1945 records on the efforts made by the former owner of the company, R. Pfefferkorn, to get his property back. The events of the autumn of 1938 are reflected in other records, including a request for the return of goods taken away from Trutnov shortly before the Naz...

  15. Amtsgericht (District Court) of Hostinné

    The archival fonds of the Amtsgericht (district court) in Hostinné contains German judicial administration records and includes the following archival documents that relate to Jewish property: forced administration, 2–15 (incl. Pfefferkorn, Almus, Frischmann), 1939, Box 1; forced administration, 18–34 (incl. Dědek, Fuchs and Nettl, Freund), 1939, Box 1.

  16. Landrat (District Councillor) of Litoměřice

    The fonds contains the documents of the political administration in the Litoměřice district in 1938-1945. Jewish matters are mentioned in the inventory under the following items: Nazi administration of Czech and Jewish property 1938, Czech and Jewish enterprises, homes, farmhouses 1940, property of the Czechoslovak state, Czechs and Jews 1939 ( G 4), Jewish registers 1939-1942, Jewish registers, Nuremberg Laws 1939-1944 (Ho III and 8 – C Jüd), Jewish first names 1939-1944 (Ho III b 3), the racial protection act 1940-1944 (Ho III c 1), municipal reporting on Jewish cemeteries 1941 (Ho III 11...

  17. J. A. Kluge, Horní Staré Město

    The extant records are important sources for the history of flax industry in the Trutnov region from the period of the First Republic and the German occupation, but often also have a wider import beyond the region. They document the use of Jewish female prisoners and POWs as forced labour at the J. A. Klug Company's plants. Invoices and bills of lading from 1943–1945 have been preserved almost in their entirety; these can provide evidence of the company's business relations and of the deliveries of products to customers during the Second World War. The fonds contains photographs of the indi...

  18. Landratsamt (District Councillor's Office) of Vrchlabí

    This fonds contains records of the Vrchlabí-based Landrat (district councillor). The following material relates to Jewish issues: correspondence with the Gestapo concerning Jews, 1940 (Inv. No. 5, Box 3); an official census of inhabitants and enumeration of factories, 1939 (Inv. No. 16, Box 33); weddings and racial policy, 1939-1945 (Inv. No. 18, Boxes 43-44A); anti-Jewish measures, 1938–1939 (Inv. No. 49, Box 489). It is highly likely that there are also records relating to Jews in other parts of the fonds that are not mentioned here. Records in the fonds that relate to elements hostile to...

  19. 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...

  20. Jan Etrich Limited Partnership, Trutnov

    The fonds contains records of the Jan Etrich Limited Partnership, Trutnov. These include reports of receivables from and liabilities to Germany with supporting documents (inter alia, relating to the Gross-Rosen sub-camp at Bernartice) from the years 1945–1946; undated time sheets for work done by Jewish female prisoners between 27 September and 10 October at the company's works in Hostinné; a card file of POWs and forced labourers working at the company between 1940 and 1945; weekly time sheets for work done by employees at the spinning mill (including by POWs and Russian labourers) between...