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Country: Czechia

  1. Archiv města Valašské Klobouky

    • Valašské Klobouky Town Archives / NAD 1065

    The first records of the Jewish population in Valašské Klobouky date back to the 16th century. The Jews ran commercial and hospitality businesses, and engaged in dyeing and making draperies which was a strategic craft of that region. Because the Jewish descent made social advancement difficult, there were cases of conversion to Christianity - this was the case of the originally Jewish family of the Bratmanns, whose converted member later even became mayor of Valašské Klobouky. The number of Jews in the town did not exceed several dozens of individuals in the second half of the 19th century....

  2. Archiv města Vizovice

    • Vizovice Town Archives / NAD 1154

    The fonds contains documents of the municipal self-government, deeds, official books, file material and accounting material. It contains only details about Jews: the great distillery of Zikmund Jelínek and Sons, the great distillery in Vizovice - purchase contracts, economic affairs, the inn in Zádveřice, construction plans, the appointment of a "faithful hand" during the 1888–1944 protectorate. The documents from the Holocaust period include the following: inspection and confiscation of supplies in the house of Josef Weiss, No. 417, by the Gestapo 1939; administration of Jewish property an...

  3. Archiv města Zlín

    • Zlín Town Archives / NAD 161

    The fonds contains the material of the self-government of the city of Zlín such as documents, official books, file material and accounting material. Information on Jews can be found in the following documents: objections to Jews settling in Zlín, 1848. From the Holocaust period these documents are the following ones: Jewish property, forced administration, purchase of Jewish land 1939–1945. Sufficient attention should also be paid to the following documents: register of members of the municipality of Zlín 1891–1948; list of members of the city of Zlín 1901–1947; register of the dead 1910–19...

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

  6. Archiv města Tábor

    • Archives of the Town of Tábor / NAD 147

    The fonds contains the local government documents, deeds, official books, file material, and accounting material. Information on Jews can be found in documents from 1628-1945 (debts of the municipality to the Prague Jews David Lury and Aaron Tausk and to Matyáš Žlutický of Tábor, and the debt of Saul Israel to the municipality 1622; debts of the Jewish population; the permission of the town council to establish a Jewish cemetery (copy) 1634, list of Jewish families living in Tábor 1691, the number of children registered in Jewish registries 1913-1916, the proposal of the city council to clo...

  7. 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.

  8. 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).

  9. Okresní úřad Tábor I.

    • District Office of Tábor I / NAD 1

    The fonds contains documents of the Tábor District Office from (1808) 1850-1945 (1958), official books, files, accounting material, and others. The documents concern municipal affairs, population movements (1869-1910 census), emigration, residence right, education, health, police, construction, poverty, charity, agriculture, trades, finance, and the military. The fonds also contains correspondence on Jewish registries, documents on the Jewish religious communities of Choustník, Chýnov, Jistebnice, Radenín, Tučapy, Soběslav, and Tábor, documents concerning the construction of a Jewish cemete...

  10. 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.

  11. 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.

  12. 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.

  13. 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.

  14. 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.

  15. Ministerstvo zahraničních věcí - výstřižkový archiv, Praha

    • Ministry of Foreign Affairs - clippings archive, Prague / NAD 506
    • Národní archiv
    • 506
    • English
    • 1918-1987
    • Textual material 1916,75 linear meters

    The clippings archive, which was established at the request of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, systematically collected clippings mainly on foreign political events. Gradually, a unique collection of thematically arranged newspaper clippings from the Czechoslovak and foreign press from the years 1916-1987 was created. The fonds itself is divided into three parts, the first of which contains clippings from 1916-1944, the second one from 1945-1951 and the third one from 1952-1987. The first part of the fonds contains sets of clippings on Jews in Czechoslovakia from 1920-1944 and on the Jewis...

  16. Kaufmannová, Heda

    • Heda Kaufmannová / NAD 1981
    • Národní archiv
    • 1981
    • English
    • 1905-1981
    • Textual material Photographic images 2,50 linear meters

    The personal archive of the Czech writer, translator and participant in the anti-Nazi domestic resistance, Heda Kaufmann, is an important source for understanding her literary work and resistance activities during the years of the Nazi occupation. However, the documents in the fonds can also contribute to the understanding of the life of the Jewish community in the interwar Czechoslovakia. The fonds contains mainly personal documents, manuscripts of Heda Kaufmannová's works, documentation of her resistance activities, correspondence and photographs. Among the documents in Heda Kaufmannová's...

  17. Prof. PhDr. Koloman Gajan, DrSc.

    • Prof. PhDr. Koloman Gajan, DrSc. / NAD 1967
    • Národní archiv
    • 1967
    • English
    • 1924-2011
    • Textual material 9,19 linear meters

    The fonds of Prof. Koloman Gajan, PhD, DrSc., a leading Czechoslovak historian, contains mainly documents related to his scientific work: manuscripts of scientific papers, auxiliary study material, studies and articles, lectures, correspondence, and documentation of the author's public activities. The fonds also contains personal documents and biographical material. Among the Judaica in the fonds there is the author's own biography, which contributes to the knowledge of life in the Jewish community in the small village of Hamborek (now Brezovička) in eastern Slovakia, where Koloman Gajan sp...

  18. Český svaz protifašistických bojovníků – ústřední výbor, Praha

    • Czech Union of Anti-Fascist Fighters - Central Committee, Prague / NAD 1786
    • Národní archiv
    • 1786
    • English
    • 1969-1990
    • Textual material 353,65 linear meters

    The documents of the Czech Union of Anti-Fascist Fighters (ČSPB) are an important source concerning the resistance and resistance of Czechs and Slovaks in 1914-1918, domestic and foreign anti-Nazi resistance in 1939-1945, including Jewish resistance, and the victims of racial and political persecution, prisoners of Nazi prisons and concentration camps. The fonds has a complicated internal structure, consisting of several separate parts: registry; membership records; documents of the publicity department of the Central Committee of the ČSPB; a memorial, documentary and historical competition...

  19. Hájková, Alena, PhDr.

    • PhDr. Alena Hájková / NAD 1226
    • Národní archiv
    • 1226
    • English
    • 1929-1997
    • Textual material Photographic images 6,75 linear meters

    The personal fonds of historian Alena Hájková is a valuable source of information relating to the issue of racial discrimination against the Jewish population and the beginnings of Jewish resistance in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. The fonds contains mainly her manuscripts of scientific works related to the anti-Nazi resistance with a focus on the Jewish resistance. The fonds contains manuscripts of works such as The List of Jews in 1939-1941, Participation of Jews in the Czech Resistance Movement, The Disappeared Ones in the First Months of the Occupation, and Administration in ...

  20. Archiv Syndikátu novinářů, Praha

    • Archive of the Syndicate of Journalists, Prague / NAD 1308
    • Národní archiv
    • 1308
    • English
    • 1877-1998
    • Textual material 244 linear meters

    The archive, founded by the predecessor of the Syndicate of Journalists of the Czech Republic, is an extremely valuable collection of documents resulting from the activities of individual journalistic clubs, associations and organizations. The membership records include the files of members of journalistic organizations who were of Jewish origin or who were later persecuted for being Jewish. The fonds also includes the small estates of several journalists of Jewish origin: František Bauer (7 September 1897, Turnov - 1 October 1967, Prague), Oskar Butter (25 January 1886, Rohozec u Podbořany...