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Country: Czechia

  1. Amtsgericht (District Court) of Moravská Ostrava

    The fonds is a valuable source for investigating the Nazi occupation justice in the lowest instance. The court files deal mostly with legal issues of Germans and also, to a large extent, of Poles and Slovaks living within the court's jurisdiction. The fonds also contains death records of the fallen Wehrmacht members of the judicial district, persons of Reich nationality who died in the raids on Ostrava, suicides, drowned persons, and victims of injuries and accidents. An important document of the antifascist resistance is the death records of prisoners in the concentration camps at Mauthaus...

  2. NSDAP, District Headquarters in Moravská Ostrava

    The fonds includes personal files of party members, the correspondence of the district manager, organization of local groups, cells and blocks, questionnaires about Czech businesses, personal files of members of the Deutsche Arbeitsfront, issues of German pupils, lists of women involved in the National Socialist Movement, documents of the district party trial and others. The Jewish inhabitants are mentioned in the questionnaires about Jewish businesses in Přívoz that were filled out in September and October of 1939. There is a total of 17 questionnaires.

  3. Amtsgericht (District Court) of Tanvald

    The fonds contains records arising from the activities of the District Court of Tanvald. Records of interest include civil and criminal case records (books and files) – particularly records relating to cases of inheritance and the seizure of goods. (The collection of documents relating to land registers from 1938–1945 and the land registers themselves are kept at the Cadastral Office for the Liberec region – Cadastral Branch Jablonec nad Nisou.)

  4. Amtsgericht (District Court) of Jablonec nad Nisou

    The fonds contains records arising from the activities of the Amtsgericht (District Court) in Jablonec nad Nisou. Records of interest include civil and criminal case records (books and files) – particularly inheritance records and documents relating to death-related measures and matters relating to the seizure of goods. (The collection of documents relating to land registers from 1938–1945 and the land registers themselves are kept at the Cadastral Office for the Liberec region – Cadastral Branch Jablonec nad Nisou.)

  5. Landrat (District Councillor) of Jablonec nad Nisou

    The fonds contains records of the state authority and of the self-government of the Jablonec nad Nisou district (1938–1945). Jews are referred to directly in inventory records relating to the following: Jewish property – debts (Inv. No. 246) and Jewish and pro-Jewish charity foundations (Inv. No. 247). Also worthy of attention are records in the following groups: district and Landrat – situation reports (Inv. No. 9); communities – matters concerning individual communities (Inv. No. 23) and planning – housing censuses by minicipality (Inv. No. 222). The construction-related records include c...

  6. Landrat (District Councillor) of Jablonné v Podještědí

    The fonds contains documents of the District Councillor’s Office in the territory of the Provincial District of Jablonné v Podještědí (the judicial districts of Jablonné v Podještědí, Zwickau and Mimoň, including the occupied territory of the judicial districts of Mnichovo Hradiště and Bělá pod Bezdězem). The inventory lists the following documents on the history of Jews - report police, alien police, passports: inv. No. 165 Surveillance of Jews, registration of Jews (1938-1941); Trade police: inv. No. 175 Removal of Jews from the German economic life (1938-1942); health care, inheritance a...

  7. 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.

  8. 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...

  9. Amtsgericht (District Court) of Bochov

    The fonds includes documents arising from the activities of the court functioning on the territory of the Judicial District of Bochov. Although Judaica are not specifically mentioned in the inventory, they are most likely to be found in the box No. 15 (forced auctions of real estates (1943) and seizures of property (1938-1939)).

  10. 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).

  11. 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).

  12. Amtsgericht (District Court) of Karlovy Vary

    The fonds includes documents arising from the activities of the court functioning on the territory of the Judicial District of Karlovy Vary. Although Judaica are not specifically mentioned in the inventory, they are most likely to be found in boxes No. 117-141 (forced auctions of real estates, 1938-1944), No. 141-158 (forced administration of real estates, 1938-1945) and No. 158-216 (seizures of property, 1938-1945).

  13. Amtsgericht (District Court) of Bečov nad Teplou

    The fonds includes documents arising from the activities of the court functioning on the territory of the judicial district of Bečov nad Teplou. Although Judaica are not specifically mentioned in the inventory, they are most likely to be found in boxes 14-18 (forced auctions and forced administration of real estates, 1938-1945) and in boxes 19-26 (seizures of property, 1938-1945).

  14. Landrat (District Councillor) of Nejdek

    The fonds includes archival materials of the political administration of Nejdek from the period of the German occupation. Jewish issues can be found in the following files: decrees and regulations relating to Jews and Jews of mixed origin (1938-1940) (inv. No. 257), lists of Jews and Jews of mixed origin in municipalities of the district of Nejdek - reports of individual municipal officials (1938-1940) ( inv. No. 258), a list of Jews residing in the district of Nejdek (1939) (inv. No. 259), a list of Jews and Jews of mixed origin residing in the town of Nejdek (1939) (inv. No. 260), keeping...

  15. Landrat (District Councillor) of Karlovy Vary

    The fonds includes documents of the political administration of Karlovy Vary and partly of Jáchymov from the period of the Nazi occupation. Jewish issues can only be found sporadically: an official record of the request of Berta Kreisl to manage the Villa Josefa bathhouse the owner of which, Dr. Max Eidinger, a Jew, fled to London (1938) (inv. No. 15), the escape of a Jew and a Czech, two teachers from the driving school in Karlovy Vary (1938) (inv. No. 18), the records of Jewish returnees who left the Sudetenland before the Nazi annexation, a regulation (1938) (inv. No. 21), the escape of ...

  16. 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.

  17. 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.

  18. Amtsgericht (District Court) of Prachatice

    The fonds includes documents of the Amtsgericht (District Court) of Prachatice from the period of the German occupation. The preserved files concern administrative issues and the criminal and civil agendas (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.

  19. Landgericht (Reichs Regional Court) of Trutnov

    The fonds contains documents of justice administration from the occupation period and sorted in accordance with individual cases that the court addressed, and offers a view into the functioning of the then administration of justice. Unfortunately, documents of racial segregation were not preserved. Nevertheless, the Jews are mentioned in other writings that deal with divorce proceedings of mixed marriages of Germans with Jews. Jews are explicitly mentioned in the following cases: Ernestine Schanzer seeks annulment of marriage to a Jew James Schanzer, from Javornik, part of the village of Ru...

  20. Amtsanwaltschaft (District Prosecutor´s Office) of Trutnov

    The fonds of the Official Prosecution office in Trutnov contains documents relating to this institution. Jewish history is covered only by the following documents: Jew Hermann Israel Klein was being investigated for the offense of not indicating his name Israel (inv. No. 31, signature PLs 45/1942, AA-AG Trut. 1941-1942, file No. 30).