תיעוד מהארכיון הלאומי של צ'כיה (Národní archiv) בעיר פראג מהשנים 1939-1945

Collection includes selected records from various fonds from the National Archives in Prague. Records generated by German occupational institutions (Reichsprotektorat Böhmen und Mähren) and Czech auxiliary agencies dealing with matters of internal security and racial policy, especially anti-Jewish measures. Includes reports regarding aryanization of Jewish businesses, questionnaires of Jewish properties, lists of Jewish workers, documents regarding situation in Theresienstadt (death statistics), Lety camp, deportation of Jews to Theresienstadt and catalog cards of concentration camp inmates from Buchenwald, Mauthausen, and Theresienstadt. Bulk of the records contain German deportation cards from Theresienstadt. It also includes a police catalog of art and precious metal objects confiscated from Jews. The collection contains a wide variety of documents relating to the fate of Jews, communists, and other anti-fascist groups in the Czech lands (e.g., underground armed resistance, church groups, etc.). Also included is documentation on pro-Nazi activities by Sudeten Germans prior to the German occupation of Czech lands; implementation of the Munich agreement; preparations for the military occupation of Bohemia and Moravia; internment in Terezín (Theresienstadt) concentration camp; the destruction of synagogues; increasing restrictions on Jews in business and public life; the arrest of Roma and Sinti; and the transport of Jews from provinces to Prague. Records of the Ministry of Social Welfare, Repatriation Department, London (Ministerstvo sociani pece, Londýn), and Czechoslovak Red Cross dealing with emigration, matters of internal security and racial policy, especially anti-Jewish measures. Includes materials on "Jewish Question", name lists, registration cards and correspondence, Czech organizations in the USA, UN reports on crimes of Nazis, list of camps, descriptions of camps, repatriations from France, emigration to Chile, Cuba, Paraguay, Venezuela, Caracas, Trinidad, USSR, reports on detainment camps, documents and reports on displaced persons camps. List of original fonds included in the collection: Fond JAF 819. Ministry of Finance, London Fond JAF 786. Ministry of Economic Renewal Fond JAF 1075. MV-SR, Minisrty of Interior - Old Registration Fond JAF 828. Ministry of Interior, London Fond JAF 1007. Ministry of Social Welfare, Repatriation Department, London Fond JAF 1077. Occupation Prison Files Fond JAF 1005. Reichsprotektorat Files Fond JAF 1464 The materials were received as a result of an exchange project with USHMM that copied the records in microfilms, which expains the structure of the surveys and the documentation.