Charles Jordan case (ÚDV-76/VvK-95). Investigation of Charles Jordan's death by the Office of the Documentation and Investigation of the Crimes of Communism (ÚDV)

Document | Digitized | Accession Number: 2010.76 | RG Number: RG-48.002

Overview

Description: Consists of the records of the investigation of the death of Charles Jordan, the executive vice-chairman of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, who was found drowned in Prague’s Vltava River on August 20, 1967.
Date: inclusive: 1967-2003
Credit Line: Forms part of the Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. This archive consists of documentation whose reproduction and/or acquisition was made possible with funding from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
Collection Creator: Ú?ad dokumentace a vyšet?ování zlo?in? komunismu.
Reference: Raviv, Dan and Melman, Yossi. Every Spy a Prince: The Complete History of Israel's Intelligence Community. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1990.

Conditions on Access: This material can only be accessed in a Museum reading room or other on-campus viewing stations. No other access restrictions apply to this material.
Conditions on Use: Publication of documents and duplication of scans for third parties require the written permission of the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes. The USHMM may not publish any of the scans that it has obtained pursuant to the contract signed with the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes and its Archive of Security Forces on October 25, 2008 on the Internet, the World Wide Web, or any other publicly accessible on-line network without the express permission of the source archive
Copyright Holder: Ústav pro studium totalitních režimů

Topical Term: Antisemitism. Criminal investigation--History--20th century. Justice, Administration of--History--20th century.
Personal Name: Jordan, Charles, 1908-1967.
Corporate Name: American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee

Holder of Originals: Ústav pro studium totalitních režimů
Legal Status: Permanent Collection
Provenance: Source of acquisition is the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes, Fond ÚDV-76/VvK-95. Records created by the Office of the Documentation and Investigation of the Crimes of Communism (ÚDV). The records were officially transferred from the Czech Ministry of the Interior to the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes and its Archive of Security Forces after the Institute's opening in February 2008. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the collection from the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes via the United States Holocaust Museum International Archives Project in July, 2010.
Special Collection: Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive