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Selected records from the National Archives in Prague. Ministry of Economic Renewal (JAF 786)

Document | Digitized | Accession Number: 2006.457 | RG Number: RG-48.014M

Overview

Description: This collection mainly consists of administrative records of the Reichsprotektorat Böhmen und Mähren (Reich Protectorat of Bohemia and Moravia). These include documents on the persecution of Jews, the expropriation of Jewish assets, the deportation of Jews to Theresienstadt, the internal workings of the German administration, forced labor, political prisoners, the Nazi security apparatus, resistance activities, and the like.
Date: inclusive: 1920-1945
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.

Physical Details

Language: Czech English Slovak German
Genre/Form: Registers.
Extent: 557 digital images : JPEG ; 499 MB.
1 microfilm reel (digitized) ; 35 mm.
System of Arrangement: Arrangement is thematic: Fond JAF 786, MHO-L, Ministerstvo hospodáŕské obnowy (Ministry of Economic Renewal), Londyn (Box 22); and a part of Fond JAF 786, MV-SR, Ministerstvo vinitra-stará registratura (Ministry of Interior-Old registaration) (Box 1, 357, 792, 1318, 2431, 4372)

Rights & Restrictions

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 reels for third parties require the written permission of the Czech National Archive. Use for commercial purposes expressly prohibited.
Copyright Holder: Národní archiv v Praze

Keywords & Subjects

Topical Term: World War, 1939-1945--Deportations from Czechoslovakia. Jews--Czechoslovakia--History--20th century. Jewish property--Czechoslovakia--Registers. Jews--Legal status, laws, etc.--Czechoslovakia. Romani Genocide, 1939-1945--Czechoslovakia. Executive departments.
Geographic Name: Bohemia and Moravia (Protectorate, 1939-1945) Czechoslovakia--History--Orthodox Judaism--1938-1945. Czech Republic

Administrative Notes

Holder of Originals: Národní archiv v Praze
Legal Status: Permanent Collection
Provenance: Source of acquisition is the Národní archiv v Praze (National Archives in Prague), Czech Republic. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the filmed collection via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum International Archives Project in Oct. 2006.
Special Collection: Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive

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