Archival Sources on the History of the Jews in the Czech Lands digitized in the National Archives in Prague

PhDr. Lenka Matušíková

National Archives

Czech Republic

• Jewish Vital Events Registers 1784-1949

• Jewish Control Registers 1784- 1870

• Master documents 1941-1949

• Jewish Family Books 1811

2Dr. Lenka Matušíková

National Archives, Czech Rep.

• Matriky židovských náboženských obcí v českých krajích

1784-1949, call-number HBMa, 2,995 volumes

• 1st Department of the National Archives

• www.Badatelna.eu/fond/1073

• www.nacr.cz



Dr. Lenka Matušíková

National Archives, Czech Republic4









• Židovské kontrolní matriky, call-number HBM, 1.010

volumes

• 1st Department of the National Archives

• www.Badatelna.eu/fond/241

• www.nacr.cz




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• The originals of autopsies from the ghetto of Terezín

1941-1943

• The official declaration of death 1946-1948/1950

The “master documents” were used retrospectively to

fill in the master records of Jewish deaths



• Project of Terezín Initiative Institute

• 27 boxes of original autopsies from the ghetto of Terezín

1941-1943 digitized

• http://www.holocaust.cz/

• Recorded data:

date and place of birth, status, profession, religion, sex,

nationality, native community/parish, last address,

address in Terezín, parents, relatives in Terezín, date of

deaths, disease, cause of death









• 45 boxes digitized in the National Archives thanks to the

financial donation of JewishGen

• Recorded data:

name, date and place of birth, name of parents, status,

last address, name and address the person, who

requested declaration, court decision on date of death

(usually date of last deportation/transport plus 6 month)







• List of families permitted to reside in the Bohemia and

Moravia

• Purpose – to limit the number of the Jews living in the country

• Bohemia – 8600

• Moravia – 5400









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Archival Sources on the History of the Jews in the Czech Lands digitized in the National Archives in Prague

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