Jewish Religious Community of Beroun

Collection description

Scope and content:: This fonds contains the community's statutes including amendments (1871–1933), protocol registers, meeting minutes, election and personnel records, registry and financial files, and burial society records. The fonds also contains materials relating to the affiliated communities of Liteň and Mořina, primarily financial registers and files. The community's extant documents record its administrative work from the middle of the 19th century to the 1930s. Only the Mořina burial society's registers were kept from as early as the first half of the 19th century. The fonds also has a large collection of documents from the period of the Nazi Occupation (1939–1942). In addition to protocol registers and documents that followed on from the pre-war administrative work (concerning the religious tax, other taxes and allowances, employee insurance and social welfare), this includes materials relating to the persecution of the Jewish population: circulars (mainly from the Jewish Religious Community of Prague), emigration files, housing and registration files, employment questionnaires, various documents concerning labour duties, travel permits and community correspondence on Jewish property records, issues concerning Jews of the “non-Mosaic” religion, and records of Jewish-owned property that had been surrendered.

Archival history:: The documents were shipped to the Jewish Museum as part of the wartime shipment of artefacts and documents from Jewish Religious Communities destroyed during the WWII.

Administrative/biographical history:: Jewish settlement in Beroun is documented from the end of the 17th century. A Jewish community existed there from the middle of the 19th century until the Nazi Occupation. The community was not re-established after the Second World War.

Subject terms:: Antisemitism; Burial; Financial records; Holocaust; Jewish community; Jewish community records; Migration; Migration--Emigration; Nazism; Nazism--Nazis; Occupation (military); Plunder; Real estate

Finding aids:: Dolista K, Heřman J: Židovská náboženská obec Beroun 1802 - 1942, Prozatímní inventární seznam, 1971, 7 s., ev. č. 3