Metadata: Association of Jewish Participants of the Czechoslovak Resistance
Collection
- Country:
- Czechia
- Holding institution:
- Archives of the Jewish Museum in Prague
- Holding institution (official language):
- Archiv Židovského muzea v Praze
- Postal address:
- Stroupežnického 32, Praha 5, 150 00
- Phone number:
- 00420222749111
- Web address:
- http://www.jewishmuseum.cz/
- Email:
- office@jewishmuseum.cz
- Reference number:
- 313
- Title:
- Association of Jewish Participants of the Czechoslovak Resistance
- Title (official language):
- Kruh židovských účastníků československého odboje
- Creator/accumulator:
- Association of Jewish Participants of the Czechoslovak Resistance
- Date(s):
- 1919/1949
- Language:
- Czech
- German
- English
- Slovak
- Extent:
- 2.30 linear metres
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Photographic images
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The fonds contains registration books of association members, applications for association membership and for a joint settlement in Israel, fragmentary correspondence, accounting records, printed forms of the association and of the Palestinian authority, reports by the Press Department of the Israeli Embassy in Prague (1948–1949).
- Archival history:
- It has not been ascertained when or how the association's records came to the Jewish Museum in Prague, but this probably occurred some time in the 1950s.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The Association of Czechoslovak Legionnaires of Jewish Origin was founded some time around 1933. It resumed its activities after the Second World War, from 1947 known as the Association of Czechoslovak Legionnaires of Jewish Origin. Its work focused on helping its members to emigrate to Israel, but information about the implementation of this project has not been fully preserved. With the departure of the main organiser, R. Rodek, in June 1949, the association's activities practically came to an end. The association was officially discontinued in 1952.
- Access points: locations:
- Prague
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds is arranged as follows: register, files, correspondence, accounting records, photographs, press material, (rubber) stamps. There is also an index of names, which is based on the registration books of association members.
- Finding aids:
- Kurečková M: Kruh židovských účastníků československého odboje, Inventář, 2006, 43 s., AP č. 308
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Prague
- Author of the description:
- JMP Survey, 2015.
