Metadata: District Office of Boskovice
Collection
- Country:
- Czechia
- Holding institution:
- State District Archives Blansko
- Holding institution (official language):
- Státní okresní archiv Blansko
- Postal address:
- Komenského 9, Blansko, 678 01
- Phone number:
- 00420 516 419 837
- Email:
- soka_blansko@mza.cz
- Reference number:
- 880
- Title:
- District Office of Boskovice
- Title (official language):
- Okresní úřad Boskovice
- Creator/accumulator:
- District Office of Boskovice
- Date(s):
- 1850/1945
- Language:
- German
- Czech
- Extent:
- 186.33 linear metres
- Scope and content:
-
The fonds contains the following written documents from the District Office of Boskovice: hospital fonds of the Jewish religious community from 1891, loan of domicile right to the Boskovice rabbi Reich from 1891, Jews Christened upon their own request from 1895-1896, Löw-Beer and Julie Gomperzová Foundation from 1897, Kuffner Foundation 1929, Helena Mayerová Foundation for poor Jewish women in Boskovice 1930, state citizenship of members of the Committee of the Jewish religious community in Boskovice 1936, foreign Jewish beggars from 1936, Moses Löw-Beer Foundation 1938, institution of the registry of the Jewish community in Boskovice from 1938, additional fonds contain files relating to Jews, including a list of Jews from 1939 and written documents on Jewish property and its transfers from 1906-1948; division of voluntary firefighters in the Jewish town in Boskovice 1933-1944 and undated documents on the Chevra kadisha association in Boskovice. Population census - census records: Boskovice 1870, 1890, 1910. Presidium files contain reports of events at the firefighters' celebration in the Jewish town in Boskovice in 1897, a request from Jewish and German traders from Boskovice for reinforcement of the gendarmerie from 1906, complaints of Jewish businessmen concerning attacks from the Czech newspaper Velen from 1906, anonymous complaint from 1914 that Germans and Jews were not drafted to defend the country, declaration of Dr. Weiss and Dr. Grünfeld on the loyalty of the Jewish denomination to the house of the emperor from 1918, tribute of the Jewish religious community to the President of the Republic from 1928, search for a representative of the Jewish faith on the Provincial Schools Board from 1929. From the period of the holocaust: Organisation of Jewish women WIZO Boskovice and Jewish association Svépomoc with names and addresses of functionaries from 1940, status of population of Jewish origin from 1940, certification of non-Jewish origin form 1942, statements on status of Jewish religious communities 1913-1941, report of Jewish surnames and their entry in registers from 1944. Presidium files: anti-Jewish measures of V. Juren in Velká Roudka from 1939, intended anti-Jewish events of Czech fascists in Velké Opatovice from 1939, measure for regulating contact with Jews, list of forbidden pubs for Jews from 1939, purchase of Jewish real estate and furniture in Boskovice 1941.
Written documents on the Jewish religious community in Boskovice from 1947-1951 are inorganically included in the fonds.
- Archival history:
- The documents were stored by the District Office’s successor, the District National Committee in Boskovice. After its abolition, the fonds was transferred to the Blansko District State Archives, where it was arranged in 1966-1969.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The District Office in Boskovice was established on 1 January 1850, then entitled Bezirkshauptmannschaft (District Head Office). During the period of 1855-1868 it operated as a political and judicial district office, i.e. it also exercised judicial administration. In 1868 its jurisdiction was again reduced only to political administration under the name of the District Head Office. After the establishment of the Republic of Czechoslovakia the office was renamed in 1919 as the District Political Administration, and in 1928-1945 as the District Office. In 1945 it was abolished and its jurisdiction was transferred to its successor, the Boskovice District National Committee. The Political District of Boskovice covered three Judicial Districts: Blansko, Boskovice - with the Jewish community in Boskovice - and the Judicial District of Kunštát.
- Access points: locations:
- Boskovice
- Velká Roudka
- Velké Opatovice
- Subject terms:
- Aid and relief
- Aid and relief--Philanthropy and charity
- Antisemitism
- Antisemitism--Antisemitic boycotts
- Antisemitism--Antisemitic measures
- Census records
- Citizenship
- Conversion to Christianity
- Fascism
- Fascism--Fascists
- Health and medical matters
- Health and medical matters--Hospitals
- Hevrah kadisha
- Holocaust
- Hospitality industry
- Hospitality industry--Inns
- Jewish community
- Law enforcement
- Law enforcement--Gendarmerie
- Military
- Poverty
- Rabbis
- Real estate
- Residency issues of Jews
- Trade and commerce
- Zionism
- Zionism--WIZO (Women's International Zionist Organization)
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds is structured as follows: official books, auxiliary books, files (presidium files, files according to individual periods: up to 1928, 1929-1935, 1936-1948).
- Access, restrictions:
- The collection is only partly accessible.
- Finding aids:
- Chalupa L, Skutil J, Wetterová M: Okresní úřad Boskovice 1850 - 1945 (1948). Inventář, 1971, s. 284, ev.č. 1.; Chalupa L, Skutil J: Okresní úřad Boskovice, presidiální spisy 1880 - 1945. Katalog, 1970, s. 279, ev.č. 5.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Prague
- Author of the description:
- JMP Survey, 2015.
