Metadata: District Office of Kyjov
Collection
- Country:
- Czechia
- Holding institution:
- State District Archives of Hodonín
- Holding institution (official language):
- Státní okresní archiv Hodonín
- Postal address:
- Koupelní 809/10, Hodonín, 695 01
- Phone number:
- 00420 518 343 306
- Email:
- soka_hodonin@mza.cz
- Reference number:
- 15
- Title:
- District Office of Kyjov
- Title (official language):
- Okresní úřad Kyjov
- Creator/accumulator:
- District Office of Kyjov
- Date(s):
- 1850/1945
- Language:
- German
- Czech
- Extent:
- 138.26 linear metres
- Scope and content:
-
The fonds contains among other documents: Jewish population registers, rabbis 1877-1897, other documents about Jewish religious communities: Kyjov, Koryčany, Dambořice 1874-1942; Kyjov (rabbinate, organisational matters, synagogue, cemetery) 1899-1936; Dambořice 1897-1941. In the federal agenda, the following organisations are recorded: Kyjov - Jewish readers club 1920-1946, WIZO Jewish Women’s organisation, Chevra Kadisha 1878-1946 and multiple other Jewish foundations from Kyjov, Dambořice and Žarošice from the first half of the 20th century. Attention should also be devoted to the refugee camp in Svatobořice 1914-1920. Census records, including Jewish communities: Dambořice - 1869, 1880, 1890, 1900, 1910; Koryčany 1857, 1869, 1880, 1890, 1900, 1910; Kyjov - Jewish political community 1857, 1869, 1880, 1890, 1900, 1910. Presidium files contains the following material: abolishment of a Jewish school in Kyjov 1919. Attention should also be devoted to the agenda and issuance of passports, labour record books and domicile certificates from 1864-1897.
From the Holocaust period, this fonds includes a list of Jews in the district in 1939, records of Jewish residence from 1941 and 1943; closing Jewish businesses 1941-1943 and Reichauftragsverwaltung (Administration by Reich’s order) documents: a list of Jewish property 1940, management of Jewish property 1942 to 1944, estate of the deceased Jew Ida Safier from Lískovec 1943-1944. In the presidium files, these are the items: antisemitic flyers in Kyjov 1938, reports about a refugee camp in Svatobořice 1938-1939, sacking of Jewish secondary school teachers in Kyjov 1939, management of a Jewish shop of A. Kohn in Koryčany 1940, activity of members of the Flag against Jews and violence against Jews in Kyjov, seizure of Jewish authors‘ books 1941, burglary and damage of a synagogue and looting in Jewish homes in Kyjov 1941, Jewish professor A. Ehrlich from Kyjov 1941, removal of anti-German texts of Jews in 1941, damage to a synagogue in 1942, intimate relations between an Aryan woman and a Jew 1942, moving of Jews from Kyjov in 1942, damage to a synagogue in Kyjov and the need for a radical solution for the Jewish question in 1942, transport of the Jewish population of Kyjov and from the entire district in 1943, closure of Jewish businesses in 1943, suicide of Ida and Sofie Safier from Lískovec 1943, documents on Jews in public spaces, spas, shops, their labelling, etc. 1939-1942. Attention should also focused on care for refugees and a refugee camp in Svatobořice 1938-1939, 1942.
- Archival history:
- The documents of the District Office and its successor the District National Committee in Kyjov were transferred in 1953-1954 to the then State Archives of Gottwaldov (now Zlín) Region in Uherské Hradiště, where census records and other files were also gradually transferred. After the region was abolished, the archives became a branch of the State Regional Archives in Brno (today the Moravian Provincial Archives in Brno), which in 1964-1965 transferred the fonds to the State District Archives in Hodonín. In 1966 documents from other fonds, which were handed over by the District Museum, were added in Hodonín. During 1965-1967 the fonds was arranged.
- Administrative/biographical history:
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The District Office in Kyjov was created in 1850 as a Bezirkshauptmannschaft (district head office) and in 1855-1868 it served as a Bezirksamt (political and judicial district office), which means that it carried out both political and court administration. In 1868, the district head office was renewed. In 1919 it was renamed as a district political administration and in 1927 the name was changed to district office. In 1945 the responsibilities of the District Office in Kyjov were taken over by its successor, the District National Committee in Kyjov.
The political district of Kyjov consisted of the following judicial districts: in 1850-1945 the Kyjov judicial district with the Jewish political community in Kyjov; in 1850-1855 the Hodonín judicial district with the Jewish community in Hodonín; in 1850-1855, 1868-1945 the Ždánice judicial district with the Jewish community in Dambořice.
- Access points: locations:
- Dambořice
- Koryčany
- Kyjov
- Svatobořice
- Žarošice
- Access points: persons/families:
- Ehrlich, A
- Safier, Ida
- Safier, Sofie
- Subject terms:
- Aid and relief
- Aid and relief--Philanthropy and charity
- Antisemitism
- Antisemitism--Antisemitic measures
- Antisemitism--Antisemitic propaganda
- Cemeteries
- Census records
- Education
- Education--Schools and universities
- Education--Teachers and professors
- Hevrah kadisha
- Holocaust
- Holocaust--Deportation
- Jewish community
- Jewish community records
- Jewish Question
- Literature
- Passports and visas
- Plunder
- Plunder--Forced closures
- Rabbis
- Real estate
- Refugees
- Residency issues of Jews
- Suicide
- Synagogues
- Trade and commerce
- Zionism
- Zionism--WIZO (Women's International Zionist Organization)
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds is arranged as follows: I. Official books: II. File material: A. Registry finding aids, B. Files (1st to 2nd presidium files, 3. Files in chronological order based on the handling periods of 1850-1854, 1855-1897, 1898-1928, 1929-1935, 1936-1945), C. Census records; III. Accounting dossiers, IV. Associated agendas.
- Access, restrictions:
- The collection is only partly accessible.
- Finding aids:
- Nováková H.-Špičková M.: Okresní úřad Kyjov,(1755)1850 - 1945(1953). Inventář, 1967, s. 106, ev.č. 2.; Špičková M.: Okresní úřad Kyjov, presidiální spisy, 1918 - 1938. Katalog, 1972, s. 31, ev.č. 399.; Špičková M.: Okresní úřad Kyjov, presidiální spisy, 1939 -1945. Katalog, 1968, s. 52, ev.č. 400.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Prague
- Author of the description:
- JMP Survey, 2015.
