Metadata: Archive of the Town of Orlová
Collection
- Country:
- Czechia
- Holding institution:
- State District Archives Karviná
- Holding institution (official language):
- Státní okresní archiv Karviná
- Postal address:
- Fryštátská 55, Karviná-Fryštát, 733 21
- Phone number:
- 00420 596 31 27 80
- Email:
- podatelna@ka.archives.cz
- Reference number:
- 362
- Title:
- Archive of the Town of Orlová
- Title (official language):
- Archiv města Orlová
- Creator/accumulator:
- Town of Orlová
- Date(s):
- 1616/1948
- Language:
- Czech
- German
- Polish
- Extent:
- 8.27 linear metres
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The fonds includes documents of the political administration of the town of Orlová. Jews are mentioned in the following documents related to the period of the Holocaust: decrees and regulations regarding the Jewish population, 1940; Jewish population of the town, 1939; Transports of Jews - lists of names, 1939-40, Support for displaced Jews, 1940-41, Police regulations on the exclusion of Jews from public tourism, 1941, Closing Jewish shops and appointing authorised administrators, 1939-40; Confiscated Jewish property, 1939-1941; Managing Jewish land, 1940. The Jewish population is also recorded in registers of right of domicile, 1901-10 and the book of domicile certificates, 1909-22.
- Archival history:
- The earliest documents of the fonds were originally stored in the Orlová museum and transferred to the municipal archives in Ostrava in September 1938 due to Polish annexation. In 1959-60 the documents were given to the State District Archives in Karviná. The fonds was arranged in 1973 and 1992.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The oldest record of the town of Orlová is in a document from 1223. It became a market town in 1908 and a town in 1922.
- Access points: locations:
- Orlová
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds is arranged as follows: I. Charters; II. Official books; III. Files, 1. Registry finding aids; 2. Files; IV. Accounting material, 1. Accounting books; 2. Accounting material.
- Access, restrictions:
- The collection is only partly accessible.
- Finding aids:
- Alexandra Rebrová, Anna Hubáčová, Jiřina Vegrichtová: Archiv města Orlová 1732-1945, Inventář 1973, 24 stran, pomůcka č. 52; Anna Hubáčová, Zdeňka Latioková: Archiv města Orlová-dodatky 1616-1945 (1947), Inventář 1992, 10 stran, pomůcka č. 113.
- Links to finding aids:
- http://vademecum.archives.cz/vademecum
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Prague
- Author of the description:
- JMP Survey, 2015.