Metadata: Jewish Religious Community of Nový Jičín
Collection
- Country:
- Czechia
- Holding institution:
- State District Archives Nový Jičín
- Holding institution (official language):
- Státní okresní archiv Nový Jičín
- Postal address:
- Dobenínská 96, Náchod, 547 01
- Phone number:
- 00420 491 428 294
- Email:
- archiv@soka-na.cz
- Reference number:
- 1963
- Title:
- Jewish Religious Community of Nový Jičín
- Title (official language):
- Židovská náboženská obec Nový Jičín
- Creator/accumulator:
- Jewish Religious Community of Nový Jičín
- Date(s):
- 1896/1992
- Language:
- German
- Czech
- Hebrew
- Extent:
- 0.12 linear metres
- Physical condition:
- poor
- Scope and content:
- The fonds contains accounting documents of the Jewish religious community in Nový Jičín and its statutes from 1896. The regional almanac of Nový Jičín, which is devoted to the history of the local Jewish population and was issued by the regional museum in 1992, is also part of the collection. In it, author Jan Hanák discusses the history of Jewish communities in Nový Jičín from the 14th century to 1945, including lists of Jews in Nový Jičín in 1938, members of the Jewish religious community who died in concentration camps or during the Nazi occupation and victims of racial persecution in Frenštát pod Radhoštěm, Příbor, Klimkovice and Fulnek. There are also printed memoirs of Theresienstadt, Auschwitz, Warsaw and Dachau by Nový Jičín native Max Mannheimer.
- Archival history:
- The archive was separated from the collection of the regional museum, which was created in the 1960s, during a general inventory of archival collections in 2013.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The first written records of Jews in Nový Jičín come from promissory notes of 1380-83. The establishment of the Jewish community was permitted by the Austrian ministry of education and culture in the 1890s.
- Access points: locations:
- Auschwitz
- Dachau
- Frenštát pod Radhoštěm
- Fulnek
- Klimkovice
- Nový Jičín
- Příbor
- Theresienstadt
- Warsaw
- Access points: persons/families:
- Hanák, Jan
- Mannheimer, Max
- Access, restrictions:
- The collection is not accessible.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Prague
- Author of the description:
- JMP Survey, 2015.