Metadata: District Office of Chrudim I
Collection
- Country:
- Czechia
- Holding institution:
- State Regional Archives Zámrsk – State District Archives Chrudim
- Holding institution (official language):
- Státní oblastní archiv Zámrsk – státní okresní archiv Chrudim
- Postal address:
- Filištínská 37, Chrudim, 537 01
- Phone number:
- +420 469 660 408
- Email:
- podatelna-cr@ahapa.cz
- Reference number:
- 337
- Title:
- District Office of Chrudim I
- Title (official language):
- Okresní úřad Chrudim I
- Creator/accumulator:
- District Governor's Office Chrudim; District Office of Chrudimi; District Political Administration Office; District National Committee
- Date(s):
- 1850/1945
- Date note:
- (1764) 1850/1945 (1963)
- Language:
- Latin
- German
- Czech
- Russian
- Hungarian
- Italian
- Serbian
- Extent:
- 213.99 linear metres
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
The fonds contains documents of the political administration of the Chrudim district. Jewish affairs can be found in many of the agendas of this administration. The presidium files of the office illustrate various phenomena, such as anti-Jewish sentiments, a in municipalities with Jewish communities, and during the war the agenda concerning the Galician refugees who arrived in the district. There are also records regarding Jewish members of the civil service, lists of Jewish emigrants from the Sudetenland, lists of Jewish shops and businesses in the district, and Jews with Polish citizenship. During the Nazi occupation, the Office dealt with the labelling of Jewish shops, the behaviour of the Czech population towards Jews, the exclusion of Jews from public administration and their compliance with prohibitions and regulations.
Census sheets of individual municipalities of the district have been preserved from 1900, 1910 and 1921. An exception is Chrudim, for which census sheets from 1857 (fragment), 1869, 1880, and 1890 (only part of the district) have also been preserved.
The handling period of 1850- 855 contains various files concerning the Jewish population in the following agendas: property; affairs of Jewish religious communities (1853-1854); Jewish associations; construction agenda - plans for the restoration of the burned-out Jewish houses in Přestavlky (1850), and others.
The handling period of 1855-1868 contains Jewish-related documents in the following areas: affairs of municipalities - statements of the Jewish National Community; citizenship, domicile right, registry and marital affairs - keeping Jewish registries in the district (1855-1861), applications for marriage permission (1850-1868); religion and clergy; education and upbringing - matters relating to Jewish schools; construction matters; agriculture, industry and trades, transport, post office, and telegraph.
The handling period of 1868-1902 contains numerous Jewish-related documents: religion and clergy - issues of the Jewish National Community; education and upbringing - lists of non-Catholics and Jews (1874-1876); Jewish schools (1855-1888); health care - a plan to establish a Jewish cemetery in Chrudim (1889-1891); and charitable foundations.
In the handling period of 1903-1936 the key Jewish-related documents can be found in the category of religion and clergy, which also contains the agendas of individual Jewish communities.
Individual documents can also be found by name in other agendas. The handling period of 1937-1945 mainly includes sources relating to persecution and the Holocaust. The Office compiled lists of Jewish employees and lawyers, and Jewish and other emigrants (1939). Offences against the Act on the Organisation of Political Administration and trade offences, which also include Jews (1936-1944), are organised alphabetically. The section “trades, business, and industry” includes lists of Jewish trades and others. “Social care” includes a list of Jewish flats and reports of police stations from individual municipalities (1941-1942). In the transport affairs section, there is a unique collection of confiscated Jewish driving licenses, including photographs (1925-1941).
- Archival history:
- The fonds is held in the State District Archives in Chrudim. The first part of the fonds from 1850-1936 was organised in 1960, the second part, from 1936-1945, in 1968. The entire fonds was re-inventoried in 2011.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The District Governor's Office in Chrudim was established in 1850. In 1855, its successor, the Mixed District Political Office, began to function until 1868, when the District Governor's Office was re-established. In 1919, the Governor's Office was renamed the District Political Administration and later the District Office of Chrudim. It was still headed by the district governor. During the Nazi occupation, the District Office was under the authority of the Oberlandrat Pardubice until 1942, and from June 1942 under the Oberlandrat of Hradec Králové. In 1945, the District National Committee was established in Chrudim.
- Subject terms:
- Agriculture
- Aid and relief
- Aid and relief--Philanthropy and charity
- Antisemitism
- Antisemitism--Antisemitic legislation
- Architecture
- Cemeteries
- Census
- Citizenship
- Education
- Health and medical matters
- Holocaust
- Jewish community
- Migration
- Migration--Emigration
- Professions
- Professions--Lawyers
- Rabbis
- Real estate
- Refugees
- Residency issues of Jews
- Trade and commerce
- Vital records
- Vital records--Marriage records
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds contains file material, official books, maps and plans, and census sheets. The fonds was newly arranged and described in a database system, which also enables full-text search, for example, by names, which are given in applications for travel documents, trade licenses, construction, etc.
- Access, restrictions:
- The collection is available by request only, due to data protection.
- Finding aids:
- Bergmann, Ivan, Grimmlová, Jana, Langová, Alžběta, Růžičková, Renáta, Šrámek, Pavel, Šulc, Ivo, Šulcová, Radka, Vaněček, Jiří: Okresní úřad Chrudim I. Díl I, III.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Prague
- Author of the description:
- JMP Survey