Czech Republic - Copied Material

The "Czechoslovakian collection" at the Central Archives contains material from all of the areas which comprised the Czechoslovakian republic between the two World Wars, i.e. Bohemia, Moravia, part of Silesia, Slovakia and the area known as Carpatho-Rus, today a part of the Ukraine. Microfilms and photocopies: Files and documents held by the Jewish Museum in Prague, among the communities are Kroměříž (1629-1936), Lostice (1793-1868), Mikulov (1369, 1609-1938), Mlada Boleslav (1595-1938), Praha (1302-1943), Prostējov (1784-1942), and Velke Mezirici (1691-1794); material of the Bohemian Landesjudenschaft (1637-1844); remnants of the Bratislava community archives (18th-19th centuries), 19 circumcision registers from Bratislava and the environs (1748-1883); two financial registers from the community of Jemnice (1787-1845), filmed at the library of the University of Manchester; a small number of films of non-Jewish provenance from Czech archives, such as a register relating to the affairs of a Jewish merchant in the 15th century, from the district archives at Olomouc and a number of files relating to Jews in Slavkov (Austerlitz) (1725-1881) and Rousinov (Neu Raussnitz) (1701-1930) from the district archives at Brno; A microfilmed version of the card catalogue prepared by the late Professor Ruth Kestenberg-Gladstein from the 1724 census of Bohemian countryside Jews. Read more