Matriky židovských náboženských obcí v českých krajích

Until 1848, the Jewish religious community was the lowest level of state administration for the Jewish population and also kept registers. After that year, there was considerable movement of the Jewish population, which caused a number of problems with the use of community facilities, the payment of religious taxes, and the keeping of registers. Therefore, a law passed in 1893 established fixed boundaries for Jewish communities. The process of natural assimilation was violently interrupted by the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia. After the introduction of the Nuremberg Laws, Jewish religious communities were abolished and their inhabitants were gradually deported to Terezín and from there to other concentration camps. After the war, as a result of the Holocaust, there was a significant reduction in the number of Jewish religious communities in Czechia and Moravia. The basis of the archival collection consists of originals, duplicates, and indexes of Jewish community registers kept up to 1949. The file material consists mainly of death certificates from the Terezín ghetto and deaths recorded or not recorded in the registers on the basis of these certificates, reports of deaths (or marriages and births of children) during the occupation, and collections of documents and registry documents from the period after 1945, which mainly concern entries of declarations of death, additional entries of deaths, as well as records of changes of names and surnames, reports of new births and marriages.