Copyright Holder: Czech Republic. Ministerstvo vnitra.

In the wake of World War II the Sudetenland became the scene of ethnic cleansing, witnessing not only the expulsion of nearly three million German speakers, but also the influx of nearly two million resettlers. Yet mob violence and nationalist hatred were not the driving forces of ethnic cleansing; instead, greed, the search for power and property, and the general dislocation of post-war Central and ...

1st ed. 136 pages ; 19 cm.

Concentration camp uniform dress worn by Leopoldine “Poldi” Langer in Leipzig-Schoenfeld concentration camp from August 4, 1944, until she was on a death march in late April 1945. On March 15, 1939, Germany annexed the region of Czechoslovakia, including Orlau, where Poldi lived with her husband Hans. Hans was arrested in April, escaped after two days, and the couple fled to Prokocim, Poland, near ...

Wilbur John Carr, Former Assistant Secretary of State, was the Minister to Czechoslovakia (US Department of State) when German forces occupied Prague on March 15, 1939. Carr closed the Legation in Prague on March 21, 1939 and left his post on April 6, 1939. He died in 1942. Robert Bittrick served with the United States Army Air Corps during World War II. He enlisted on February 3, 1941 in Baltimor ...

The collection consists of pins and medals, documents, correspondence, photographs, and a publication relating to the experiences of Frank Meissner before the Holocaust in Trest, Czechoslovakia, during the Holocaust when he emigrated to Scandinavia, and during and after the war in Great Britain when he served n the Czech Air Force for the Czech government in exile.

The Gendarmerie as armed police forces under the command of the Ministry of Defense existed in the Bohemian lands since the time of the Austrian-Hungarian Empire. With the founding of Czechoslovakia 1918 the Gendarmerie was subordinated to the Ministry of the Interior and took over the main police duties in the state from local crime investigations until police air patrols against German and Hungarian ...

Jiri Weiss assembled this documentary footage which he brought from Czechoslovakia to Britain after fleeing German occupation. Film shows images of agriculture, people in folk costumes, and a church Sunday. The narrator describes Czechoslovakia as a "nation of freedom and peace" for nearly 1,400 years. Scenes of Prague during narration about the development of a Czechoslovak democracy in 1918 under ...

Vyd. 1. 381 pages, 48 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 21 cm

Miscellaneous records related to evidence collected by the Czech secret police in the course of the investigation of Nazi crimes committed in the occupied Czechoslovakia during World War II. The following file is a small sub-collection within the larger collection of 9.5 linear meters. A large accretion of the files to follow at a later date.

Based on the decree of Reinhard Heydrich since 1st of July 1942 the security services in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia were reorganised. Uniformed police forces like the Gendarmerie, the Order Police (Ordnungspolizei/Pořadková policie) and the Municipal police (Stadtpolizei/Městská policie) were reorganised into the "Uniformed Protectorate police" (Uniformierte Protektoratspolizei/Uniformované ...

The finding help Nr. 740 of the National archives in Czech is online available: http://www.badatelna.eu/fond/1994/

A set of the digital files is also held by the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC.

1. vyd. 268 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 21 cm.

The sisters, Fanny and Charlotte, emigrated to England as Jewish refugees from Vienna in 1938 and 1939. Their parents did not manage to flee the country and were deported. Erich Walter, a socialist, was stationed with the Czech Army during the Nazi German occupation of the Czech Republic and managed to emigrate three days before the outbreak of the Second World War.<div><br /><div><div>Fanny ('Fay') ...

Consists of one letter written by Vilma Grunwald to her husband, Dr. Kurt Grunwald, on July 11, 1944, while she was imprisoned in the Czech family camp at Auschwitz. The letter was written shortly before Vilma and her 16 year old son, John, were taken on trucks to the gas chambers. In the letter, she describes that she is aware of her impending fate, that she is calm, and thinking about him and about ...

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Willam Kauder's Royal Air Force (RAF), United Kingdom, flight log, documents, including a Letter of commendation, a photo of a memorial tombstone for his sister, Edith (Edita), her husband, Erich, and their son, Harry, and a photo of three unidentified people, two men and a woman, walking down a street. William (born Vilem) was originally from Prague (now Czech Republic), and escaped while German forces ...

Dagmar Lieblová was born on 19 May 1929 in Kutná Hora, Czechoslovakia, the daughter of Dr. Julius Fantl, a medical doctor, and Irena (nee Reitman) Fantlová. In addition to Dagmar, the Fantls had one other daughter, Rita. Following the German occupation of Czechoslovakia, Dr. Fantl's medical license was revoked, and gradually other restrictions were placed on the Jews of Kutná Hora, until the population ...

Consists of photographs, postcards, and a memoir pertaining to the experiences of Helmut Georg Schreima (1917-1981). Schreima, a Czech-German teenager from Lower Silesia, was arrested as an anti-Nazi teenager on a charge of high treason. Following his release after several years of imprisonment, Schreima later served in the Wehrmacht on the Eastern Front and in France. While in France, Schreima defected ...

Collection contains texts of songs and poetry written by Flack during his internment at Theresienstadt, including typescript copies and a leather-bound diary containing hand-written poetry by Flack, dated 1940-1941. Collection also contains correspondence, news clippings about Flack following his immigration to the United States, and materials related to the play "Ester," by E.F. Burian, which was ...

The register of memorial works is updated yearly and currently contains four volumes. The register is available in the Researcher's room of the archive.