Matriky židovských náboženských obcí v českých krajích

Matriky židovských náboženských obcí v českých krajích 

Since the Patent of Emperor Joseph II in 1784 the Jewish communities in the Bohemian lands were obliged to lead civil registries. According to Article 6 of the Patent the Jewish registrars (the rabbies) were obliged to keep the same kind of registers as catholic priests did, but certain modifications were permitted as the Jewish faith required. After the Munich Agreement and the annexation of the Czechoslovak border region in 1938, the Gestapo began to collect all available registers of births, marriages and deaths of the Jewish communities and the new established Gestapoleitstelle (Regional Headquarters) Reichenberg drew up card files with Jews. Between 1939 and 1944, there were no registers of births, marriages and deaths of the Jewish Communities in the Sudetengau. After the war the missing data of the Holocaust victims were reversed in the registers of births, marriages and deaths of the Jewish Communities. In the Protectorate Bohemia and Moravia 1942 on the command of the Reichsprotektor all registers of births, marriages and deaths of the Jewish communities had to be handed over in original to the"Zentralamt zur Regelung der Judenfrag" (Central Office for Resolving the Jewish Question). Copies of the Jewish registries were sent to the castle of Český Šterberk in 1943. In March 1945, the original documents in Prague were destroyed at the behest of the Gestapo, but the copies in Český Šternberk stayed untouched. After the war the copies of the registers of births, marriages and deaths of the Jewish Communities were declared by the Czechoslovak Ministry of the Interior as originals.  

Matriky židovských náboženských obcí v českých krajích