Ministerstvo vnitra I., Praha

Ministerstvo vnitra I., Praha 

NAD 1075 

Ministry of Interior I., Prague 

Ministerstvo vnitra I., Praha 

NAD 1075 

Ministry of Interior I., Prague 

The fonds consists out of 2147 linear meters of processed and inventoried documents. 214 linear meters are unprocessed and inaccessible.  

Documents of this fonds illustrate the broad scope of the agenda of the Ministry of Interior. It included, apart from the security and administrative matters, also minority and language issues, citizenship, population register, press and censorship issues, and also the agenda of the then non-existing Ministry of Social Welfare. The most valuable documents can be found mainly in the presidial part the fonds, where the events of the period can be studied from the situation reports of district and provincial authorities. Documents relating to the history of the Holocaust can mainly be found in the files of the second registry period (1939-1945) and include the issues of emigration, Jewish associations, Jewish refugees from the Sudetenland, Aryanization of Jewish property, and the establishment of ghettos. From the period after 1945, they also include the return of the survivors from concentration camps and their integration into the society, or the granting of the Czechoslovak citizenship. 

This extensive fonds is divided into six basic structural parts: 1. The Presidium, 2. The Old Registry, 3. The New Registry 1936-1953, 4. The Border Files, 5. The L Department, 6. Amendments. Over the years, this fonds was provided with a total of 21 finding aids (inventories, catalogs, lists), some of them being available to researchers online at ww.badatelna.eu. Chronologically, the sources of this fonds are followed by the fonds II of the Ministry of Interior (1945- 1968).