Český svaz protifašistických bojovníků – ústřední výbor, Praha

Český svaz protifašistických bojovníků – ústřední výbor, Praha 

Czech Union of Anti-Fascist Fighters - Central Committee, Prague / NAD 1786 

Český svaz protifašistických bojovníků – ústřední výbor, Praha 

Czech Union of Anti-Fascist Fighters - Central Committee, Prague / NAD 1786 

Textual material 353,65 linear meters 

The documents of the Czech Union of Anti-Fascist Fighters (ČSPB) are an important source concerning the resistance and resistance of Czechs and Slovaks in 1914-1918, domestic and foreign anti-Nazi resistance in 1939-1945, including Jewish resistance, and the victims of racial and political persecution, prisoners of Nazi prisons and concentration camps. The fonds has a complicated internal structure, consisting of several separate parts: registry; membership records; documents of the publicity department of the Central Committee of the ČSPB; a memorial, documentary and historical competition; clippings; photo archive. The fonds contains a number of documents from the period before 1969. An important part of the fonds is the membership records of the ČSPB, the Czechoslovak Union of Anti-Fascist Fighters (ČSPB), the Union of Anti-Fascist Fighters (SPB) and their predecessors. It contains applications of participants of the First and Second Czechoslovak Resistance, including applications of resistance fighters and victims of racial and political persecution of Jewish nationality. There are also minutes of meetings of the central bodies of the Union, and documentation concerning pseudo-medical experiments in concentration camps. Much of this material dates from the period after 1969.The biographies included in the application forms also include information relating to the members' activities before 1939. The fonds also contains fragments of several personal fonds of Holocaust victims. An important part of the fonds is a competition of historical, commemorative and documentary works. The competition may also contain memoirs of Czechoslovak Legionnaires of Jewish origin; these works are traceable in the fonds by the name of the author. The competition also included a commemorative work by the resistance fighter of Jewish origin, Solomon Ickovič, entitled Meetings with Death, competition work No. 1672, a memoir from 1937-1944. The author, a Czechoslovak communist of Jewish nationality from Carpathian Ruthenia, was a member of the International Brigades in Spain, survived French internment, and then joined the anti-Nazi resistance in France. 

The fonds is not organized, being only divided into the following sections: registry; membership records; documents of the publicity department of the Czech Union of Anti-Fascist Fighters (a competition of historical, commemorative and documentary works; clippings; photo archive).