Ministerstvo spravedlnosti, Praha

Ministerstvo spravedlnosti, Praha 

Ministry of Justice, Prague 

MS 

Ministerstvo spravedlnosti, Praha 

Ministry of Justice, Prague 

MS 

299,5 linear metres of documents from which 299,5 linear metres are processed and inventoried and 8,5 linear metres are unprocessed. The fonds is partially accessible. 

In the fonds, there are documents and records from the legislative council, public prosecutors and judicial administration department. There are also files containing reports from the criminal department and the prison department. The jewish related documents are in several boxes concerning more the matter of antisemitism in the Czechoslovak republic in the thirties than the matter of holocaust. In the boxes there can be found complaints on Jewish notaries and layers and also their requests for granting permission to work in law practice. There are also lists (dated between years 1919-1945) of those jewish layers who were excluded from the work in law practice In box number 245, there are official regulations against the Jewish notaries and layers from 1943.  

The fonds was arranged according to the content of files into several groups: legislative files, files from the administration of courts, files of the criminal and prison agenda. The part of the fonds are confiscated newspapers and other press (the register of confiscated press from years 1926-1938 is available)