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Czech RepublicAlternate name(s): Bohemia, Moravia, Czechoslovakia (part of) |
Genealogy
Source | Resource | Language | Comments |
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Austria-Czech SIG | GemeindeView (Encyclopedia of Jewish Communities in Bohemia and Moravia) | ||
Austria-Czech SIG | Getting Started With Czech-Jewish Genealogy | ||
Austria-Czech SIG | Gundacker list of towns in the Czech Republic with Jewish records | ||
Czech Jewish Genealogy (including Bohemia, Moravia, Silesia and Slovakia) | Facebook ![]() |
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Czech National Archives | Fond 1073 – Jewish Registers | ||
Czech National Archives | Fond 2098 – Jewish Familiants | ||
Czech National Archives | Fond 241 – Jewish Registers | ||
Geni | Central Bohemia Catholic Parishes with Jewish Records | ||
Geni | Czech (Bohemian) American Jews | ||
Geni | Jewish Communities in Bohemia and Moravia, Czech Republic | ||
JewishGen | Austria-Czech SIG |
History
Source | Resource | Language | Comments |
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US Commission for the Preservation of America's Heritage Abroad | Survey of Historic Jewish Monuments in the Czech Republic (local) | ||
Austria-Czech SIG | Early Jewish Immigrants in America from the Czech Historic Lands and Slovakia | ||
Beit Hatfutsot | Jewish Spotlight: Czech Republic | ||
FamilySearch | Czech Republic Jewish History | ||
Jewish Encyclopedia (1906) | Bohemia | ||
Jewish Encyclopedia (1906) | Moravia | ||
The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe | Czechoslovakia (1918-1993) | ||
Wikipedia | History of the Jews in the Czech Republic | ||
YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe | Czech Republic | ||
Židovské Muzeum v Praze ( Jewish Museum in Prague) |
Web Site |
Diaspora
Source | Resource | Language | Comments |
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Zchor | Forum of Jewish Communities of the State of Czechoslovakia |
Cemeteries
Source | Resource | Language | Comments |
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Erich Lewitus Genealogy Site | New Jewish cemetery in Prague-Zizkov, Jewish cemetery in Olmutz | ||
IAJGS International Jewish Cemetery Project | Czech Republic | ||
Kešetu (Keshet – an electronic database of Czech and Moravian Jewish Cemeteries) |
Web Site | ||
Progenies | Jewish Cemeteries | ||
Turistické a Informační Centrum Židovské Obce Brno | Jewish Cemeteries in the Czech Republic |
Holocaust
Source | Resource | Language | Comments |
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EHRI Portal | Czech Republic | ||
holocaust.cz (Database of Czech victims of the Holocaust) |
Web Site, Facebook | ||
Prague Castle | The Genocide of the Czech Jews | ||
USHMM Holocaust Encyclopedia | Czechoslovakia | ||
USHMM Holocaust Encyclopedia | The Holocaust in Bohemia and Moravia | ||
USHMM | Listing of Jewish citizens deported from Boskovice, Czechoslavakia |
Contemporary
Source | Resource | Language | Comments |
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Chabad Maharal Center | Web Site | ||
Federace židovských obcí v ČR (Federation of Jewish communities in the Czech Republic) |
Web Site | ||
Židovská Obec Brno (Jewish Community in Brno) |
Web Site | ||
Turistické a Informační Centrum Židovské Obce Brno (Tourist Information Center of the Jewish Community of Brno) |
Web Site | ||
Židovská obec v Praze (Jewish Community of Prague) |
Web Site |
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Great work
a few comments:
Familiantenbucher – Badatelna 2098 and not 1073
census: http://pvh.ff.cuni.cz/soupisy.htm
Prague Wolschan cemetery:
1680 – 1857: http://garfield.jtsa.edu:1801/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=143974&custom_att_2=direct
1857 – 1868: http://garfield.jtsa.edu:1801/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=141338&custom_att_2=direct
1870 – 1890: http://garfield.jtsa.edu:1801/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=41125&custom_att_2=direct
Czech military archives:
http://www.vuapraha.cz/fallensoldierdatabase
Thank you for pointing out the mistake. The 2098/1073 mistake was a typo in the name. The link still went to 2098. Those books are lists of burials in the Wolschan cemetery? Are they indexed anywhere?