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Judaica in the Archives of the Czech National Bank

Publication at Faculty of Arts |
2021

Abstract

The paper deals with Judaica stored in the archival collections of the Archive of the Czech National Bank. The issue of Aryanization, i.e. the analysis of the fates of the Jewish population and Jewish companies and the role of banks during the Aryanization proces, is still most often represented among the topics of the research community of the Archive of the Czech National Bank.

This article focuses not only on sources related to Aryanization, but also introduces other sources and research topics related to Jewish issues that can be studied in the Archive of Czech National Bank. These are mainly records related to employees of financial institutions and clients of banks.

It is in these areas that you can find archival documents (personnel files and staff books, photos, credit files, information department files, etc.), where Judaica can be also found. The institutional archival collection the Petschek Bank House, occupies a specific position among the collections containing Judaica.