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Notice to Researchers
Research rooms of the National Archives and reading rooms of its libraries in Prague – Chodovec and in Milady Horákové Street (1st Department) will be closed from 29 July 2013 to 23 August 2013 due to operational reasons.Thank you for your understanding.
PhDr. Eva Drašarová, CSc. Director of
the National Archives
Digitalization of the Registers of Jewish Religion Communities
In 2011, all volumes of the Registers of Births, Marriages, and deaths of Jewish communities deposited in the National Archives were digitalized. In the course of this year they will be gradually made accessible on:
www.Badatelna.cz First of all there will be volumes from the fond „ Matriky židovských náboženských obcí v českých zemích“ (HBMa)(Registers of Births, Marriages and Deaths of Jewish Communities in the Czech Lands) for the publication of which the original inventory was used after some improvements.
The registers, needing substantial preservation and restoration interference, were exempt from the process of digitalization and will be scanned later. Similarly, there will be published, with delay, those volumes of the registers where errors found during checking of snaps are then corrected.
In accordance with the Register of Births, Marriages, and Deaths Act (N.301/2000 Coll.) only entries older than 100 years from the last entry in the Births Registers and 75 years from the last entry in the Marriages and Deaths Registers will be made accessible in the individual volumes of the HBMa fond. The restriction does not apply to the Jewish control registers owing to the time range of entries.
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Acquisition of significant images by photographer Okky Offerhaus on events of August 1968
On 8 November 2011, the National Archives enriched their collections and fonds with a major acquisition in the form of negatives depicting events taking place in August 1968, whose author is Mrs. Okky Offerhaus, a photographer living in Küb in Lower Austria, a picturesque location on the famous mountain Semmering railway.Author photos: Okky Offerhaus
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Who we are, what we do
The National Archives is a state administration office as well as a central state archives directly controlled by the Ministry of the Interior of the Czech Republic. more »
Opening hours
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A guide for visitors
Everyone can make use of the records kept in the National Archives with respect to the valid legal norms. It is possible through the following ways... more »
On-line records ...
Conscriptions ( 1850 – 1914 ) – Applications for Residence Permit of Prague Police Headquarters
Police registration forms (conscriptions) are deposited in the National Archives in the archival fond Police Headquarters Prague, forming part of paper documents of general registry of this office.... more »What's new in the National Archives
(26.05.10)
They worked for Reich (in Czech and German)
(24.04.09)
Photos from DML Forum Members Meeting 2009 and EBNA Conference 2009 in Prague
(22.02.07)
Digitizing and exposure of church documents within the frame of the project Monasterium