Jewish Religious Community of Prostějov

In addition to several older individual items, this fonds contains documents from the mid-19th century to the early 1940s. It also contains the community's statutes including amendments (1894, 1920–1925), protocol registers, meeting minutes, election records, personnel records, registry files, certificates of domicile, business records, criminal files, military files, property management files, construction records (including for the construction of a synagogue), financial files, charity foundation records, books of hazkarat, burial society records, copies of epitaphs, fragments of documents relating to various Jewish associations and institutions, and a large collection of books and documents relating to the local Jewish school. The fonds also contains documents from 1941–1942 relating to the persecution of the Jewish population. There are also various regulations and orders, as well as materials that provide information on the registration of Jews, social welfare for community members, work assignments, and the registration and surrendering of Jewish property. In addition, there are travel permits and passes, as well as emigration files. The fonds is accessible with no restriction. Dolista K. – Heřman J., Židovská náboženská obec Prostějov 1727 - 1942, Prozatímní inventární seznam, 1971, 27 s., ev. č. 119. Jewish settlement in Prostějov is documented from the 15th century. This settlement was greatly expanded in the second half of the 17th century. The local Jewish community was one of the largest and most important in Moravia, existing until the Nazi occupation. It was re-established after the Second World War, becoming a synagogue congregation in 1960 (initially as part of the Jewish Religious Community of Olomouc, later as part of the Jewish Religious Community of Brno).