Ministerstvo hospodářství a práce, Praha

Printed finding aids (find books) are accessible in Czech language in the archival reading room. The finding help No. 194, 453, 1472 in Czech are online available: http://www.badatelna.eu/fond/1834/ The Ministry of Economy and Work (Ministerstvo hospodářství a práce/Ministerium für Wirtschaft und Arbeit) was founded 15th of January 1942. It united the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Business (Ministerstvo průmyslu, obchodu a živností), the Ministry of Public Works (Ministerstvo veřených práci) and the Ministry of Social and Health Administration (Ministerstvo socialní a zdravotní zprávy) into one institution. From the Ministry of Interior it overtook the resort private insurances. The new Ministry was also responsible for currency and monetary policy. The head of the Ministry of Economy and Work was also chairman of the department V. in the Office of the Reichsprotector. The Ministry of Economy and Work (Ministerstvo hospodářství a práce) was a result of the Heydrich´s reform of the Protectorate administration in 1942. In this period falls the total change of the Protectorate into a war economy. As the Aryazation of Jewish property was untill 1942 almost finished and the deportation of Bohemian and Moravian Jews to Ghetto Theresienstadt (Terezín) and other Ghettos and camps in the east started in 1941 most Holocaust relevant material in this collection is connected to the status of "mixed" Jews or Jews who were married to a non Jewish partner.