Ministerstvo sociální péče, Praha

The Ministry of Social Welfare was during the years of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia in charge of supporting the Jewish emigration abroad. The Ministry developed guidelines for the employment of Jews in the civil service, their legal status, control of Jewish names, Aryan certificates, Employment Law for Jews, Pension payments to Jews, The Ministry of Social Welfare was established at the end of 1917, while the Habsburg Monarchy was still in existence, and began its activities on January 1, 1918. Its agenda was essentially taken over by the Office for Social Welfare Administration, established on the basis of Act No. 2/1918 Coll. of November 2, 1918, establishing the highest administrative authorities in the Czechoslovak Republic. In November 1938, a large-scale reorganization of central authorities took place, enacted by Government Decree No. 269/1938 Coll. of November 4, 1938. This decree abolished, among other things, the Ministry of Social Welfare and the Ministry of Public Health and Physical Education, and merged their agendas under the Ministry of Social and Health Administration.