Card indexes of Jews persecuted during World War II

The Federation of Jewish Communities in the Czech Republic (FJC) has several card indexes at its disposal: The central card index served the occupation authorities during World War II to keep an overview of most Jewish persons from Bohemia and Moravia. Before the end of the war, the Nazis tried to destroy the majority of important documents that could, inter alia, attest to their part in the extermination of Jews. They were particularly thorough with destroying the cards of deported persons. Yet they were not successful in destroying all the evidence. Some of the cards were preserved, and most of them were recreated by employees of the Jewish Religious Community in Prague after the war based on the available information. The card index also includes smaller sets containing lists of employees of the Jewish Religious Community from September 1942 (two parallel card indexes), February 1945 and May 1945. The card indexes contain information sorted based on various criteria (alphabetically by surname, by classification within the organisation, etc.). Listed here is the personal information of employees such as name, surname, address, date of birth, nationality, identity card number and passport number. A further card index of the Federation of Jewish Communities in the Czech Republic (FJC) is the post-war registry of Jewish persons, which was used for example to determine information on family members and to re-connect war-separated families.