Official documents and papers relating to Antonin Horcicka, March 1940 - c. 1950

Official documents and papers relating to the Second World War internment and post war life of Antonin Horcicka in Europe, 13 March 1940 - c. 1950.

This file opens with papers relating to the internment of Antonin Horcicka at Dachau Concentration Camp including several forged documents used by Horcicka on his escape from the camp shortly before its liberation on 29 April 1945. The remaining items feature a variety of official papers including identity documents as well as membership cards and correspondence that trace Horcicka's movements and reveal some of the challenges he faced as a displaced person during the early post war period, his repatriation to Czechoslovakia and his association with several anti-fascist organisations.

This file contains:

Okresnimu úradu Magistratu hlav. Prahy - Opoved Živnosti Svobodné, [District Office of the Magistrate, Prague - Restrictions on Free Trade] relating to Antonin Horcicka, Prague, 13 March 1940 [in Czech];
Photostat of Effekten Verzeichnis [Personal Effects Register] relating to 20523 Antonin Horcicka, Dachau Concentration Camp, 16 October 1940 - 3 October 1943;
Generalkonsulat Des Unabhängigen Staates Kroatien In München - Legitimation [Consulate General of Independent Croatian States In Munich - Legitimacy] certificate issued to Vinko Matejcic, Munich, 12 February 1945, [in Croatian and German, forged document used by Antonin Horcicka];
Unmebung bei der polizeilche Meldebehörde [police registration document] issued to Vinko Matejcic, Munich, 22-28 April 1945 [in German, forged document used by Antonin Horcicka];
Unmebung bei der polizeilche Meldebehörde [police registration document] issued to Antonin Horcicka, Munich, 4 June 1945 [in German];
Photostat of Lebensmittel-Bezugsnachweis für ehemalige KZ. Infaffen [Food allowance reference document for former concentration camp internees], Munich, 13-26 June 1945 [in German];
Registration certificate issued to Antonin Horcicka, Czechoslovak Repatriation Office, 28 July 1945 [in Czech, Russian and English];
Letter of sale from Jan Rulf relating to Antonin Horcicka, Karlin, Prague, 2 August 1945 [in Czech];
Prukazní lístek [Membership Card] issued to Antonin Horcicka, Zemský Národní Výbor V Praze [Provincial National Committee in Prague], 10 January 1946 [in Czech];
Commemoration dinner programme marking the first anniversary of the liberation of the Dachau Concentration Camp, Sdružení Bývalých Politických Veznu [Association of Former Political Prisoners], Prague, 29 April 1946 [annotated, in Czech];
Svaz Osvobozených Politických Veznu a Pozustalých Obetech Nacismu a Fašismu V Praze [The Union of Liberated Political Prisoners and Affected Political Victims of Nazism and Fascism in Prague] membership card issued to Antonin Horcicka, 29 [April] 1947 - c. 1948 [in Czech];
Pracovní Prukaz [Work Permit Book] issued to Antonin Horcicka, Republic of Czechoslovakia, 15 April 1947 - 10 January 1948 [in Czech];
Membership card issued to Antonin Horcicka, Czechoslovakia, 5 June 1948 [in Czech];
Ridicský Prukaz [Driver Licence] issued to Antonin Horcicka, Republic of Czechoslovakia, 1-16 July 1948 [in Czech];
Letter from Vedoucí Osady [Head of Settlement] to [Antonin Horcicka], Telocvicná Jednota Sokol [Sokol Unity Gymnasium], Prague, 15 July 1948 [in Czech];
Ceskoslovenské Sokolstvo V Exilu [Czechoslovakian Sokol Members in Exile] membership card issued to Antonin Horcicka, 1949 [in Czech];
Loose diary page with handwritten note, 10-13 February [c. 1945 - c. 1950] [in Czech]; and
Letter from J. Horcicka to [Antonin Horcicka], New York, 30 April [year unknown, in Czech].