Boskovice, Czech Republic
Alternate names: Boscovice, Boskowitz (German name, as it was known before 1918) 49°29' N 16°40' E


Genealogical Resources

The town information center has copies, in English, of a pamphlet written by local historian Dr Jan Bransky, "The Boskovice Jewish Ghetto Sights." It locates and describes nearly 30 houses, the synagogue, the mikvah, the hospice, yeshivah, the butcher shops and some of the history of the thousands of Jewish families who lived and worked in these buildings.

Archival records for Boskovice:

In the State Archives in Prague the following registers are held by Dr Lenka Matusikova for Boskovice. They are known in Czech as Zidovske Matriky and their catalogue identification is HBMa.

  Vital RecordsRegister No.
Births1823-1832100
1832-1848101
1925-1949106
1946-1948107
Marriages1823-1833102
1832-1848103
1925-1940;1942-1949106
Deaths1823-1832104
1832-1848105
1925-1933;1939-1949106
1945-1948107

Note: that in Czech the word for birth is denoted by "R" (czech -rodin), for marriages by "O" (czech- oddovkova) and deaths by "Z" (czech-zatracemi), so that's how the register describes each section.

Some of the registers have an index at the back, for others one must look at every entry. For Boskovice, many of the registers were destroyed either by fire or during World War II.