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Emigration and Immigration

Online Records

• Immigrants from Moravia, index
• 1847-1869 Czech Immigration Passenger Lists, Volume IV, e-book. New York 1847-1869.

• 1938-1945 All Palestine, Illegal Immigration from German-Occupied Europe, 1938-1945 - at Ancestry, index.
• 1939-1941 Czechoslovakia, Selected Jewish Holocaust Records, 1939-1941 - at Ancestry, index.
• Czechoslovakia, Jewish Applications for Social Welfare After World War II - at Ancestry, index.
• 1939-1946 Czechoslovakia, Social Welfare and Repatriation Records of Holocaust Survivors, 1939-1946 - at Ancestry, index.
• 1942-1943 Riga, Latvia, Austrian, Czech, and German Jews, 1942-1943 - at Ancestry, index. Names of about 800 Jewish forced laborers from Austria, Czechoslovakia and Germany.
• 1943-1945 Czechoslovakia, Jews Deported to Terezin and Poland, 1943-1945 - at Ancestry, index.

Czech Immigration Passenger Lists (not online)

Czech Immigration Passenger Lists by Leo Baca, at various libraries (WorldCat) and at (FHL book 973 W3bL) can be a useful source of genealogical information. There are 9 volumes:

• Czech Immigration Passenger Lists, Volume I Galveston 1848-1861, 1865-1871
  New Orleans 1848-1879
• Czech Immigration Passenger Lists, Volume II Galveston 1896-1906 New Orleans 1879-1899
• Czech Immigration Passenger Lists, Volume III Galveston 1907-1914
• Czech Immigration Passenger Lists, Volume IV, e-book. New York 1847-1869.
• Czech Immigration Passenger Lists, Volume V New York 1870-1880
• Czech Immigration Passenger Lists, Volume VI New York 1881-1886, Galveston 1880-1886
• Czech Immigration Passenger Lists, Volume VII New York 1887-1896
• Czech Immigration Passenger Lists, Volume VIII Baltimore 1834-1879
• Czech Immigration Passenger Lists, Volume IX Baltimore 1880-1899

Finding the Town of Origin in the Czech Republic

If you are using emigration/immigration records to find the name of your ancestors' town in the Czech Republic, see Czech Republic Finding Town of Origin for additional research strategies.

Czech Republic Emigration and Immigration

"Emigration" means moving out of a country. "Immigration" means moving into a country.
Emigration and immigration sources list the names of people leaving (emigrating) or arriving (immigrating) in the country. These sources may be passenger lists, permissions to emigrate, or records of passports issued. The information in these records may include the emigrants’ names, ages, occupations, destinations, and places of origin or birthplaces. Sometimes they also show family groups.

Emigration: The Czech Diaspora

The Czech diaspora refers to both historical and present emigration from the Czech Republic, as well as from the former Czechoslovakia and the Czech lands (including Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia).

Vienna

• Around the start of the 20th century, Vienna was the city with the second-largest Czech population in the world (after Prague). At its peak, in 1900, 102,974 people claimed Czech or Slovak as their colloquial language. However, there are claims that the Czech minority numbered as high as 250,000-300,000, making Vienna a city with the second largest Czech speaking population, only after Prague.
• After World War I, many Czechs and also nationalities returned to their ancestral countries, resulting in a decline in the Viennese population.
• After World War II, the Soviets used force to repatriate key workers of Czech and Hungarian origins to return to their ethnic homelands to further the Soviet bloc economy. As of 2017, Vienna was home to around 14,500 Czechs.