Zbierka spomienok o represáliách, perzekúciách, rasovom prenasledovaní a obetiach na Slovensku v rokoch 1938 – 1945

  • Collection of Memories of Reprisals, Persecutions, Racial Persecution and Victims in Slovakia in Years 1938 – 1945
Identifier
004
Language of Description
English
Dates
1938 - 1945
Level of Description
Collection
Languages
  • Slovak
Scripts
  • Latin
Source
EHRI

Extent and Medium

25 linear meters, paper documents.

Biographical History

Collection has been created by the purchased or donated material.

Archival History

Collection has been gradually processed by various archivists in the Slovak National Uprising Museum Archives since 1958. Printed inventory was prepared and finalized by Tatiana Babušíková and Mária Schvarcová in 2003.

Acquisition

No data available.

Scope and Content

Among numerous written memories of radical and mass reprisals mostly from the period 1944 – 1945, this collection contains also various testimonies of the Holocaust survivors who were facing the mass persecution during and even after the suppression of the Slovak National Uprising by German Army forces, POHG, anti-fascist unit Edelweiss, etc. Significant attention is paid the to mass executions in Kremnička (November 5, 1944 – March 8, 1945), where more approximately 747 people were murdered, various memories are addressing the plundering and burning the villages of Kalište (March 18, 1945), Baláže (March 19, 1945) and Ostrý Grúň by the members of Edelweiss (January 21 and 24, 1945), mass murders in forest nearby the village of Kováčová commited by Einsatzkommando 14, operations of POHG in Krupina (November 11 – 17, 1944), mass murders of Roma people in Starina (December 23, 1944), etc. Part of this collection is created by the memories of the people who were arrested and deported to the labor, concentration or prison camps in the territory of the contemporary Slovak state and also abroad. This kind of memories is rare in the collection, only 12 testimonies refer to experiences in Nazi concentration camps such as Buchenwald, Dachau, Mauthausen or Ravensbrück.

Appraisal

No data available.

Accruals

No particular accruals expected but possible.

System of Arrangement

Material is arranged alphabetically and thematically.

Conditions Governing Access

Accessible.

Conditions Governing Reproduction

Archival documents can be reproduced with the permission of the archive and in accordance with archive´s Research Rules (Bádateľský poriadok) as well as other internal regulations of the Ministry of Interior.

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Archival documents can be reproduced with the permission of the archive and in accordance with archive´s Research Rules (Bádateľský poriadok) as well as other internal regulations of the Museum of Slovak National Uprising.

Finding Aids

  • Printed inventory available in the Research room.

Archivist Note

The collection was identified and described by Michala Lônčíková.

Rules and Conventions

EHRI Guidelines for Description v.1.0

Corporate Bodies

Places