Okresný ľudový súd v Giraltovciach
- District People´s Court in Giraltovce
Extent and Medium
0,6 linear meters.
Creator(s)
- Okresný ľudový súd v Giraltovciach
Biographical History
Following World War II trials with Nazi criminals and their collaborators were organized on the territory of restored Czechoslovakia just like in many other European countries of those days. Three-tier retributive justice system was established in the Slovak part of post-WWII Czechoslovakia by the Regulation of the Slovak National Council no. 33/1945 on the Punishment of Fascist Criminals, Occupants, Traitors and Collaborators and on the Establishment of People’s Judiciary. District People’s Courts (Okresný ľudový súd), which were established at district seats with the jurisdiction over the territory of specific districts represented the second tier within the system of the retributive judiciary in Slovakia. Within their jurisdiction fall all criminal offenses stipulated by the Regulation No. 33/1945 with the exception of cases under the exclusive jurisdiction of the National Court (which tried only the leading officials of former Slovak Republic (1939-1945). A 5-member Senates of District People´s Courts, consisting of a Senate president and four member decided cases. The Senate president and his deputy had to be professional judges.
Archival History
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Acquisition
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Scope and Content
The fonds contains files pertaining the deportation of Jews from Giraltovce in 1942, denunciation of Jews during the deportation of Jews in 1942 and various forms of persecution of Jews in Giraltovce and Kračunovce during the period 1939-1945. The fonds also contains the file pertaining the post-WWII prosecution of the former member of SS, who served as a guard in Auschwitz.
Appraisal
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Accruals
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Conditions Governing Access
Acessible.
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.
Finding Aids
Printed inventory in the Researcher´s Room of the archive. Author Zuzana Kolesárová.
Archivist Note
Fonds identified and described by Ján Hlavinka.
Rules and Conventions
EHRI Guidelines for Description v.1.0