Mestský úrad v Lučenci II. 1938 - 1944
- City Office of Lučenec II. 1938 - 1944
Extent and Medium
5,17 linear meters, paper documents
Biographical History
According to the first Vienna Arbitration, the southern part of daily Slovakia, including the city of Lučenec (in Hungarian Losonc) was ceded to the Hungarian Kingdom in November 1938. After the border changes, the city was classified as a county town based on Decree No. 6460/1939 of the Hungarian Ministry of the Interior. Lučenec during these years belonged to the Novohradská County (in Hungarian Nógrád vármegye). According to the Hungarian census of 1941, the city was inhabited by 1749 Jews who composed 12% of the local population. The majority of them were murdered during the holocaust. The city was under Hungarian administration until the 20th of December 1944.
Scope and Content
The collection holds the records of the city administration of Lučenec between 1938 and 1944. It contains various files regarding the political, economic, and social life of Lučenec during the wartime period. The persecution of the Jewish population is documented in the major part of the collection. Researchers might find in the collection the files of Jewish inhabitants who applied for an exception or their applications for certificates of state affiliation, as well as more documents concerning their trade permits which they have lost as a result os Anti-Jewish measures. An important part of the collection concerns the ghettoization of Jewish inhabitants of Lučenec in 1944 in box number 21. Furthermore, the collection contains various files on the abolition of left-wing political parties and Jewish property that were transferred into non-Jewish ownership in 1944.
Conditions Governing Access
Accessible.
Conditions Governing Reproduction
It is possible to make copies in accordance with the research rules of the archive.
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
At the end of WWII, the archival collection was partially damaged and some parts of it were lost.
Finding Aids
The originally printed inventory made in 1969 is available in the researcher's room of the archives.
Archivist Note
The fonds was described by Veronika Szeghy-Gayer. Description edited by Martin Posch.
Rules and Conventions
EHRI Guidelines for Description v.1.0