Okresný úrad v Michalovciach

  • District Office in Michalovce
Identifier
6088
Language of Description
English
Dates
1928 - 1944
Level of Description
Fonds
Languages
  • Slovak
Scripts
  • Latin
Source
EHRI

Extent and Medium

1,60 lm (8 boxes of files)

Biographical History

The District Office in Michalovce was a state administration body. It was established during the period of 1st Czechoslovak Republic (1918-1938) and it existed also during the period of the Slovak state/ Slovak Republic (1939-1945). The office was originally established under Law no. 126/1920 Coll., which entered into effect on 1 January 1923. The District Office in Michalovce was subordinated to the County Office in Košice in the years 1923- 1928 and the Ministry of Interior. After the 1928 reform of state administration in Czechoslovakia resulted in the repeal of counties and County Offices, district offices in the Slovak territory were subordinated to the Country Office in Bratislava (Krajinský úrad v Bratislave). Soon after the creation of the Slovak state (March 14, 1939) its state administration was reorganized and the District Office in Michalovce was subordinated to the Ministry of Interior of the Slovak Republic (pursuant to the Law No. 190/1939 effective from 1 January 1940). In matters falling within the competence of other ministries, regulations and instructions of these ministries were implemented. Since 1 January 1940, the Michalovce district was also incorporated into the the newly established Šariš-Zemplín County (Šarišsko-zemplínska župa) and was subordinated to the County Office of the Šariš-Zemplín County (Župný úrad Šarišsko-zemplínskej župy) with the seat in Prešov too. The District Chief (Okresný náčelník) was the head of District Office in Prešov with the responsibility for the state administration in the district as well as the work of the District Office. From 1 January 1940 District Chief was subordinated to the respected County Office and the Ministry of Interior. District Offices were superior to the local notary offices and regional notary offices which were the lowest level bodies of the state administration in Slovakia 1938-1945. Due to the fact that in the period 1938-1945 the vaste majority of anti-Jewish measures in Slovakia were put to life by the state administration bodies archival documents of District Offices represent some of the most important sources for the research of Holocaust in Slovakia.

Archival History

No data on the archival history are available.

Acquisition

No data on the archival acquisition are available.

Scope and Content

Fonds contains torso of the original files of the District Office in Michalovce, which was the state administration body. Besides several presidential files pertaining the economic and political situation in Michalovce, as well as several blue prints of buildings construction plans, the fonds contains just a few Holocaust-related documents. These include the List of persons of Jewish ethnicity applying for the state citizenship from 1938; File pertaining the expulsion of foreigners with the instruction on expulsion of Jews; The list of Jews living in the town of Michalovce on December 4, 1940; Documents pertaining the investigation and punishment of persons convicted of robbery of houses which previously belonged to deported Jews from 1943. The fonds also contains monthly Situation reports of the District Chief Officer which cover several months of years 1941, 1942 and 1943 and give some information on anti-Jewish measures taken at the territory of Michalovce district as well as the situation of Jewish population.

Appraisal

No data available.

Accruals

No accruals expected.

System of Arrangement

The fonds contains of 8 boxes of files with the torso of documents of several departments of the District Office in Michalovce. No system of Arrangement.

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.

Finding Aids

  • No finding aid available.

Sources

  • On-site desk research.

Rules and Conventions

EHRI Guidelines for Description v.1.0