Obvodný úrad Miestnych národných výborov v Rimavskej Sobote 1945 - 1950

The District Office of the Local National Committees in Rimavská Sobotá holds records of the local administration of Rimavská Sobota, Tomašovce, Jesenské and Bátka between 1945 and 1950. The fond reflects several aspects of the local postwar political, social, and economic development and everyday life, and as such it preserves materials also about Jewish life after the war in Rimavská Sobota and its surroundings. A great part of the archival collections is related to the immediate post-WWII period when Holocaust survivors were returning from the concentration camps or from hiding, searching for their property Aryanized between March 1944 and 1945 January. The collection contains documents on Jewish property, and Jewish religious life, as well as various testimonies about the deportation of Jewish inhabitants from Rimavská Sobota in 1944. Besides, many of the files that have been preserved contain requests from Jews for the recovery of their taken property (apartments, houses, furniture, shops, household items, etc.). A part of the documents were created in 1944 but were filed only in 1945 or later due to some administrative or technical matter, as a result, researchers might find here files related to also the ghettoization of the Jewish population in Rimavská Sobota in 1944. The collection is complete, preserved, and undamaged.