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Language of Description: English
Country: Slovakia

  1. Okresný úrad v Trebišove

    • District Office in Trebišov

    The District Office in Trebišov was the state administration body. The fonds contains just a small part of the original documents of the District Office in Trebišov. Documents of District Offices in Slovakia are usually divided into presidial, administrative, military-related, technical and accounting files. The fonds is partially processed and the researcher has access to presidial documents of the District Office covering the basic political, social and economic events in the district Trebišov during the period of existence of the office. This part of preserved documents is cataloged in d...

  2. Komárňanská župa III.

    • Komárno County III.

  3. Okresný ľudový súd v Giraltovciach

    • District People´s Court in Giraltovce

    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.

  4. Okresný ľudový súd v Prešove

    • District People´s Court in Prešov

    The fonds contains files of the District People´s Court in Prešov which was one of the retributive courts of post-WWII Czechoslovakia. Besides the files which contain the info on the political and military events during the period 1938-1945 this fonds contains files with info on various forms of persecution of Jews during the respected period, including several files on Aryanization of Jewish property, deportation of Jews living or hiding in various parts of Eastern Slovakia (Prešov, Mrázovce, Veľká Breznica, Vyšný Hrabovec) from Slovakia in 1942. Several of these files pertain former membe...

  5. Šarišsko - Zemplínska župa

    • Šariš-Zemplín County

    The fonds contains preserved documents of the County Office of the Šariš-Zemplín County (Šarišsko-Zemplínska župa), which was the state administration body in Slovakia (1939-1945). Besides important documents on the political, economical and security developments at the territory of the easternmost county of Slovakia it contains very important documents on the anti-Jewish policy of the Hlinka Slovak People´s Party Regime. Fonds contains various reports about Jewish individuals, Monthly Situation reports of District Offices reflecting also the anti-Jewish policy and situation of Jews as well...

  6. Odbočka Ústredne štátnej bezpečnosti pri Policajnom riaditeľstve v Prešove

    • State Security Headquarter´s Branch at the Police Directorate in Prešov
    • UŠBO

    The fonds contains the preserved documents of the State Security Headquarter´s (Ústredňa štátnej bezpečnosti), which was the political police and the secret service of the Slovakia (1939-1945). More precisely it contains the documents of one regional branch of this political police: it branch in Prešov. The majority of the fonds consists of files on specific persons. The fonds contains information on various issues including ethnic relations, minorities, resistance as well as the persecution of Jews. The fonds contains personal files of many Jews with reports on their activities. This inclu...

  7. Okresný ľudový súd v Revúcej

    • District People´s Court in Revúca

    The fonds contains the files concerning various forms of persecution of Jews in Revúca. It contains testimonies of Jews from Revúca on their harassment and persecution. Fonds also contains the information on partisan activities in the vicinity of village Muráň as well as on the anti-partisan operations of German security forces in that area. One file concerns the prosecution of the former member of the Hlinka Guard who served as a guard in the Labor and concentration camp in Sereď (Slovakia).

  8. Okresný ľudový súd v Moldave nad Bodvou

    • District People´s Court in Moldava nad Bodvou

    The fonds contains the file concerning the confiscation of Jewish property and deportation of Jews from Moldava nad Bodvou in 1944. It also contains the file concerning the activities of Levente with pictures of Levente members in Moldava nad Bodvou.

  9. Okresný ľudový súd v Humennom

    • District People´s Court in Humenné

    The fonds contains the files concerning various cases of Aryanization of the enterprise property in district Humenné. It also contains the files pertaining the denunciation of Jews in 1942 and 1944, beating and harassing of Jews and deportation of Jews from the district Humenné in 1942.

  10. Okresný ľudový súd v Sobranciach

    • District People´s Court in Sobrance

    The fonds contains several files concerning separate cases of denunciation of Jews hiding in the vicinity of Vyšné Nemecké, Ruskov and Koňuša in 1944.

  11. Okresný ľúdový súd v Rožňave

    • District People´s Court in Rožňava

    Fonds contains files pertaining the persecution of Jews at the territory of Hungary as well as Slovakia (1938-1945). It contains the information on various forms of persecution Jews and handling of Jewish property in Rožňava as well as on handling the Jewish property in ghetto in Plešivec. Besides that fonds contains the file concerning the prosecution of the former member of SS who served as a guard in Auschwitz from Summer 1943 to 1945. It also contains file with the information on persecution of Roma members of the partisan unit in Sadovce and several files concerning the persecution of ...

  12. Okresný úrad vo Vranove nad Topľou

    • District Office in Vranov nad Topľou

    The fonds contains documents of the District Office in Vranov nad Topľou which was regional state administration body. Besides documents about various issues of social and economic character, this fonds contains sources on the persecution of the Jews living at the territory of the district of Vranov nad Topľou in 1938-1945. It includes documents on the appointment of governmental trustees into enterprises of Jews or dismissal of Jews from public service. It also contains essential documents on the registration of Jews during the preparation of deportation from Slovakia in 1942: the only pre...

  13. Okresný úrad v Medzilaborciach

    • District Office in Medzilaborce

    Archival fonds contains documents of the District Office in Medzilaborce, which was the state administration body. The fonds contains just a fraction of documents of the District Office in Medzilaborce, as the majority of the documents did not preserve. The collection contains only few documents related to the persecution of Jews in Medzilaborce district between 1939 and 1945 such as the Report of the District Office in Medzilaborce concerning the revoked trade licenses of the Jews in district; file pertaining the public official of Jewish origin and his request for an exception guaranteein...

  14. Okresný úrad v Humennom

    • District Office in Humenné

    Archival fonds contains documents of the District Office in Humenné, which was the state administration body. The fonds contains just a small fraction of original files of the District Office in Humenné, as the majority of the documents did not survive. The fonds contains only few documents pertaining the Holocaust. More specifically it contains the file on confiscation of cars belonging to Jews from Humenné; the circular letter of the District Office in Humenné for the so called Temporary administrators of former Jewish households from May 1942 and the file containing the information on ho...

  15. Ľudový súd v Košiciach

    • People´s Court in Košice

    The fonds contains files of People´s Court in Košice which existed in 1948 as the retributive justice court . It contains several important Holocaust-related files pertaining to the persecution of Jews in Košice (then Kassa) which was part of Hungary (1938-1945). Among others there is a case file of former head of the ghetto in Košice (Kassa), then a case file of the former guard from the labor camp in Košice. One case file pertains to the denunciation of Jewish family in 1944 and its subsequent deportation to Auschwitz. Several files concern the persecution of Jews at the territory of Slov...

  16. Maďarský kráľovský policajný kapitanát v Košiciach

    • Hungarian Royal Police Capitanate in Košice

    Fonds contains documents of the Hungarian Royal Police Capitanate in Košice (Kassa), including many documents related to the anti-Jewish measures of this security body during the period (1938-1944). Besides the documents on the so called check of the citizenship of specific Jews, expulsion of Jews trying to escape from Slovakia or search for persons who refused to enter the army there are also documents on the history of Jewish ghetto in Košice (Kassa), and the transit camp in the brick factory. This includes documents on the investigation of the smuggling of food into the brick factory cam...

  17. Okresný úrad v Prešove I.

    • District Office in Prešov I

    The fonds contains various files pertaining to the history and persecution of Jews at the territory of District Prešov in years 1938-1945. It contains reports on Maccabi in Prešov from 1938, documents related to the expulsion of Jews from the district in November of 1938, documents on the prohibition of the activity of Jewish Party, etc. It also contains various documents related to the economic persecution of Jews at the territory of District Prešov during the period 1939-1941, such as lists of so-called Temporary administrators of Jewish households, various regulations of concerning Jewis...

  18. Okresný ľudový súd v Sabinove

    • District People´s Court in Sabinov

    Fonds contains files of the District People´s Court in Sabinov which was one of the retributive courts of post-WWII Czechoslovakia. Besides the files which contain the info on the political and military events during the period 1938-1945 in Sabinov and its vicinity, it contains the file pertaining the persecution of Jews living in Sabinov district with various testimonies of survivors on deportation of Jews from the district in 1942, and the activities of former state representatives and Hlinka Guard members in Sabinov. Fonds also contains the file pertaining the persecution of Jews living ...

  19. Okresný ľúdový súd v Starej Ľubovni

    • District People´s Court in Stará Ľubovňa

    The fonds contains various case files pertaining the persecution of Jews in 1938-1945. Among others there is a file on the physical abuse of Jews in Gňazdy or robbing of Jews in Plavnica in 1939. Another file contains the information about breaking into the houses of Jews and the robbery in Stará Ľubovňa in May 1941. There is also a file with the information on anti-Jewish violence (breaking windows) commited by German children visiting Stará Ľubovňa within the framework of the KLV action in 1942. Several files pertain the deportation of Jews from Stará Ľubovňa and village Gňazdy in 1942. O...

  20. Okresný ľudový súd v Košiciach

    • District People´s Court in Košice

    Fonds contains files pertaining the post-WW II prosecution of various suspects and convicts for crimes committed at the territory of Slovakia (1938-1945) as well as Hungary (1938-1945). It thus contains information on various forms of persecution of Jews, Roma and political opponents which took place not only at the territory of Košice and its vicinity but also at the territory of war-time Slovakia as well as quite distant places abroad. Besides files pertaining the so called Aryanization of Jewish property in Košice and its vicinity; blackmailing and denouncing of Jews; as well as the depo...