Archival Descriptions

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Language of Description: English
Language of Description: Multiple
Country: Slovakia
  1. Mestský úrad v Lučenci II. 1938 - 1944

    • City Office of Lučenec II. 1938 - 1944

    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 ...

  2. Matričný úrad Rabínstva židovskej náboženskej obce v Košiciach

    • The Registry Office of the Chief Rabbi of the Jewish Religious Community of Košice

    The collection contains documents from the Registry Office of the Chief Rabbi of Košice, divided into 24 boxes. Materials regarding the period between 1938 and 1944 are in the last three boxes. Mainly, the registers of the Orthodox Jewish religious community were preserved in the collection, as well as documents regarding the wartime activity of Márk Eckstein, the Status you ante chief rabbi of Košice. In addition, the collection preserves also the petitions of Jewish residents born in Košice who contacted the religious community during WWII regarding passport or citizenship issues or becau...

  3. Štátne občianstvá a domovské príslušnosti

    • Citizenships and domicile rights

    It is an artificially created collection of materials which consists of documents extracted from 4 archival fonds. It contains the personal documents of about 5,500 residents of Košice - including many Jews - from the period between 1909 and 1944. These files concern their citizenship and their domicile right (domovská príslušnosť in Slovak, községi illetőség in Hungarian). The documents created between 1938 and 1944 are preserved in about 40 boxes. These mostly contain files of approximately 1300 people, including residents of Jewish religion. Each file contains a large amount of personal ...

  4. Obecný notársky úrad v Lelese

    • Notary Office of Leles

    The agenda of the Notary Office of Leles holds records of the local administration in the period between 1882 and 1944, including materials on anti-Jewish measures, the persecution of Jews, and the Aryanization of Jewish property during World War II. Most of the documents concern the municipality of Leles, but also its two neighboring villages, Poľany and Soľnička. Most of the collection’s materials concerning anti-Jewish measures, the deportation of the local Jewry of Leles, Poľany, and Soľnička, as well as the Aryanization of their property can be found in boxes n. 16 – 23. These archival...

  5. Gemersko-malohontská župa III. 1920 – 1944

    • Gemer-Malohont County III. 1920 – 1944
    • Gömör-Kishont Vármegye III. 1920 – 1944

    The archival collection of the Gemer-Malohont County (in Hungarian Gömör-Kishont Vármegye) holds records of the county administration from the period between 1920 and 1944. As for the wartime years in 1939 - 1944, it preserves archival materials concerning Jewish life and various files on anti-Jewish measures and the persecution of the Jewish population taking place in the cities and in the countryside of the Gemer-Malohont County. These documents concern mainly the Aryanization of Jewish property. For example, one might find here the inventory of the equipment that belonged to the medical ...

  6. Župné mesto Nové Zámky (1939 - 1944)

    • Érsekújvár megyei város

    In the fragmentary fonds, it is possible to find traders' records, records pertaining to business restrictions, revisions and withdrawals of Jewish concessions and trades. The fonds also contains documents on the aryanization of the mill and Jewish shops. The fonds contains also inventories of Jewish property, documents pertaining to the confiscation of Jewish homes and shops, as well as to a ban on Jews attending public baths. There is also a decree defining the streets of the ghetto preserved in the fonds. The fonds also contains a list of books from the town library that remained with Je...

  7. Policajné riaditeľstvo v Bratislave

    • Police Directorate in Bratislava

    The fonds contains documents of the Police directorate in Bratislava, the police and state security body with competences over the territory of the capital of Bratislava and several nerby towns. It contains documents on anti-Jewish persecution during the period of year 1938 – 1945 such as various lists of Jews created by the state administration and police bodies in Bratislava. It also contains the applications of individuals for the recognition of non-Jewish origin/status or applications of indivituals for the exemption from the obligation to wear the mandatory sign of a Jew. There are als...

  8. Osudy tých čo prežili Holokaust

    • Fates of those who survived the Holocaust
    • Nadácia Milana Šimečku
    • 01
    • English
    • 1938-1945
    • 145 oral history testimonies, digital video as well as transcription text files.

    Collection contains 150 video testimonies of the Holocaust survivors. It is a unique collection of testimonies describing the life of the Jewish minority in Slovakia during the 20th century. There are 69 women and 76 men testimonies. The oldest survivor was born in 1904 and the youngest in 1944. Most of the testimonies were collected from 1995 till 1999 with some additional testimonies added after the year 2000. Testimonies were collected using the oral history technique. Geographically they cover the whole territory of Slovakia including the southern regions which during the war were occup...

  9. Hlavnoslúžnovský úrad v Šali II.

    • Főszolgabíroi hivatal Vágsellye

    The fonds contains files of the Chief Constable´s Office in Šaľa (Vágsellye). The majority of files pertaining to the Jewish community consists of files pertaining to businesses, licenses and license-owners lists. The fonds also contains files pertaining to the revision of licenses of Jews, limitations of Jewish entrepreneurs, or files concerning the internment of Jews and the police surveillance. Some files reflect Jewish refugees from Slovakia. Another files concern the Jewish ghetto established in the town of Šaľa as files pertaining to the movable property of Jews that remained in this ...

  10. Zbierka IX. Nacistické okupačné jednotky

    • Collection IX. Nazi Occupation Forces

    Collection contains various documents dedicated to the activities of Nazi occupation forces which were operating in Slovakia after the outbreak of the Slovak National Uprising on August 29, 1944. Suppression of the armed uprising, which dominantly took place in the Central Slovakia with the center in the city of Banská Bystrica, was accompanied also by the massive and intentional persecution of the rest of the Jewish community in the Slovak territory. Material includes numerous information about mass executions in Kremnička and also about the later exhumation of the mass grave as well as th...

  11. Notársky úrad vo Fiľakove 1888 - 1944

    • Notary Office of Fiľakovo 1888 - 1944

    The agenda of the Notary Office of Fiľakovo holds records of the local administration in the period between 1888 and 1944, including materials on the Anti-Jewish measures during WWII, the persecution of Jews and the Aryanization of Jewish property in 1944. The archival collection contains the minutes of the town council of Fiľakovo, but researchers might find here also the statistics of the economic-social, national and religious life of the local population. Furthermore, the collection contains documents regarding the activity of the Jewish timber merchant, Samuel Grossmann. In box number ...

  12. Ministerstvo hospodárstva

    • Ministry of Economy
    • MH

    The fonds contains documents of the Ministry of Economy of Slovakia (1939-1945) which managed economic affairs, including industry, domestic and international economic and trade affairs and forestry policy. Besides other things, this ministry was responsible for the preparation and execution of so-called aryanisation of the enterprise property of Jews until September 1940 when the policy was changed. Its documents are therefore crucial for the understanding of early stages of expropriation of Jewish property in Slovakia, including the preparation of legislation (Law no. 113/1940 known as th...

  13. Mestský úrad v Brezne

    • Municipality Office in Brezno

    The fonds contains documents of the Municipality office in Brezno. These include various documents pertaining to the Jews living in Brezno nad Hronom including documents on anti-Jewish measures in the town such as list of Jewish doctors in Brezno from 1939, list of Jews who possess passports, documents pertaining the dissolution of Jewish associations in the town. Other documents pertain to the orders of the commander of temporary district labor camp for Jews, list of administrators of Jewish real estate property or documents pertaining to the evaluation of Jewish real estate property. Some...

  14. Notársky úrad v Malej Ide 1939-1945

    • Notary Office of Malá Ida 1939-1945

    The agenda of the Notary Office of Malá Ida holds records of the local administration of Malá Ida and four other villages in the period between 1939 and 1944, including materials on the Anti-Jewish measures, the persecution of Jews and the Aryanization of Jewish property in 1944. The archival collection contains the minutes of the city council of Malá Ida from the years 1939 – 1944 in which various documents regarding the Anti-Jewish measures have been preserved. For example, in box n. 15 documents on the Aryanization of the property of Jewish families have been preserved. Furthermore, the ...

  15. Živnostenské spoločenstvo v Košiciach

    • Tradesmen Association of Košice

    The collection preserves the documentation of one of the largest local associations of Košice in the period between 1872 - 1952. As far as Holocaust research is concerned, the collection contains detailed information regarding the situation of Jewish industrialists and tradesmen from the period between 1939 and 1944. One might find here various archival materials documenting the anti-Semitism of the population of contemporary Košice (for example in the form of complaints against Jewish industrialists), as well as archival files about the Aryanization of the property of Jewish tradesmen. The...

  16. Hlavnoslužnovský úrad v Rožňave 1939 – 1944

    • Chief Constable's Office of the Rožňava District
    • Főszolgabírói Hivatal Rozsnyó

    The collection of materials contains the administrative files that concern the political, economic, and social life in the villages that belonged to the office between 1939 – 1944. The persecution of the Jewish population is documented in the major part of the collection. These documents concern the Anti-Jewish agenda and the situation of the Jewish population in the territory of the district. The collection includes the documents of the liquidation of Jewish associations and citizenship application of Jewish inhabitants. One might can find here the preserved files concerning the activity o...

  17. Hlavnoslužnovský úrad Medzibodrožského okresu v Kráľovskom Chlmci 1944

    • Chief Constable's Office of the Medzibodrožský District in Kráľovský Chlmec 1944
    • Bodrogközi Járás Főszolgabírói Hivatala

    The collection holds only the fragments of the administrative agenda that used to belong to the Chief Constable's Office of the Bodrogköz District. A total of 6 documents are preserved in the archival fond and all of them concerns the Aryanization of Jewish property in Kráľovský Chlmec. These files document the appointments of non-Jewish managers at the head of the store of Jenő Reisman, Hugó Tannenbaum, Ignác Salamon, Miksa Rieder, Jenő Braun and Emanuel Weisz.

  18. Korešpondencia Židov odvlečených zo Slovenska do koncentračných táborov

    • Correspondence of Jews deported from Slovakia to the concentration camps

    Collection contains documents of the Jews who were deported from Slovakia to the concentration camps in Auschwitz, Terezín, Mauthausen, Kamionka and Petržalka in the years 1942 – 1945. Beside some original documents, the collection is created by the copies of correspondence of the persecuted Jews. There is also one document from 1945 which comes not directly from the concentration camp but it refers to stay in the camp – a health certificate. Rare part of the collection is created by the manuscript of Ľudovít Dojč on the concentration camp in Petržalka and photos of the grave stones from th...

  19. Notársky úrad v Moldave nad Bodvou 1939 - 1945

    • Notary Office of Moldava nad Bodvou 1939 - 1945

    The agenda of the Notary Office of Moldava nad Bodvou holds records of the local administration in the period between 1939 and 1945, including archival materials on the Anti-Jewish measures that were in force during these years. These archival sources are related mainly to the following issues: personal files related to Jewish residents, such as the number of local Jewry in 1939 (211 inhabitants), the list of Jewish doctors in Moldava nad Bodvou, files about the vetting of local doctors in 1939, official documents on Jews who converted to Christianity in Moldava nad Bodvou, as well ass the ...

  20. Halmi z Košíc

    • The Halmi family from Košice

    The collection is based on the legacy of one of the Halmi (Hennefeld) family from Košice in the period between 1867 and 1945. The documents that were preserved in the legacy are connected mainly to the personal files of four brothers, Félix, Jenő, Pál and Béla Halmi, and their sister, Piroska who were active in the political, social and cultural life of Košice. Many of the documents belonging to the family legacy concerns the life and survival strategies of the familiy after the first Vienna Award in 1938 and during the holocaust. Among these materials are also their requests for exceptions...