Archival Descriptions

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Country: Slovakia
  1. Okresný ľudový súd v Ružomberku

    • District People´s Court in Ružomberok

    This fonds contains various case files pertaining the activities and crimes committed during the period of the Hlinka´s Slovak People´s Party (HSĽS) regime in 1938-1945, including the persecution of Jews in Slovakia. It contains documentation of the trials against some local party dignitaries and members (HSĽS and also Deutsche Partei) who were accused of propagation of the fascism and the ruling regime. Several cases refer to the activities of the Special Units of the Hlinka Guard (POHG) and their collaboration with Nazi security bodies during the occupation of Slovakia in 1944-1945, in pa...

  2. 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...

  3. Zbierka VII. Armáda

    • Collection VII. Army

    This collection contains numerous selected documents which investigate the activities of the Army in the period of the Slovak National Uprising in autumn 1944. The most relevant Holocaust-related materials concerning information, including some photos, about VI. Labor Battalion which intentionally consisted of racially persecuted – Jews and Roma people.

  4. Košice – mesto s municipiálnym zriadením

    • Košice - City with the Municipal Administration

    The town municipality agenda, summarized in a special the fonds named "Košice City with a Municipal Administration" covers the period 1939-1944 and reflects the life of Košice during the war years. By the Ordinance of the Hungarian Government no. 9330/1938 M.E. and the introduction of civilian administration in Košice on 20 December 1938 Kosice was incorporated into the Hungarian public administration as a "municipal town" - a free royal city. The fond contains a total of 125 inventory units, all of which is in Hungarian. Anti-Jewish measures agenda is present in the entire fonds and it doc...

  5. Župné mesto Rožňava

    • Rozsnyó megyei város
    • Rožňava City with County rights

    The collection holds the records of the Rožňava city administration between 1939 and 1944/45. It contains various files which document the anti-Jewish measures, the ghettoization and the deportation of Jews of Rožňava, as well as the Aryanization of their real estate property and their values. Researchers might find in the collection the personal files of Jewish inhabitants who applied for an exception or their applications for certificates of state affiliation, their requests for religious changes, as well as more documents concerning their trade permits. Most of these requests were reject...

  6. Alexander Bachnár

    • Alexander Bachnár

    The fond contains mainly copies of documents on the Holocaust in Slovakia, which were collected by Alexander Bachnár during his research in various archives, as well as the study of press and gathering of testimonies. It includes original versions of his personal materials and correspondence, as well as his own works. The copies or transcripts include Anti-Jewish regulations, copies of decisions, regulations of the Ministry of Interior, the State Council and Jewish Center; the Jewish Census from before the concentration of Jews and transports in 1942; the Census of Jewish Property (and docu...

  7. Zbierka VIII. Slovenská republika

    • Collection VIII. Slovak Republic

    This collection contains various documents pertaining the general situation in the Slovak Republic (1939 – 1945), including some information about the racial persecution. Even though, the Holocaust does not represent the main topic of this collection, diverse material encloses relevant information about anti-Semitic measures which were enforced and implemented by the main political bodies in the Slovak Republic as well as their latter practical realization in the country, in particular in the city of Banská Bystrica and its surroundings.

  8. Národný výbor mesta Košíce

    • National Committee of the city of Košice

    The national committee agenda contains archival materials of the city administration from the immediate post-WWII years between the end of the Hungarian Arrow-Cross terror in January 1945 and the communist coup d’état in Czechoslovakia in February 1948. The fond reflects several aspects of Košice’s postwar political, social, and economic development and everyday life, and as such it preserves also materials concerning Jewish life after the war in Košice and its surroundings. In the fond researchers can find the personal file of dozens of Holocaust survivors returning from the concentration ...

  9. Mestský národný výbor v Rožňave

    • City National Committee of Rožňava

    The agenda of the City National Committee of Rožňava holds records of the city administration in the period between 1945 and 1990. A specific segment of the archival collections preserves archival materials related to the immediate post-WWII period when Holocaust survivors were returning from the concentration camps and were trying to get back their confiscated real estate and movable property. The collection contains many applications and requests of different types for the recovery of their taken property (apartment, house, furniture, shops, household, other movable property items, etc.)....

  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 v Jelšave

    • Notary Office of Jelšava

    The agenda of the Notary Office of Jelšava holds records of the local administration 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 Jelšava from the years 1939 – 1944, in which various documents regarding the Anti-Jewish measures have been preserved. For example, one might find here the measure in which Jews were forbidden to sell their goods on the local markets or various files concerning citizenship ...

  12. 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...

  13. Zbierka spomienok o represáliách, perzekúciách, rasovom prenasledovaní a obetiach na Slovensku v rokoch 1938 – 1945

    • Collection of Memories of Reprisals, Persecutions, Racial Persecution and Victims in Slovakia in Years 1938 – 1945

    Among numerous written memories of radical and mass reprisals mostly from the period 1944 – 1945, this collection contains also various testimonies of the Holocaust survivors who were facing the mass persecution during and even after the suppression of the Slovak National Uprising by German Army forces, POHG, anti-fascist unit Edelweiss, etc. Significant attention is paid the to mass executions in Kremnička (November 5, 1944 – March 8, 1945), where more approximately 747 people were murdered, various memories are addressing the plundering and burning the villages of Kalište (March 18, 1945)...

  14. Okresné živnostenské spoločenstvo v Rožňave 1884 - 1952

    • Tradesmen Association of the Rožňava District 1884 - 1952
    • Rozsnyói Járási Ipartársulat

    The archival collection of the Tradesmen Association of the Rožňava District contains materials regarding Jewish industrialists and tradesmen who inhabited mainly Rožňava and other localities of the Rožňava District. Seven boxes of the collection are related to the period between 1938 and 1944, including various documents on anti-Jewish persecution and the Aryanization of Jewis property. The collection records preserve documents regarding the the abolition of Jewish business certificate in 1939 and 1940, as well as archival sources concerning the fate of companies or factories that were pre...

  15. Zbierka XV. Letáky, plagáty

    • Collection XV. Leaflets, Posters

    Collection is created by various visual materials such as leaflets and posters referring to the official propaganda of the Slovak state as well as the anti-fascist propaganda which was intensively spread and circulated especially during the Slovak National Uprising in autumn 1944. In particular, 17 items are Holocaust-related and they are mainly pertaining the official anti-Semitic policy of Hlinkova slovenská ľudová strana (HSĽS).

  16. 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 ...

  17. Notársky úrad v Jablonove nad Turňou 1939 - 1944

    • Notary Office of Jablonov nad Turňou 1939 - 1944
    • Szádalmási Körjegyzőség 1939 - 1944

    The agenda of the Notary Office of Jablonov nad Turňou holds records of the local administration in the period between 1939 and 1944, including various archival sources on the Anti-Jewish measures, the persecution of Jews, and the Aryanization of Jewish property in the territory of ňAbov-Turňa County in 1944. Most of the documents on Anti-Jewish persecution might be found in the boxes n. 15 - 18. As for these files, one might find here inventories of closed Jewish artifacts, lists of apartments owned by Jews until April 1944 in Jablonov nad Turňou, and documents regarding the property left ...

  18. Zbierka XII: Dokumenty memoárového charakteru

    • Collection XII: Memoir documents

    The collection contains primarily memories of the period 1938 - 1945, with most of the documents dating from 1944 when the Slovak National Uprising broke out in Slovakia. The memories of the uprising come from direct participants and from the secondary sources. The collection contains not only memories of the battles but also of the atrocities perpetrated against the civilian population by the forces of Nazi Germany and the forces of the wartime Slovak state and Hlinka's Slovak People's Party. Another part of the collection are testimonies concerning the prisoners in concentration camps. Th...

  19. 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...

  20. 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...