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Language of Description: English
Country: Slovakia

  1. Zbierka spomienkových prác

    • Collection of memorial works

    The collection of memoirs in the Military Historical Archive was created from the memoirs obtained from the Military Historical Institute in Bratislava and from the archive's own collection activities since the archive was founded in 1994. The authors of the memoirs are mainly military persons who served in the Austro-Hungarian army and in the Czechoslovak legions during the First World War, in the Czechoslovak army in 1918-1939, in the Slovak army in 1939-1945, in the Czechoslovak army after 1945, and especially the participants of the Czechoslovak domestic and foreign resistance in the ye...

  2. 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)...

  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. 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.

  5. 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...

  6. 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).

  7. Zemplínska župa II. Okupované územie

    • Zemplín County II. Occupied territory

    The fonds contains archival materials from the territory of historical Zemplín County which was annexed by the Hungarian Kingdom in 1938. It documents the anti-Jewish measures and various forms of persecution of the Jewish population taking place in the period between 1939 and 1944. These documents concern mainly the property of Jewish population, applications for citizenships and the arization of Jewish property.

  8. 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...

  9. 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...

  10. Župné mesto Rimavská Sobota 1938 - 1944

    • Rimavská Sobota City with County rights 1938 - 1944

  11. 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...