Archival Descriptions

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Language of Description: English
Holding Institution: Archív mesta Košice
  1. 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 ...

  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. 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 ...

  4. 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...

  5. 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...