Selected records of the District People's Courts and the Local People's Courts from the State Archive in Bratislava
Extent and Medium
171,420 digital images, JPEG
82 microfilm reels, 16 mm
Archival History
Štátny archív v Bratislave
Acquisition
Forms part of the Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. This archive consists of documentation whose reproduction and/or acquisition was made possible with funding from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
Source of acquisition is the Štátny archív v Bratislave (State Archive in Bratislava), Slovakia. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the filmed collection via the United States Holocaust Museum International Archives Project in April 2008 and December 2010. Another accretion of digital documents was received in September 2020.
Scope and Content
Trial and investigative records of Slovaks and former Hlinka guard members tried in the District People's Courts (Okresný ľudový súd) and the Local People's Courts between 1945 and 1947 for collaborating with the German security forces. Includes the trial records of individual Slovaks accused of denouncing their Jewish neighbors, the trial records of regional Hlinka Guard commanders responsible for the deportation of local Jews, as well as the trial records of political defendants. Features survivor and eyewitness testimonies describing the persecution of Jews and crimes committed against Jews.
System of Arrangement
Records received in April 2008 and Dec. 2010 are arranged in 23 groups: 1. Okresný ľudový súd v Galante (District People´s Court in Galanta); 2. Okresný ľudový súd v Dunajskej Strede (District People's Court in Dunajská Streda); 3. Okresný ľudový súd v Komárno (District People's Court in Komárno); 4. Okresný ľudový súd v Nových Zámkoch (District People´s Court in Nové Zámky); 5. Okresný ľudový súd v Bánovciach nad Bebravou (District People´s Court in Bánovce nad Bebravou) - [Note: case records from Bánovce nad Bebravou appear throughout the collection]; 6. Okresný ľudový súd v Hlohovci (District People´s Court in Hlohovec); 7. Okresný ľudový súd v Hurbanove (District Poeple´s Court in Hurbanovo); 8. Okresný ľudový súd v Piešťanoch (District People´s Court in Piešťany); 9. Okresný ľudový súd v Skalici (District People´s Court in Skalica); 10. Okresný ľudový súd v Senici (District People´s Court in Senica); 11.Okresný ľudový súd v Pezinku (District People´s Court in Pezinok); 12. Okresný ľudový súd v Topoľčanoch (District People´s Court in Topoľčany); 13. Okresný ľudový súd v Prievidzi (District People´s Court in Prievidza); 14. Okresný ľudový súd v Nitre (District People´s Court in Nitra); 15. Okresný ľudový súd v Šamoríne (District People´s Court in Šamorín); 16. Okresný ľudový súd v Želiezovciach (District People´s Court in Želiezovce); 17. L'udový súd v Bratislave (Local People´s Court in Bratislava); 18. Okresný ľudový súd v Bratislave (District People´s Court in Bratislava); 19. L'udový súd v Trenčíne (Local People´s Court in Trenčín); 20. Okresný ľudový súd v Trnave (District People´s Court in Trnava); 21. Okresný ľudový súd v Vrábľoch (District People´s Court in Vráble); 22. Okresný ľudový súd v Želiezovciach (District People´s Court in Želiezovce); 23. Okresný ľudový súd v Zlatých Moravciach (District People´s Court in Zlaté Moravce).
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Copyright Holder: Štátny archív v Bratislave
People
- Tiso, Jozef, 1887-1947.
Corporate Bodies
- Hlinka Guard (Czechoslovakia)
Subjects
- Antisemitism--Europe--History--20th century.
- Jews--Persecutions--Slovakia.
- Courts
- Trenčín (Slovakia)
- World War, 1939-1945--Collaborationists--Slovakia.
- Topol̕čany (Slovakia)
- Hurbanovo (Slovakia)
- Bánovce nad Bebravou (Slovakia)
- Bratislava (Slovakia)
- Nové Zámky (Slovakia)
- Hlohovec (Slovakia)
- Šamorín (Slovakia)
- Komárno (Slovakia)
- World War, 1939-1945--Deportations from Slovakia.
- Slovakia--History--1918-1945.
- World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Slovakia.
- Piešťany (Slovakia)
- Želiezovce (Slovakia)
- Prievidza (Slovakia)
- Nitra (Slovakia)
- War crime trials--Slovakia.
- Pezinok (Slovakia)
- Vráble (Slovakia)
- Skalica (Slovakia)
- Jews--Slovakia--History--20th century.
- Dunajská Streda (Slovakia)
- Trnava (Slovakia)
- Zlaté Moravce (Slovakia)
- Senica, (Slovakia)
- Galanta (Slovakia)
Genre
- Document
- Questionnaires.
- Testimonies.
- Registers.
- Correspondence.
- Reports.
Copies
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum holds copies of Holocaust-relevant archives from Štátny archív v Bratislave