District Office in Prešov Okresný úrad Prešov

Identifier
irn46183
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2012.18
  • RG-57.011
Dates
1 Jan 1938 - 31 Dec 1945
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Slovak
Source
EHRI Partner

Extent and Medium

16,054 digital images, JPEG

Archival History

Štátny archív v Prešove

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 State archive in Prešov (Štátny archív v Prešove). The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the filmed collection via the United States Holocaust Museum International Archives Project in March 2012.

Scope and Content

Contains administrative records on the Jewish community and Jewish individuals in the Prešov District. The records include lists of Jews living in the region, deportation lists and exemptions from deportation, lists of labor camp inmates, applications of Jews appealing for exemption, Jewish work permits, ban of the Jewish press, revocation of licenses, individual files of Jewish doctors and lawyers banned from carrying out their profession, liquidation and aryanization files of Jewish properties, Jewish housing lists by street address and apartment number, request by the Orthodox Jewish community in Prešov seeking permission for a kosher butcher. Also includes records pertaining to the Sered concentration camp and other camps in the Prešov district, situation reports by local notary offices in the Prešov district on various political and economic issues (including the Hlinka Guard and anti-Jewish activities of the Hungarian gendarmerie), and requests by various district offices, such as in Banská Bystrica, Zlatých Moravce, and Topol̕čany , to search for so-called "deserted" Jews.

Conditions Governing Reproduction

Copyright Holder: Slovakia. Ministerstvo vnútra

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This description is derived directly from structured data provided to EHRI by a partner institution. This collection holding institution considers this description as an accurate reflection of the archival holdings to which it refers at the moment of data transfer.