District Office in Prešov Okresný úrad Prešov
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
Corporate Bodies
- Hlinka Guard (Czechoslovakia)
Subjects
- Banská Bystrica (Slovakia)
- Topol̕čany (Slovakia)
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Slovakia--Prešov.
- Antisemitism--Europe--History--20th century.
- Zlaté Moravce (Slovakia)
- Prešov (Slovakia)--Ethnic relations.
- Jews--Slovakia--Prešov--History.
- World War, 1939-1945--Confiscations and contributions--Slovakia.
- Jews--Persecutions--Slovakia--Prešov--Registers.
Genre
- Document
Copies
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum holds copies of Holocaust-relevant archives from Štátny archív v Prešove