Selected records of the District People's Courts and the Local People's Courts from the State Archive in Prešov

Identifier
irn46184
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2012.19
  • RG-57.012
Dates
1 Jan 1945 - 31 Dec 1948
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Slovak
Source
EHRI Partner

Extent and Medium

15,553 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 Štátny archív v Prešove (State Archive in Prešov). 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

The trial and investigative records of Slovaks and former Hlinka guard members tried in the District People's Courts and the Local People's Courts 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 major political defendants, such as Karl Schmidt, the former chief of the Deutsche Partei in Bardejov since 1939 and Jan Kapralčík, former district chief of the district Sabinov accused of organizing the deportations of Jewish families in 1942. Features many survivor and eyewitness testimonies describing the persecution of Jews and crimes committed against Jews.

System of Arrangement

Organized in the following order: Fond Okresný ľudový súd v Bardejove (District People's Court in Bardejov), 1945-1947; Fond Okresný ľudový súd v Giraltovciach(District People's Court in Giraltovce, 1945-1947; Fond Okresný ľudový súd v Prešove (District People's Court in Presov), 1945-1948; Fond Miestny ľudový súd Prešov (Local People's Court in Presov), 1945; Fond Okresný ľudový súd Sabinov (District People's Court in Sabinov), 1945.

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.