Selected records of the District People's Courts and the Local People's Courts from the State Archive in Prešov
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
People
- Kapralčík, Jan--Trials, litigation, etc.
- Schmidt, Karl--Trials, litigation, etc.
Corporate Bodies
- Slovak People's Party
Subjects
- Slovakia--Politics and government--1914-1944.
- Trials (Crimes against humanity)--Slovakia.
- World War, 1939-1945--Collaborationists--Slovakia.
- War crime trials--Slovakia.
- Jews--Legal status, laws, etc.--Slovakia.
- Sabinov (Slovakia)
- Prešov (Slovakia)
- Jews--Slovakia--Sabinov--History.
- Bardejov (Slovakia)
- Giraltovce (Slovakia)
- Trials (Treason)--Slovakia.
- War criminals--Slovakia.
- Jews--Persecutions--Slovakia--Prešov--Registers.
Genre
- Reports.
- Document
- Testimonies.
Copies
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum holds copies of Holocaust-relevant archives from Štátny archív v Prešove