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Country: Slovakia

  1. Zbierka VII. Armáda

    • Collection VII. Army

    This collection contains numerous selected documents which investigate the activities of the Army in the period of the Slovak National Uprising in autumn 1944. The most relevant Holocaust-related materials concerning information, including some photos, about VI. Labor Battalion which intentionally consisted of racially persecuted – Jews and Roma people.

  2. Okresný úrad v Bardejove

    • District Office in Bardejov

    Fonds contains the torso of documents of the former District Office in Bardejov. Besides the documents on the Communist movement in the district from late 1938, and late 1940 there are also several documents pertaining the activities and the staff of the Hlinka Guard and Hlinka Youth in the district. This includes lists of the Hlinka Guard members who were considered as the candidates for so called "temporary administration" of Jewish households from December 1940; set of historical photos of local dignitaries of the regime including some HG and HY members; file pertaining the confiscation ...

  3. Policajné riaditeľstvo v Prešove

    • Police Directorate in Prešov

    Fonds contains various documents pertaining the persecution of Jews and political oponents of the regime. Besides that it contains various important lists of Jews living at the territory under the control of the Police Directorate in Prešov such as the list of Jewish employees living in Prešov from 1941; the list of Jews who were not subjected to the social security and health insurance from districts Michalovce, Medzilaborce, Bardejov, Sabinov, Stropkov, Vranov nad Topľou, Trebišov, Giraltovce and Humenné. Then there is a list of Jews of so called problematic citizenship who lived in Prešo...

  4. Okresný úrad v Trenčíne

    • District Office in Trenčín

    Fonds contains documents of the District Office in Trenčín, which was the regional state administration body. Besides important documents pertaining to the political, economical and social history of the region in 1923-1945, fonds contains significant number of files concerning the persecution of Jews in 1938-1945. It contains documents pertaining to the appointment of so called governmental trustees into the firms owned by Jews, documents pertaining to the so called aryanisation of enterprise property in the district Trenčín. Besides that there are files pertaining to the dismissal of Jews...

  5. Okresný úrad v Trebišove

    • District Office in Trebišov

    The District Office in Trebišov was the state administration body. The fonds contains just a small part of the original documents of the District Office in Trebišov. Documents of District Offices in Slovakia are usually divided into presidial, administrative, military-related, technical and accounting files. The fonds is partially processed and the researcher has access to presidial documents of the District Office covering the basic political, social and economic events in the district Trebišov during the period of existence of the office. This part of preserved documents is cataloged in d...

  6. Okresný úrad v Piešťanoch I

    • District Office in Piešťany I

    The fonds of the District Office in Piešťany as the regional state administration body contains the imporant documents on political, economical and social history of Piešťany district in 1938-1945. Many files concern the anti-Jewish policy of the Hlinka Slovak People´s Party regime at the territory of Piešťany district. Several files concern various reports on Jews living in Piešťany, and visiting famous spa in Piešťany. There is also a file concerning the preparation of aryanisation of Jewish enterprise property in Piešťany and document suggesting specific businesses for aryanisation. Some...

  7. Okresný úrad v Hlohovci

    • District Office in Hlohovec

    Reports on expulsion of Jews in 1938 by members of Hlinka Guard, dismissal of Jewish Party. It also contains documents on imprisonment of individuals in political prison in Ilava. As for the property persecution, the fonds contains documents on cancellation of licences belonging to Jews and appointing of governmental officials into the enterprises owned by Jews. There are documents on compulsory marking of stores owned by Jews in the district too. Fonds also contains various instructions and circular letters concerning variety of anti-Jewish measures, including the dismissal of Jews from pu...

  8. Okresný úrad v Dolnom Kubíne

    • District Office in Dolný Kubín

    The Fonds of the District Office in Dolný Kubín, as the state administration body at the regional level, contains the documents concerning political, economic, cultural and social situation in this district during the period 1923 – 1945. As such it contains many documents pertaining to the persecution of Jews living in this district in 1938-1945. Among others there are documents concerning dismissal of Jews from public service. Other documents pertain to the confiscation of ritual accessories of Jews or confiscation of their radios. Whole set of documents pertains to the so called revision ...

  9. Ľudový súd v Košiciach

    • People´s Court in Košice

    The fonds contains files of People´s Court in Košice which existed in 1948 as the retributive justice court . It contains several important Holocaust-related files pertaining to the persecution of Jews in Košice (then Kassa) which was part of Hungary (1938-1945). Among others there is a case file of former head of the ghetto in Košice (Kassa), then a case file of the former guard from the labor camp in Košice. One case file pertains to the denunciation of Jewish family in 1944 and its subsequent deportation to Auschwitz. Several files concern the persecution of Jews at the territory of Slov...

  10. Korešpondencia Židov odvlečených zo Slovenska do koncentračných táborov

    • Correspondence of Jews deported from Slovakia to the concentration camps

    Collection contains documents of the Jews who were deported from Slovakia to the concentration camps in Auschwitz, Terezín, Mauthausen, Kamionka and Petržalka in the years 1942 – 1945. Beside some original documents, the collection is created by the copies of correspondence of the persecuted Jews. There is also one document from 1945 which comes not directly from the concentration camp but it refers to stay in the camp – a health certificate. Rare part of the collection is created by the manuscript of Ľudovít Dojč on the concentration camp in Petržalka and photos of the grave stones from th...

  11. Okresný úrad v Žiline

    • District Office in Žilina

    Fonds of the District Office in Liptovský Mikuláš, as the state administration body at the regional level, contains the documents concerning political, economic and social situation in this district during the period 1923 – 1945. Fonds contains various partial information about the history of Jews before 1938 and mainly during the period of the Hlinka Slovak People´s Party regime (1938 – 1945) when the anti-Semitic measures came in force and Jewish community was systematically persecuted. District Office in Žilina has created a special Department for Jewish Affairs (Odbor pre židovské zálež...

  12. Okresný úrad v Trstenej

    • District Office in Trstená

    More than 80 linear meters of the archival material in the Fonds of the District Office in Trstená, as the state administration body at the regional level, contains the documents concerning political, economic, cultural and social situation in this district during the period 1923 – 1945 and as such it encloses also number of important documents pertaining the persecution of Jews living at the territory of Trstená district in 1938 – 1945 when Jewish community was being systematically persecuted. Several documents particularly inform about the history of Jews before 1938 and mainly during the...

  13. Okresný úrad Námestovo

    • District Office Námestovo

    Archival material in the fonds of the District Office in Námestovo, as the state administration body at the regional level, contains the documents concerning political, economic, cultural and social situation in this district during the period 1923 – 1945 and as such it encloses also number of important documents pertaining the persecution of Jews living at the territory of Námestovo district in 1938 – 1945. Fonds contains various fragmentary information about the history of Jews before 1938 and mainly during the period of the Hlinka Slovak People´s Party regime when the anti-Semitic measur...

  14. Okresný úrad v Martine

    • District Office in Martin

    Archival fonds of the District Office in Martin, as the state administration body at the regional level, contains the documents concerning political, economic, cultural and social situation in this district during the period 1923 – 1945. Fonds is well preserved and among the 129 linear meters it contains various partial information about the history of Jews before 1938 and mainly during the period of the Hlinka Slovak People´s Party regime (1938 – 1945) when the anti-Semitic measures came in force and Jewish community was systematically persecuted. Several documents address the banning of t...

  15. Okresný úrad Ružomberok

    • District Office Ružomberok

    Fonds of the District Office Ružomberok, as the state administration body at the regional level, contains the documents concerning political, economic, cultural and social situation in this district during the period 1923 – 1945. Fond contains various particular information about the history of Jews before 1938 and mainly during the period of the Hlinka Slovak People´s Party regime (1938 – 1945) when the anti-Semitic measures came in force and Jewish community was systematically persecuted. Documents provide with numerous information about the gradual limiting of rights of Jews in Slovakia ...

  16. Okresný úrad v Liptovskom Mikuláši

    • District Office in Liptovský Mikuláš

    Fonds of the District Office in Liptovský Mikuláš, as the state administration body at the regional level, contains the documents concerning political, economic, cultural and social situation in this district during the period 1923 – 1945 and as such it encloses also number of important documents pertaining the persecution of Jews living at the territory of Liptovský Mikuláš district in 1938 – 1945 when Jewish community was being systematically persecuted. Fonds is well preserved and among the 61,2 linear meters it contains various particular information about the history of Jews before 193...

  17. Osudy tých čo prežili Holokaust

    • Fates of those who survived the Holocaust
    • Nadácia Milana Šimečku
    • 01
    • English
    • 1938-1945
    • 145 oral history testimonies, digital video as well as transcription text files.

    Collection contains 150 video testimonies of the Holocaust survivors. It is a unique collection of testimonies describing the life of the Jewish minority in Slovakia during the 20th century. There are 69 women and 76 men testimonies. The oldest survivor was born in 1904 and the youngest in 1944. Most of the testimonies were collected from 1995 till 1999 with some additional testimonies added after the year 2000. Testimonies were collected using the oral history technique. Geographically they cover the whole territory of Slovakia including the southern regions which during the war were occup...

  18. Komárňanská župa III.

    • Komárno County III.

  19. Okresný úrad v Poprade

    • Distric Office in Poprad

    Fonds is very well preserved and contains important documents about the persecution of Jews living at the territory of district Poprad. It contains various documents concerning the aryanization of Jewish property, work permissions for Jews, employment of Jewish doctors and other experts etc. Fonds also contains the documents pertaining to the Concentration center for Jews in Poprad, such as reports on the deportations from that center during the 1942 deportation of Jews from Slovakia, report on the activities of Hlinka guard during the deportation etc. Besides that it contains various lists...

  20. Odbočka Ústredne štátnej bezpečnosti pri Policajnom riaditeľstve v Prešove

    • State Security Headquarter´s Branch at the Police Directorate in Prešov
    • UŠBO

    The fonds contains the preserved documents of the State Security Headquarter´s (Ústredňa štátnej bezpečnosti), which was the political police and the secret service of the Slovakia (1939-1945). More precisely it contains the documents of one regional branch of this political police: it branch in Prešov. The majority of the fonds consists of files on specific persons. The fonds contains information on various issues including ethnic relations, minorities, resistance as well as the persecution of Jews. The fonds contains personal files of many Jews with reports on their activities. This inclu...