Overview
- Description
- Trial and investigative records of Slovaks and former Hlinka guard members tried in the District People's Courts (Okresný ľudový súd) and the Local People's Courts between 1945 and 1947 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 political defendants. Features survivor and eyewitness testimonies describing the persecution of Jews and crimes committed against Jews.
- Date
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inclusive:
1944-1948
- Credit Line
- 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.
Physical Details
- Language
- Slovak
- Genre/Form
- Correspondence. Questionnaires. Registers. Reports. Testimonies.
- Extent
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171,420 digital images : JPEG ; 93.1 GB.
82 microfilm reels ; 16 mm.
- System of Arrangement
- Records received in April 2008 and Dec. 2010 are arranged in 23 groups: 1. Okresný ľudový súd v Galante (District People´s Court in Galanta); 2. Okresný ľudový súd v Dunajskej Strede (District People's Court in Dunajská Streda); 3. Okresný ľudový súd v Komárno (District People's Court in Komárno); 4. Okresný ľudový súd v Nových Zámkoch (District People´s Court in Nové Zámky); 5. Okresný ľudový súd v Bánovciach nad Bebravou (District People´s Court in Bánovce nad Bebravou) - [Note: case records from Bánovce nad Bebravou appear throughout the collection]; 6. Okresný ľudový súd v Hlohovci (District People´s Court in Hlohovec); 7. Okresný ľudový súd v Hurbanove (District Poeple´s Court in Hurbanovo); 8. Okresný ľudový súd v Piešťanoch (District People´s Court in Piešťany); 9. Okresný ľudový súd v Skalici (District People´s Court in Skalica); 10. Okresný ľudový súd v Senici (District People´s Court in Senica); 11.Okresný ľudový súd v Pezinku (District People´s Court in Pezinok); 12. Okresný ľudový súd v Topoľčanoch (District People´s Court in Topoľčany); 13. Okresný ľudový súd v Prievidzi (District People´s Court in Prievidza); 14. Okresný ľudový súd v Nitre (District People´s Court in Nitra); 15. Okresný ľudový súd v Šamoríne (District People´s Court in Šamorín); 16. Okresný ľudový súd v Želiezovciach (District People´s Court in Želiezovce); 17. L'udový súd v Bratislave (Local People´s Court in Bratislava); 18. Okresný ľudový súd v Bratislave (District People´s Court in Bratislava); 19. L'udový súd v Trenčíne (Local People´s Court in Trenčín); 20. Okresný ľudový súd v Trnave (District People´s Court in Trnava); 21. Okresný ľudový súd v Vrábľoch (District People´s Court in Vráble); 22. Okresný ľudový súd v Želiezovciach (District People´s Court in Želiezovce); 23. Okresný ľudový súd v Zlatých Moravciach (District People´s Court in Zlaté Moravce).
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- This material can only be accessed in a Museum reading room or other on-campus viewing stations. No other access restrictions apply to this material.
- Conditions on Use
- No reproduction of microfilms for third parties without written permission of the source archive.
- Copyright Holder
- Štátny archív v Bratislave
Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- World War, 1939-1945--Collaborationists--Slovakia. World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Slovakia. World War, 1939-1945--Deportations from Slovakia. War crime trials--Slovakia. Jews--Persecutions--Slovakia. Jews--Slovakia--History--20th century. Antisemitism--Europe--History--20th century. Courts
- Geographic Name
- Bánovce nad Bebravou (Slovakia) Bratislava (Slovakia) Dunajská Streda (Slovakia) Galanta (Slovakia) Hlohovec (Slovakia) Hurbanovo (Slovakia) Komárno (Slovakia) Nitra (Slovakia) Nové Zámky (Slovakia) Pezinok (Slovakia) Piešťany (Slovakia) Prievidza (Slovakia) Šamorín (Slovakia) Senica, (Slovakia) Skalica (Slovakia) Slovakia--History--1918-1945. Topol̕čany (Slovakia) Trenčín (Slovakia) Trnava (Slovakia) Vráble (Slovakia) Želiezovce (Slovakia) Zlaté Moravce (Slovakia)
- Personal Name
- Tiso, Jozef, 1887-1947.
- Corporate Name
- Hlinka Guard (Czechoslovakia)
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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Štátny archív v Bratislave
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Source of acquisition is the Štátny archív v Bratislave (State Archive in Bratislava), Slovakia. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the filmed collection via the United States Holocaust Museum International Archives Project in April 2008 and December 2010. Another accretion of digital documents was received in September 2020.
- Special Collection
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Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2023-08-23 09:29:11
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