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Selected records of the State Archive in Levoča

Document | Accession Number: 2017.33.1 | RG Number: RG-57.022

Selected records of the post-war trials and investigative cases of the District People's Courts and the Local People's Courts pertaining to Slovaks and former Hlinka guard members accused of 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. Also consists of wartime files of the local gendarmerie stations pertaining to the arrest and roundup of local Jews (1940-1944), and trial records from the Regional Court in Levoča (1939-1944).

Date
inclusive:  1939-1948
Language
Slovak
Genre/Form
Court records.
Extent
21,444 digital images : TIFF ; 733 GB .
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.

About This Document

Document Creator
Slovakia. Okresný úrad v Levoči
Biography
Following World War II, trials of Nazi criminals and their collaborators were organized on the territory of restored Czechoslovakia. A three-tiered retributive justice system was established in the Slovak part of post-WWII Czechoslovakia by Regulation of the Slovak National Council no. 33/1945 on the “Punishment of Fascist Criminals, Occupants, Traitors and Collaborators and on the Establishment of People’s Judiciary.” District People’s Courts (Okresný ľudový súd) were established at district seats with jurisdiction over the territory of specific districts; this represented the second tier within the system of retributive justice in Slovakia. Within their jurisdiction fell all criminal offenses stipulated by Regulation No. 33/1945, with the exception of cases under the exclusive jurisdiction of the National Court (which tried only the leading officials of former Slovak Republic, 1939-1945).
System of Arrangement
Consists of 15 individual Fonds arranged in fifteen series: 1. Fond Okresný súd v Levoči (District People's Court in Levoča), 1945-1947; 2. Fond Okresný ľudový súd v Gelnici (District People's Court in Gelnica), 1945-1946; 3. Fond Okresný ľudový súd v Kežmarku (District People's Court in Kežmarok), 1945-1947; 4. Okresný ľudový súd Poprad (District People's Court in Poprad), 1945-1947; 5. Okresný ľudový súd v Spišskej Novej Vsi (District People's Court in Spišská Nová Ves), 1945-1947; 6. Okresný ľudový súd v Spišskej Starej Vsi (District People's Court in Spišská Stará Ves), 1945; 7. Okresný ľudový súd v Starej Ľubovni (District People's Court in Stará Ľubovňa), 1945-1946; 8. Ľudový súd v Levoči (People's Court in Levoča), 1948; 9. Žandárska stanica Kežmarok (Gendarmerie station Kežmarok), 1942; 10. Žandárska stanica Spišská Stará Ves (Gendarmerie station Spišská Stará Ves), 1940; 11. Žandárska stanica Veľký Lipník (Gendarmerie station Veľký Lipník), 1944; 12. Okresné žandárske veliteľstvo Kežmarok (District Gendarmerie Command Post Kežmarok), 1943-1944; 13. Okresné žandárske velteľstvo Levoča (District Gendarmerie Command Post Levoča), 1941; 14. Krajský súd v Levoči (Regional Court in Levoča), 1939-1944; 15. Ľudový súd v Levoči (People's Court in Levoča), 1939-1944.
Special Collection
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive

Keywords and Subjects

Administrative History

Holder of Originals
Spišský archív v Levoči
Legal Status
Permanent Collection
Provenance
Source of acquisition is the Spišský archív v Levoči (The Archive of Spiš in Levoča). The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the ​digitized collection via the United States Holocaust Museum International Archives Project in​ March 2017, and accretion in August 2017.

Rights and Restrictions

Copyright Holder
Slovakia. Ministerstvo vnútra
Conditions on Access
No restrictions 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
Restrictions on use. Publication of documents requires the written permission of the Slovak Ministry of Interior, users should cite the original archival reference and name of the source archives in any work and publications. Personal data of individuals should to be published in anonymized form only. See cooperative agreement.
 
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