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Fonds was originally stored in State archive in Prešov in 1961. In 2016 it was transferred to the State archive in Prešov, workplace Archive in Bardejov.
Fonds was identified and described by Ján Hlavinka.
Following World War II trials with Nazi criminals and their collaborators were organized on the territory of restored Czechoslovakia just like in many other European countries of those days. Three-tier retributive justice system was established in the Slovak part of post-WII Czechoslovakia by the 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), which were established at district seats with the jurisdiction over the territory of specific districts represented the second tier within the system of the retributive judiciary in Slovakia. Within their jurisdiction fall all criminal offenses stipulated by the 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). A 5-member Senates of District People´s Courts, consisting of a Senate president and four member decided cases. The Senate president and his deputy had to be professional judges.
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
Catalogue, Author: Zuzana Kolesárová, 1991.
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0,6 linear meters, paper documents.
On-site research. Catalogue.
The fonds contains files pertaining the post-WWII prosecution of various crimes including the blackmailing of Jews, participation in deportation of Jews from Bardejov and its vicinity, and the so called Aryanization of Jewish property in Bardejov. Among those who were accused are the former members and dignitaries of local Hlinka Guard in Bardejov and Raslavice. Various files include the testimonies of survivors and important documents.
Okresný ľudový súd v Bardejove