Okresný úrad Ružomberok

Okresný úrad Ružomberok  

District Office Ružomberok 

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 such as banning the Jewish Party in Ružomberok, forced rehousing of the Jewish inhabitants from the city living on the streets and squares named by Adolf Hitler and Andrej Hlinka or cancellation of the Jewish associations in Ružomberok. Some documents are dedicated to the various steps of the process of Aryanization and organization of the deportations in 1942 on the district level, including the list of Jews from this territory. Fonds contains also the Pastoral letter of the Catholic bishop referring to the “Jewish question” from 1943. Jewish persecution in the district after the outbreak of the Slovak National Uprising on 29 August 1944 can be followed by the activities of the Government´s Commissary (Vládny poverenec) and especially by his order not to help rebels and Jews. Documents of the District Office from 1945 are only fragmentary, dozens of them were destroyed according to the order of Government´s Commissary.  

The documents are arranged chronologically and numerically, by the department.