The agenda of the Notary Office of Fiľakovo holds records of the local administration in the period between 1888 and 1944, including materials on the Anti-Jewish measures during WWII, the persecution of Jews and the Aryanization of Jewish property in 1944. The archival collection contains the minutes of the town council of Fiľakovo, but researchers might find here also the statistics of the economic-social, national and religious life of the local population. Furthermore, the collection contains documents regarding the activity of the Jewish timber merchant, Samuel Grossmann. In box number 3. many documents related to the year 1944 have been preserved, including files on the confiscation of Jewish property.
According to the first Vienna Arbitration in November 1938 the town of Fiľakovo (in Hungarian Fülek), situated in the North Eastern part of the historical Novohradská County (in Hungarian Nógrád vármegye) was annexed to the Hungarian Kingdom. Its Notary Office managed the local agenda of Fiľakovo between 1888 and the end of the Second world war. In the period between 1939 and 1944 also Bulhary (in Hungarian Bolgárom) belonged to the district of the office. The Notary Office of Fiľakovo ceased to exist at the end of December 1944. According to the Hungarian census of 1941, Fiľakovo was inhabited by 205 Jews who were transported to the Lučenec ghetto, and later they were transported, during May and June 1944, to the Auschwitz-Birkenau.
Inventory made in 1964 available in the researcher's room of the archives.
Notársky úrad vo Fiľakove 1888 - 1944
The fonds was described by Veronika Szeghy-Gayer. Description edited by Martin Posch.
It is possible to make copies in accordance with the research rules of the archive.
0.92 linear meters, paper documents
Accessible.