Okresný ľudový súd v Prešove

Okresný ľudový súd v Prešove 

District People´s Court in Prešov 

Okresný ľudový súd v Prešove 

District People´s Court in Prešov 

4,5 linear meters, paper 

The fonds contains files of the District People´s Court in Prešov which was one of the retributive courts of post-WWII Czechoslovakia. Besides the files which contain the info on the political and military events during the period 1938-1945 this fonds contains files with info on various forms of persecution of Jews during the respected period, including several files on Aryanization of Jewish property, deportation of Jews living or hiding in various parts of Eastern Slovakia (Prešov, Mrázovce, Veľká Breznica, Vyšný Hrabovec) from Slovakia in 1942. Several of these files pertain former members of Hlinka Guard, Hlinka Slovak People´s Party (HSĽS) and former representatives of the HSĽS regime, state administration and police forces in District Prešov and several other Eastern-Slovakian Districts (Stropkov, Vyšný Svidník, Bardejov). Fonds contains information on labor camp in Hanušovce nad Topľou Fonds also contains files of persons accused of denouncing Jews to Nazi security bodies in 1944.