Documents of the District People´s Court in Prešov were delivered to the State archive in Prešov in 1961. During the following processing of the fonds and the creation of archival catalogue archivists liquidated duplicate documents. Catalogue was created in 1991.
The 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-WWII 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.
Catalogue, Okresné a miestne ľudové súdy, Author: Zuzana Kolesárová, 1991. Copy in the Researcher´s Room of the State Archive 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.
Okresný ľudový súd v Prešove