Národný výbor mesta Košíce

Národný výbor mesta Košíce 

National Committee of the city of Košice 

Národný výbor mesta Košíce 

National Committee of the city of Košice 

763 boxes, paper. 

The national committee agenda contains archival materials of the city administration from the immediate post-WWII years between the end of the Hungarian Arrow-Cross terror in January 1945 and the communist coup d’état in Czechoslovakia in February 1948. The fond reflects several aspects of Košice’s postwar political, social, and economic development and everyday life, and as such it preserves also materials concerning Jewish life after the war in Košice and its surroundings. In the fond researchers can find the personal file of dozens of Holocaust survivors returning from the concentration camps or from hiding, searching for their property Aryanized between March 1944 and 1945 January. Most of these personal files are requests for national and political reliability or petitions for a house or apartment. Besides, they might also contain requests for the recovery of their taken property (apartment, house, furniture, shops, household items, etc.). Furthermore, the fond contains personal applications in which Jewish residents tell their own stories and request a passport or inform the city administration about leaving the Jewish religious community. As for the Jewish religious life is concerned, in the fond several documents concerning the religious community (mainly issues related to its property) is also preserved. In addition, various files contain information on the Hungarian Arrow Cross terror in the city between October 1944 and January 1945, including Anti-Jewish persecution in this period. These documents were created in 1944 but were filed only in 1945 or later due to some official matter.