Okresný ľudový súd vo Feledinciach

The fonds contains files pertaining the persecution of Jews in Feledince (Feled, today Jesenské) which belonged to Hungary in 1938-1945, Rimavská Seč (Rimaszécs) and Bátka. Several files contain the information on persecution of Jews living in Feledince (Feled), two files pertain the forced labor of Jews and the specific company 107/9 at the territory of Ukraine. One file pertains the arrest of six Jews who tried to cross the Hungarian-Slovak border in June 1944 near Ivanice (Balogiványi). One of the files contains the information on the arrest of Communists and Jews in Komárno detention camp. Following the Second World War 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-war 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. Researchers Room of the archive. Accessible.