Odbočka Ústredne štátnej bezpečnosti pri Policajnom riaditeľstve v Prešove

Printed catalogue, Author: Zuzana Ščamburová, 1997. In the Researcher´s Room of the archive. Archival documents can be reproduced with the permission of the archive and in accordance with archive´s Research Rules (Bádateľský poriadok) as well as other internal regulations of the Ministry of Interior. The fonds contains the preserved documents of the State Security Headquarter´s (Ústredňa štátnej bezpečnosti), which was the political police and the secret service of the Slovakia (1939-1945). More precisely it contains the documents of one regional branch of this political police: it branch in Prešov. The majority of the fonds consists of files on specific persons. The fonds contains information on various issues including ethnic relations, minorities, resistance as well as the persecution of Jews. The fonds contains personal files of many Jews with reports on their activities. This includes foreign citizens visiting or traveling through the territory of eastern Slovakia and refugees. Besides that there are also files on correspondence of specific Jews or their contacts. Personal files include also files of non-Jews who kept contact with Jews. The fonds also contains the information on various anti-Jewish measures and incidents. This includes the file on killing of Jewish man in Vranov nad Topľou in May 1941 during the stay of German troops in the town. There are various investigation files of Jews in the fonds. The State Security Headquarters (Ústredňa štátnej bezpečnosti) was a political police of the Slovakia (1939-1945). It was created in December 1939 as a department of the Slovak Ministry of Interior. The State Security Headquarters was mainly focused on the domestic intelligence and state security matters. These included monitoring of all political matters (Social democrats and Communists, Jews, Ethnic minorities, but also matters of the ruling Hlinka Slovak People´s Party, Deutsche Partei , Hlinka Guard, Hlinka Youth, Freiwillige Schutzschtaffel and Deutsche Jugend), but also censorship of press and defense intelligence. In 1940 the State Security Headquarters created its branch in Prešov. Its official title was: State Security Headquarter´s Branch at the Police Directorate in Prešov (Odbočka Ústredne Štátnej Bezpečnosti pri Policajnom riaditeľstve v Prešove, abbreviation: UŠBO). This branch of the political police was responsible for its operation at the territory of two East-Slovak counties: Šariš-Zemplín County and Tatranská County. Accessible.