Okresný ľudový súd v Galante

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. Printed finding aid. Researchers´ Room of the archive. The fonds contains files pertaining the persecution of Jews in Galanta and surrounding area which belonged to Hungary in 1938-1945 but contains also files pertaining to the persecution of Jews at the territory of Slovakia (1938-1945). Several files contain the information on denunciation of Jews. There is a case file pertaining to the denunciation of smuggling of Jews over the Slovak-Hungarian border. Fonds contains several files of Arrow Cross Party memebers which contain the information on the persecution of Jews. There are also files of the Slovak Hlinka Guard members who were prosecuted after 1945 by this particular District People´s Court. 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. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, D. C., U.S.A. Accessible.