Okresný ľudový súd v Hurbanove

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 inventory in the Researchers´s Room of the archive. Limited access due to the declared protection of personal data. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, D. C., U.S.A. The fonds contains records of the District Poeple´s Court in Hurbanovo, which was the court of retributive justice after the Second World War. It contains several Holocaust-related case pertaining mostly to the territory which belonged to Hungary in 1938-1945. There are several files pertaining to the denunciation of Jews. One file concerns beating and humiliation of Jews. There is also a file containing information on deportation to Auschwitz.