Okresný ľudový súd v Dunajskej Strede

Printed inventory. Researchers´ Room of the archive. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Following 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 members decided cases. The Senate president and his deputy had to be professional judges. The fonds contains various case files pertaining to the persecution of Jews in Dunajská Streda which belonged to the Hungary in 1938-1945. Several files pertain to the denunciation of Jews. Several files pertain to the activities the Arrow Cross Party members and contains the information on the persecution of Jews including of deportations of Jews.