Okresný ľudový súd v Skalici

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. The fonds contains files of the District People´s Court in Skalica as the court of retributive justice in 1945-1947. Several files pertain to the persecution of Jews in Skalica or its vicinity. There are files containing the aryanisation of Jewish property, so called temporary administration of Jewish household as well as a file containing the information on deportation of Jews in 1942. One case file pertains to the member of the Special Units of Hlinka Guard (Pohotovostné oddiely Hlinkovej Gardy, POHG). Printed finding aid. Researchers´ Room of the archive. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, D. C., U.S.A. Limited access due to the declared protection of personal data.