Metadata: People's Committee of the County of Pirot
Collection
- Country:
- Serbia
- Holding institution:
- Historical Archives of Pirot
- Holding institution (official language):
- Историјски архив у Пироту (Istorijski arhiv u Pirotu)
- Postal address:
- Srpskih Vladara 130, 18 300 Pirot, Republic of Serbia
- Phone number:
- (+381) 10 320 952
- Web address:
- http://arhivpirot.rs/
- Email:
- iapirot@medianis.net
- Reference number:
- IAP-A.1.5.8
- Title:
- People's Committee of the County of Pirot
- Title (official language):
- Народни одбор среза Пирот
- Creator/accumulator:
- People's Committee of the County of Pirot
- Date(s):
- 1944/1959
- Language:
- Serbian
- Extent:
- 24.61 linear metres (119 administrative books and 209 boxes)
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- Good
- Scope and content:
- The collection comprises records relating to the social, economic and property conditions in Pirot and its surroundings in the period 1944-1959. Some of these deal with the fate of the Jewish population during the Second World War. Mostly, these are death registration applications submitted to the War Damage District Commission for Nišava County on 30 November 1945. 106 applications for death registration were related to Jewish citizens. The Commission had the authority to determine the amount of compensation for the treatment and burial costs for the deceased to be paid to the person who submitted the application. The applicants were surviving relatives, neighbours and post-war authorities and associations. The applications provided the following data: surname, father's name and first name of the missing or executed person, age, place of residence, nationality, information on whether the victim was a civilian or a soldier; when, how and where the person was killed or disappeared; the amount of estimated war damage; the occupying forces at the time of the suffering; name and surname of the applicant, occupation and residence.
- Archival history:
- The documents were transferred in 1959 from the National Committee of the County of Pirot and in 1991 from the Historical Archives of Niš.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The People’s Committee of the County of Pirot was formed as the People's Liberation Committee of Nišava County in August 1944. The counties were administratively divided into municipalities. Nišava County had 33 municipalities with 82 villages. In 1947 it changed its name to the People's Committee of the Nišava District in Pirot. Pursuant to the provisions of the Law adopted in1955, it operated under the name of the National Committee of the County of Pirot until 1959 when it ceased to exist and its territory was incorporated by the County of Niš.
- Access points: locations:
- Pirot
- Subject terms:
- Holocaust
- Vital records
- Vital records--Death records
- World War II
- System of arrangement:
- The collection was arranged according to the principle of the free provenance and chronologically.
- Finding aids:
- A catalogue of documents and record-keeping protocols exist.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Historical Archives of Belgrade
- Author of the description:
- Predrag M Vidanović; Historical Archives of Pirot; 2021
