Metadata: District Office of Michalovce
Collection
- Country:
- Slovakia
- Holding institution:
- State Archive in Košice, Michalovce branch
- Holding institution (official language):
- Štátny archív v Košiciach, pracovisko archív Michalovce
- Postal address:
- Štefana Tučeka 4, Michalovce, 071 01
- Phone number:
- 00421 56 6424 427
- Web address:
- http://www.minv.sk/?archivy
- Email:
- archiv.ke.mi@minv.sk
- Reference number:
- 6088
- Title:
- District Office of Michalovce
- Title (official language):
- Okresný úrad v Michalovciach
- Creator/accumulator:
- District Office of Michalovce
- Date(s):
- 1928/1944
- Language:
- Slovak
- Extent:
- 1.60 linear metres
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The fonds contains fragments of official books, filing registers, and two boxes of partly preserved files. It is possible that references to the Jewish community have been preserved, for example, in official books. The largest part of the documents comes from the Forest Department of the District Office. The second largest group of documents concerns elections. Within them, there is a small part of the documents recording the life of the Jewish community, which was quite important in Michalovce. The fonds includes the candidate list of the Jewish Party in Michalovce for municipal election in 1926. The candidate list has 16 names. One of the candidates was Samuel Ehrenfeld, who was the director of the Jewish Credit Cooperative in Michalovce. From 1931, a book titled The Register of Election Results, Terms, and Members of the Municipal Council of Michalovce has been preserved. The joint Jewish parties received 1,061 votes and 10 mandates, the highest number in the council. In the election to the municipal council in 1936, three Jewish parties were standing. It was the Jewish Economic Party - Jüdische Wirtschaftspartei - Zsidó gazdasági párt, where the traders prevailed. Filip Reich, who was the director of the Michalovce brewery, also stood for it. There were also the Electoral Group of the Central Jewish Party in Michalovce and the Group of Jewish Traders of the Czechoslovak Trade Party. From 1938, there is a register of applications for citizenship of persons of Jewish origin from Michalovce containing the names of 118 family members. There are also some other registers of Jews from a later period as well as situational reports of the District Chief which also map anti-Jewish measures. These documents date back to the Holocaust period.
- Archival history:
- Only a fragment of the fonds has been preserved, part of the material being destroyed during the Second World War. In 1946, part of the material was discarded without an appraisal. The fonds was handed over to the Archives in 1954. It was arranged in 1962.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The District Office in Michalovce was founded in the period of the First Czechoslovak Republic (1918-1938) and existed in the period of the Slovak Republic (1939-1945). It was a state administration body, but also included self-governing councils. The District Office was subordinated to Košice County in 1923-1928 and after the abolishment of counties it was subordinated to the Land Office in Bratislava. After the establishment of the Slovak Republic it was subordinated to the Ministry of the Interior. The district offices were superior to municipal and district notary offices which were at a lower level within the state administration. The Office existed until 1944.
- Access points: locations:
- Michalovce
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds contains official books, registry finding aids and files. It is arranged in chronological-numerical order.
- Access, restrictions:
- Available for research.
- Finding aids:
- Štrbáň, Anton: Okresný úrad v Michalovciach, Okresný úrad v Sobranciach. Skupinový inventár, 1962, ev. č. 282.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Prague
- Author of the description:
- JMP/HDC Survey 2016-18
