Nation's Memory Institute and its databases - unofficial
users' guides in English
The mission of the Institute is to provide for the access to the up
to date undisclosed records of the activities of the repressive
organs of the Slovak and Czechoslovak states in the period of
oppression in the years 1939-1989. For genealogy research the most
valuable are the online databases documenting the Jewish persecution
in the period 1939-1945. Unfortunately, three of these databases
have only Slovak interface. There are the following four databases:
Liquidation
of Jewish enterprises (i.e. without legal successor ),
about 10,000 records, this is the only one database with English menu available;
These databases are particularly important for Jewish genealogy.
Most of the enterprises included the family name, thus the first two
databases enable family name search in the field "Enterprise".
Click on the interactive map and select a district. Example of a
search result (district Trenčín) is:
Legend
názov obce - town
počet domov - number of houses
počet obyvateľov - number of population
počet osôb v Súpise Židov - number of Jews
The numbers of Jews in southern Slovakia and Ruthenia
These regions were after the Vienna Arbitration annexed by Hungary,
these these regions are not included in the Slovak Jewish census of
the years 1942. The data presented here are based on the census in
1938
