Okresný úrad v Piešťanoch I

The fonds of the District Office in Piešťany as the regional state administration body contains the imporant documents on political, economical and social history of Piešťany district in 1938-1945. Many files concern the anti-Jewish policy of the Hlinka Slovak People´s Party regime at the territory of Piešťany district. Several files concern various reports on Jews living in Piešťany, and visiting famous spa in Piešťany. There is also a file concerning the preparation of aryanisation of Jewish enterprise property in Piešťany and document suggesting specific businesses for aryanisation. Some documents pertain to the expropriation of Jewish property, namely cars, radios and typewriters.There is also a file on the prohibition for Jews to live in certain parts of Piešťany. The District Office in Piešťany was a state administration body. It was established during the period of 1st Czechoslovak Republic (1918-1938) and it existed also during the period of the Slovak state/ Slovak Republic (1939-1945). Since 1 January 1940, the Piešťany district was incorporated into the the newly established Trenčín County (Trenčianska župa) and was subordinated to the County Office of the Trenčín County (Župný úrad Trenčianskej župy) with the seat in Trenčín. The District Chief (Okresný náčelník) was the head of District Office in Piešťany with the responsibility for the state administration in the district as well as the work of the District Office. From 1 January 1940 District Chief was subordinated to the respected County Office and the Ministry of Interior. District Offices were superior to the local notary offices and regional notary offices which were the lowest level bodies of the state administration in Slovakia 1938-1945. Due to the fact that in the period 1938-1945 the vaste majority of anti-Jewish measures in Slovakia were put to life by the state administration bodies archival documents of District Offices represent some of the most important sources for the research of Holocaust in Slovakia. Printed inventory, Researchers´ Room of the archive. Accessible.