Museum of Tolerance (Simon Wiesenthal Center)

[1945?]

The Slovakian Manuscript. [Internet resource]

• 26 leaves [Height: 6cm (26.5"), Width: 84cm (33")]
• Number of Names or Other Entries-- Approx. 700 Names.

Archival and also Internet resource.

• Record of Jews from Eastern Slovakia.
• Deportation and Survival Register for Slovakian Jews.

• Simon Wiesenthal Center Archives (Los Angeles, California), Item Number: 1993-143 [001].
• Source Institution: Historicana (Judaica Collection) Burlingame, CA.

This manuscript was found in 1989 in eastern Slovakia (Presov?) in an old building of the Slovakian Jewish community. It was in a pile of books, prayer shawls and tefillin (phylactories). Jewish Holocaust survivors, returning to Eastern Slovakia after the war, gathered together and aided each other to adjust to post-Holocaust Europe. They compiled these detailed records about some 700 Jewish Slovakians who had survived the Holocaust and previously lived in Kivjast, Presov, Jelsava, Kosice, Uzhorod and other towns. Historicana in Burlingame, Calif. was selling this manuscript for $4,000 in 1994. According to Dr. Alice Ginott, a survivor from Presov who lives in New York, it was purchased by the Simon Wiesenthal Center/Museum of Tolerance Archives in Los Angeles, which has since computerized the information. Dr. Ginott plans to share a copy of the database with the USHMM pending the approval of the Simon Wiesenthal Center (4/96).

• Holocaust survivors --Slovakia --Registers.
• Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) --Registers of dead --Slovakia.
• Jews --Slovakia --Registers.
• Presov (Slovakia) --Registers.
• Kivjast (Slovakia) --Registers.
• Jelsava (Slovakia) --Registers.
• Kosice (Slovakia) --Registers.
• Uzhorod (Ukraine) --Registers.
• [Additional Geographic Keywords: Preshov, Preszow, Eperjes, Kassa, Uzhgorod, Ungvar, Ungwar]

A twenty-six (26) page manuscript compiled by Jews in Eastern Slovakia after the war as a record of the Jews who had been deported and survived. It contains the names of 700 Slovakian individuals and their locations during and after the war with 52 columns of detailed personal information including concentration camp information. It also contains such pertinent information as names of dead and surviving relatives, lists of confiscated possessions, and names of Jewish organizations to which they belonged. The covers and entire contents of this ledger formerly available online as part of the Simon Wiesenthal Center Digital Archives at http://www.swc-archives.com/detail.php?id=1993-143+%5B001%5D (Last accessed September 22, 2005) are more recently found instead at http://www.legalinformationmanagement.com/dbtw-wpd/exec/dbtwpub.dll?AC=GET_RECORD&XC=/dbtw-wpd/exec/dbtwpub.dll&BU=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.legalinformationmanagement.com%2Fdbtw-wpd%2Ftextbase%2Fswcdap%2FArchivesBasicSearch.htm&TN=Ready&SN=AUTO2501&SE=249&RN=0&MR=0&TR=0&TX=1000&ES=1&CS=2&XP=&RF=*TABLE&EF=&DF=*Details&RL=0&EL=0&DL=0&NP=1&ID=&MF=mymsg.ini&MQ=&TI=0&DT=&ST=0&IR=6&NR=0&NB=0&SV=0&SS=1&BG=&FG=&QS=ArchivesBasicSearch&OEX=ISO-8859-1&OEH=ISO-8859-1 (Last accessed July 11, 2016).
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Names from this source and several others can be seached online in the "Name Searches in the Simon Wiesenthal Center Digital Archives" database at http://www.legalinformationmanagement.com/dbtw-wpd/textbase/swcdap/NamesIntro.htm.

• Collection title: Record of Jews from Eastern Slovakia.
• Formerly cataloged under the title: Deportation and Survival Register for Slovakian Jews.

Former Q&A Name Lists Database File Number-- PS0235