Slovakian Survivors


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Background

A twenty-six page manuscript was compiled by Jews in Eastern Slovakia after the war as a record of the Jews who had been deported and survived. The document contains the names of over 700 individuals and their locations during and after the war, along with such pertinent information as numbers of missing relatives, lists of confiscated possessions, and names of Jewish organizations to which they belonged.

The manuscript was found in Slovakia in 1989 in a pile of books, tallitot (prayer shawls) and tefillin (phylacteries) in an old building in the Slovakian Jewish community. Jewish Holocaust survivors, returning to Eastern Slovakia after the war, gathered together and aided one another in adjusting to post-Holocaust Europe. They compiled detailed records on approximately 700 Jewish Slovakians who had survived the Holocaust and previously lived in Prešov, Jelsava, Košice, Užhorod and other towns. This list is unusual in that it comprises survivors of the Holocaust who returned in 1945 and these records appear to have been compiled in June 1945.

Of the 775 names, the majority (432) are those who were able to find places to hide and evade being rounded up; a very few (6) joined the partisans; and 232 were deported to camps for some period of time. Some pages have incomplete information, so that is why those numbers do not add up to 775. Note also that a few duplicate records exist, and a notation was made in those cases.

Database

This database contains 775 names of Jews from Eastern Slovakia who were either deported during the Holocaust or hide themselves and survived. The fields for this database are as follows:

Folio #

Sheet Number (Roman numerals). Corresponding to Original Folio Number out of 26 pages.

Rec. #

Sequential Record Number

Reg. #

Person�s Registration Number

Last name

Survivor's last name

First name

Survivor's first name

Maiden name

Survivor's maiden or birth name (may also be male�s original family name before an official name change)

Place of birth

Using contemporary place names

Date of birth

In format [DD-][MMM-]YYYY

Residence

Using contemporary place names

Marital status

(S)ingle, (M)arried, (W)idowed, (D)ivorced

Sex

(M)ale, (F)emale

Religion

JW = Jewish, RK = Roman Cath., GK = Greek Orth., EV = Evang. Church, RF = Reformed Church, blank = no religion.

Deportd

Date in format [DD-][MMM-]YYYY and place of deportation

Hiding

Number of months and the hiding place(s)

Returned

Date in format [DD-][MMM-]YYYY

Missing relatives

Father, mother, number of sons, daughters, sisters, brothers and spouse

Family in Palestine

Type of relative (brother, cousin, uncle�) and place in Palestine

Note

Notes without a specific column

Original file URL

Link to Low Resolution original sheet scan

Acknowledgments

Madeleine Isenberg (Beverly Hills, CA, USA) and Peter Absolon (Košice, Slovakia) voluntarily undertook to transcribe the 775 records of names found in the 26-page "The Slovakian Manuscript" that is owned by the Simon Wiesenthal Center (SWC) Museum of Tolerance Library and Archives. The pair gratefully acknowledge the Library's providing them with access to the high resolution digital images to enable them to work on this project. Additionally, the SWC Library has granted JewishGen free use of the resulting data for genealogical research purposes.

In addition, thanks to JewishGen Inc. for providing the website and database expertise to make this database accessible. Special thanks to Warren Blatt and Michael Tobias for their continued contributions to Jewish genealogy. Particular thanks to Nolan Altman, Vice President of Data Acquisition and Coordinator of JewishGen�s Holocaust Database files.

Nolan Altman
March, 2016

Slovakian Survivors

Introduction by Madeleine Isenberg and Peter Absolon

Background

Database

Acknowledgments

Searching the Database

Learn more about our organizational leadership, mission, and values. There are numerous opportunities to get involved yourself!

Search millions of records from around the globe, including more than 4 million records related to the Holocaust, and more than 4.2 million burial records. Records are continually added each month - check back often for new information!

Discover your ancestral town, explore geographic/regional based sections of the JewishGen site (Research Divisions), and explore what daily life was like for your ancestors - and what we can learn from them today.

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Slovakian Survivors

Introduction by Madeleine Isenberg and Peter Absolon

Background

Database

Acknowledgments

Searching the Database