Czechoslovak Population Census, 1930

138,323 Records

Census · Slovakia · 1930

Background

This database will ultimately contain information about all Jews living in Slovakia, recorded in the 1930 Census of Czechoslovakia.

The second Czechoslovak population census was conducted on 1 December 1930 (the first Czech census was in 1921). The statistical results of the 1930 Census were published in eight volumes, with a separate volume for housing data. This Census enumerated 136,737 Jews in Slovakia, out of a total Jewish population of 356,830 in all of Czechoslovakia. Slovakia’s Jewish population represented 4.11 percent of the total population of Slovakia.

This database will not cover the Czech lands (Czechia, Moravia, Silesia), nor the Subcarpathia (Podkarpatska Rus) area.

Note: This is an ongoing project; the database continues to grow as more of the census is transcribed. See the Transcription Progress map below for current coverage.
Fields Recorded

The fields displayed in this database are:

Box/Sheet # — The archive storage unit at the Slovak National Archive in Bratislava
Town — Place where the census was taken
District — The administrative district or region where the census was taken
Land — Slovakia
House # / Family # — House number from the cadastral map plus a number assigned by the census taker to the household
Surname — Surname of the individual. Female surnames are recorded in male form, i.e. without the “-OVA” suffix
Birth Surname — Maiden name or surname at birth (if recorded)
Given Name — Given name(s), spelled as listed in the record
Birthdate — As listed in the record, converted to DD-Mmm-YYYY format
Town Born — Town or village of birth, as listed in the record
Comment — Further details, e.g. date of marriage, date of divorce, when widowed
Transcription Progress

The up-to-date visualisation of the processed data can be seen on this map:

Acknowledgements

This set of records was provided to the JewishGen Hungarian RD by a team of volunteers, coordinated by Peter Absolon: Michal Beseda, Peter Holy, Juraj Turcan, Vivian Kahn, Joel Meisels, Julie Adam, Todd Edelmann, Mattan Segev-Frank, Kathy Glatter, Peter Bakos, Miki Liptak, Adriana Amir, and many others.

The original records are in the Slovak National Archive [Slovenský národný archív] in Bratislava, Slovakia.

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Last updated 10 January 2022. Prepared by Peter Absolon.
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