Dokumenty k dejinám židovstva na Slovensku

Accessible with the special permission of the Slovak National Museum – Museum of Jewish Culture. Description of the collection in Sprievodca po achíve Slovenského národného múzea available in the Research room. Collection contains various documents on the history of the Jews in Slovakia, mainly materials dedicated to everyday life of the community members such as contracts, legitimations, licenses, testimonies, letters and postcards, birth certificates, school reports, photographs, health certificates, etc. One of the most relevant and unique Holocaust-related document is the original manuscript of the poem Crematorium (Krematórium) by Ladislav Grosmann, author of the scenario to the Oscar-winning movie The Shop on the Main Street (Obchod na korze). Newest items in the collection are declarations of dead of Jewish inhabitants who perished in the concentration camps during the World War II. Collection has been created by the purchased or donated material by the Slovak National Museum – Museum of Jewish Culture. Archival documents can be reproduced with the permission of the archive and in accordance with archive´s Research Rules (Bádateľský poriadok) as well as other internal regulations.