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Bytča Archives Jewish Records
Sorted by Microfilm Number

On a recent trip to Slovakia, my cousins and I visited the Slovakian state archives in Bytča, one of 7 regional archives in the country.  Their paper documents are generally for researching the nobility and other things not relevant to Jewish history.  The main records are on microfilm.  They have a book listing their microfilm holdings, mostly sorted by place name (they also have listings by person’s name, with no obvious Jewish entries, and by subject, which might have topics of interest).

Each place name entry gave the religion of the records, as they are generally recorded by the local place of worship.  Žid means Jewish and there are a lot of them.  There are also records without any religion mentioned.  I don’t yet know if these are civil records (which could include Jewish residents) or non-vital record information on the given town.  A few of the towns with no religion mentioned records do not have religiously-based records, but most have both.

Below are the Jewish (Žid) entries, organized by microfilm number (given as a small group of films).  I’ve also sorted them by place name, the same order as in the book, in a separate post.  In many cases, the same location is represented in more than one set of microfilms.  I put those as separate entries, listed as such under Notes.

There are 129 microfilms of Jewish records.

If you’d like my original Excel document, it is below.  Note the two sheets inside it, one for sorting by place name, one for sorting by microfilm number.

Bytca Archives Jewish Records