National Memory Institute (Slovakia)

The National Memory Institute (Slovak: Ústav pamäti národa) is a Slovak public institution that holds the police records of the fascist Slovak State and communist Czechoslovak Socialist Republic regimes that ruled Slovakia during the twentieth century.[2] The Institute also promotes research into these periods of Slovak history and educates the general public of this history.[3] It publishes a peer reviewed journal, Pamäť národa, which is currently edited by Róbert Letz.[4] The founder of the institute was Ján Langoš, who served as director until his death in a car crash in 2006.[2]

National Memory Institute

Ústav pamäti národa
The institute's offices at Miletičova 19 in Ružinov, Bratislava
Agency overview
Formed	2003 (2003)[1]
Headquarters	Bratislava, Slovakia
Website	www.upn.gov.sk

One of the institution's staff historians, Martin Lacko, was fired in 2016 for promoting the Slovak State.[5]

James Mace Ward commented that the National Memory Institute "has done a brisk trade in publications on the Slovak state, much of this scholarship being of high quality. Yet the focus on the state seems disproportionate, as the institute’s archive has few relevant holdings".[6]