Miklós Kozma

• Records of the Office of the Regent Commissioner for Carpatho-Ruthenia (1939-1944)

• Magyar Nemzeti Levéltár Országos Levéltára
• MNL OL K 774
• English
• 1939-1944
• 1 fasc., 0,08 linear metres
• Updated 10 years ago

One of the territories Hungary (re)acquired from Czechoslovakia around the time of the latter's destruction was Carpatho-Ruthenia (known also as Subcarpathian Rus′ or Kárpátalja in Hungarian). The largest part of this territory was not integrated into the Hungarian county system but acquired its own Regent Commissariat. The territory has special significance for the history of the Holocaust in Hungary. In 1941, when Carpatho-Ruthenia became a staging area of the Hungarian army during its attack on the Soviet Union, the region soon became the site of the first mass deportations from Hungary....

• Records of the Hungarian News Agency. Administrative documents (1920-1944)

• Magyar Nemzeti Levéltár Országos Levéltára
• MNL OL K 654
• English
• 1920-1944
• 85 fasc., 36 vols., 13,71 linear metres
• Updated 10 years ago

The collection of the administrative documents of the Hungarian Telegraph Agency contains the documents from the executive committee of the Hungarian Telegraph Agency, minutes of the meetings of its directorate, papers related to its economic matters and personnel questions as well as its correspondence. This last part of correspondence includes exchanges between the Hungarian Telegraph Agency and various other national and international telegraph agencies and reporters. Among others, there is correspondence with agencies in Berlin (1936-1939), Rome (1924-1936) and Vienna (1936-1938). The H...

• Papers of Miklós Kozma (1897-1941)

• Magyar Nemzeti Levéltár Országos Levéltára
• MNL OL K 429
• English
• 1897-1941
• 85 fasc., 11,9 linear metres
• Updated 10 years ago

Miklós Kozma (1884-1941), director of Magyar Távirati Iroda (the Hungarian News Agency, MTI), Minister of the Interior, Governor of Kárpátalja. Kozma served as an army general during the First World War and began his public career as a member of the National Counterrevolutionary Army of 1919. He was the Head of Department for National Defense and Propaganda at the Supreme Commander and later served as the rapporteur for military affairs at the Military Office of the Regent. In 1920, Kozma was appointed head of the semi-official Bureau of the News Agency (even though the News Agency was oper...