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  4. Okresný úrad v Humennom

  5. Okresný úrad v Levoči

  10. Miliband, Ralph

    • ミリバンド, ラルフ
    • Milibend, Ralph 1924-1994
    • Miliband, Ralph, 1924-
    • Miliband, Ralph, 1924-1994
    • Milibend, Ral'f.
    • ...

    Ralph Miliband, the political scientist and socialist, was born in Belgium of Jewish parents on 7 January 1924. He and his father fled to London in 1940 as the German army was invading Belgium. Here he learned English and began to study at the London School of Economics (then exiled in Cambridge). After serving in the Royal Navy for three years he returned to his studies at LSE, graduated with first class honours, and then took a Ph.D. His first teaching post was at Roosevelt College, Chicago, but he then became a lecturer at LSE in 1949 until 1972, when he was appointed Professor of Politi...

  11. Rudolf Kasztner

    • Rezső Kasztner

    1906-1957

    Rudolf Kasztner, lawyer, journalist, Zionist activist. Kasztner’s name is associated with several rescue operations during the Holocaust. In 1942, he helped found the Relief and Rescue Committee (Budapesti Segélyező és Mentőbizottság or Va‘adat ‘Ezrah ve-Hatsalah) of Budapest, a clandestine group that smuggled Jews from Slovakia and Poland to Hungary. Kasztner brought copies of the so-called Auschwitz Protocols from Slovakia to Hungary at the end of April 1944. In the summer of 1944 Kasztner attempted a rescue operation that became known as the Kasztner Train. After Kasztner's immigration t...

  12. Országos Magyar Zsidó Segítő Akció

    • National Hungarian Jewish Aid Organization
    • OMZSA

    1939-1945

    The Országos Magyar Zsidó Segítő Akció (OMZSA) was established in Budapest in 1939 with the mission of raising funds for supporting those who lost their jobs or existence due to the anti-Jewish laws and regulations. The OMZSA was a Neolog-Orthodox-Zionist coalition that aimed to consolidate the Hungarian-Jewish self-aid actions. Jewish public activists saw the establishment of the OMZSA as an opportunity for both self-renewal and a growing inner solidarity among Hungarian Jews.

  13. Magyar Cionista Szövetség

    • Hungarian Zionist Alliance
    • MCSZ

    1927-

    The officially stated aim of the Hungarian Zionist Alliance was 'to promote Jewish culture through the publication of Jewish cultural, scientific, and scholarly books and periodicals’. It was not until 1927 that the Hungarian Ministry of the Interior finally approved its statutes. Forced to illegality in 1944 and 1949, the Alliance continued to operate and it is still an active organization.

  14. Samu Stern

    1874-1946

    Jewish community leader and businessman, president of the Pest Israelite Congregation (as of 1929) and of the National Office of Hungarian Israelites (as of 1932). Served as president of the Central Jewish Council from 21 March 1944 to the end of October 1944, when he went into hiding. Stern survived the Holocaust, returning to Budapest, where he died two years later.

  15. Freudiger Fülöp

    • Philipp von Freudiger
    • Pinchas Freudiger

    1900–1976

    Hungarian Jewish businessman, factory owner, community leader. Born in Budapest to a well-to-do family, Freudiger succeeded his father, Abraham, as the head of the Orthodox Jewish community of Budapest in 1939. Freudiger helped many of the Jewish refugees in Hungary. After German occupation, 1944 appointed to the Judenrat in Budapest. Through the intermediacy of Rabbi Michael Dov Weissmandel of Bratislava, Freudiger established close contact with Dieter Wisliceny of the Eichmann Sonderkommando almost immediately after the occupation in March, 1944. By bribing Wisliceny, Freudiger succeeded ...

  16. Ernő Boda

    1887-1967

    Ernő Boda, lawyer, deputy president of the Pest Israelite Congregation and a member of the Hungarian Central Jewish Council.

  17. Béla Fábián

    1889-1966

    Béla Fábián, Hungarian Jewish lawyer, publicist, liberal party MP between 1922 and 1939. He was the president of the Jewish Veterans’ Committee during WWII. He was deported, but survived the Holocaust. After the war he emigrated to the US.

  18. Zsidó Tanács

    • Central Jewish Council
    • Magyar Zsidók Központi Tanácsa

    March 1944 to January 1945

    Jewish Councils in Hungary were bodies of Jewish representatives forcibly created by the Nazis and their Hungarian collaborators to carry out restrictive and genocidal measures against the Jews. Along with the Central Council of Hungarian Jews some 150 local Jewish Councils were set up in Hungary in the spring and summer of 1944. They operated for only a few weeks and ceased to exist as soon as the deportations started. There was only one exception: the Budapest (Central) Jewish Council, which existed until the liberation of the Budapest ghettos in January 1945.

  19. Ministerstvo zahraničných vecí

    • Ministry of Foreign Affairs

  20. Ministerstvo hospodárstva

    • Ministry of Economy