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  1. Külföldieket Ellenőrző Országos Központi Hatóság

    • Central National Authority for Controlling Foreigners
    • KEOKH

    KEOKH was originally established in 1930 and started to operate in 1931. It exercised the rights of the Minister of the Interior in relation to non-citizens residing in Hungary. In summer 1941 the KEOKH was one of the initiator and executor of the Kamenets-Podolski deportation.

  2. Ministerstvo sociální péče, Praha

    • Ministry of Social Welfare

  3. Stern, Samu (1874 - 1946)

    Banker, Jewish community leader, president of the Jewish Council throughout its entire existence. Stern’s started his career as a wholesale food distributor, later he became the chief executive of one of Hungary’s largest financial institutions. He became involved in Jewish community life in the interwar period. In 1929, he was elected president of the Pest Israelite Congregation and in 1932 of the National Office of Hungarian Israelites. After the German occupation of Hungary in March 1944, Stern was appointed head of the Jewish Council by the Nazis. He led the organisation until the Arrow...

  4. Wilhelm, Károly (1886 - 1951)

    Lawyer, Jewish community leader, member of the First, Second and Third Jewish Council. After graduation, he worked for the Budapest Stock Exchange and various large industrial companies. In 1941 he was appointed member of the governing committee (választmány) of the Neologue Pest Israelite Congregation. In 1944, as member of President Samu Stern’s inner circle, he belonged to the Jewish Council’s informal leadership. After the war he became director-in-chief of the Hungarian Sugar Industry Trust. In 1948 he left Hungary and settled in Switzerland, where he died in 1951.

  5. Szegő, Miklós (1884 - 1945)

    Jewish community leader, member of the Fourth Jewish Council. He was vice president, and as of 1939, president of the Neologue Székesfehérvár Israelite Congregation (Székesfehérvári Izraelita Hitközség). On January 15, 1945 he was murdered by Arrow Cross militiamen in Budapest.

  6. Pető, Ernő (1882 - 1960s)

    Lawyer, Jewish community leader, member of the First, Second and Third Jewish Council. He trained as a lawyer in Budapest and worked as an attorney. He was involved in the community work of the Pest Israelite Congregation, of which he was appointed vice president in 1941. In 1944, as a member of President Samu Stern’s inner circle, he belonged to the Jewish Council’s informal leadership. In 1955 he emigrated to Brazil, where he died in the 1960s.

  7. Munkácsi, Ernő (1896 - 1950)

    Lawyer, publicist, legal scholar, high-ranking official of Jewish Council. He worked for the Pest Israelite Congregation from the early 1920s, first as a secretary (titkár), then as legal representative (ügyész), later as chief secretary (főtitkár). Between 1934 and 1942 he was head of the Hungarian Jewish Museum (Magyar Zsidó Múzeum). After the war he became the Executive Director (ügyvezető igazgató) of the National Office of Hungarian Israelites.

  8. Stöckler, Lajos (1897 - 1960)

    Industrialist, member of the Third and Fourth Jewish Councils. During the Szálasi regime, he became de facto head of the Council and one of the leaders of the “large” ghetto of Budapest. After the war, he became President of the Pest Israelite Congregation and the National Office of Hungarian Israelites. In 1950, Stöckler was appointed head of the National Representation of Hungarian Israelites (Magyar Izraeliták Országos Képviselete), the unified organisation of Hungarian Jewish communities forcefully set up by the communist regime. In January 1953, he was arrested on fabricated charges of...

  9. Kahan-Frankl, Samu (1890 - 1970)

    Orthodox rabbi, head of the Central Office of the Autonomous Orthodox Israelite Denomination of Hungary, and member of the First and Second Jewish Council. In the summer of 1944, he resigned from his position and went into hiding. After the war he became the head of the national Orthodox organisation again. He left Hungary in 1950 – first emigrating to Israel, then to the US.

  10. Freudiger, Fülöp (Pinchas) (1900 - 1976)

    Factory owner, member of the First and Second Jewish Councils. As of 1939, he was president of the Budapest Autonomous Orthodox Israelite Congregation. In early August 1944 he escaped with his family to Romania. After the war he lived in Israel where he testified at the Eichmann trial in 1961.

  11. Domonkos, Miksa (1890 - 1954)

    Engineer, head of the Central Jewish Council’s Technical Department from April 1944, head of the Ghetto Police and one of the leaders of the “large” ghetto in Budapest during the Arrow Cross era. Domonkos was a World War I veteran and captain of the Hungarian army in the interwar period. Between 1945 and 1950 he became chief secretary (főtitkár) of the Pest Israelite Congregation. In 1953 he was arrested by the communist regime on fabricated charges. Although he was released at the end of 1953 he died within months as a result of the torture he endured in prison.

  12. Berend, Béla (1911 - 1987)

    Chief Rabbi of Szigetvár and member of the Second, Third and Fourth Jewish Councils. He was suspected of being an informant for the government. In 1946 he was sentenced to ten years in prison for collaborating with the Hungarian authorities during the Holocaust, but acquitted on appeal in 1947. In 1948, Berend emigrated to the United States where he changed his name to Albert B. Belton.

  13. Εβραϊκή Κοινότητα Καβάλας

    • Jewish Community of Kavala
    • Evraiki Koinotita Kavalas

  14. Εσδράς Μωυσής

    • Esdras Moisis

  15. Αλίκη Αρούχ

    • Aliki Arouh

  16. Ilan Karmi

  17. Υπηρεσία Διαχείρισης Ισραηλιτικών Περιουσιών

    • Central Agency for the Custody of Jewish Property
    • Ypiresia Diacheirisis Israilitikon Periousion

  18. Baky László

    • Baky, Laszlo
    • Baky, László 1898-1946

    13/09/1898

    29/03/1946

    Hungarian gendarme officer and politician. In 1941 he was one of the founders of the Hungarian National Socialist Party. During the Sztójay Cabinet in 1944 he was political state secretary of the Ministry of the Interior, and as such he was in charge of the police and the gendarmerie. He was directly responsible for the deportation of the Hungarian Jews. He was charged with war crimes and executed in 1946.

  19. Komoly Ottó

    1892

    1945

    Architect, Zionist leader. During the Holocaust, Komoly was among the most prominent Hungarian Jewish leaders to participate in rescuing the Jews of Hungary. Zionist organisations established the so-called Relief and Rescue Committee of Budapest (Budapesti Segélyező és Mentőbizottság or Va‘adat ‘Ezrah ve-Hatsalah) in 1942. Komoly, as president of this organisation, smuggled Jews across the border, assisted refugees in Hungary, and made preparations for the self-defence of the Jewish community. Komoly’s rescue action of Jewish children was his most successful achievement. He worked in this a...

  20. Εβραϊκό Μουσείο Θεσσαλονίκης

    • Jewish Museum of Thessaloniki
    • Evraiko Mouseio Thessalonikis