Magyar Nemzeti Levéltár Országos Levéltára

• Records of the Central National Authority for Controlling Foreigners, General Records, 1931-1944

• Magyar Nemzeti Levéltár Országos Levéltára
• MNL OL K 492
• English
• 1931-1944
• 20 fasc., 6 boxes, 2,95 linear metres
• Updated 9 years ago

KEOKH records are relevant for the study of anti-Semitic radicalization and the Holocaust in Hungary for two chief reasons: it typically suspected foreigners and its reports on the raid it held tend to list the number of Jews concerned and expelled. In certain cases, so called Ostjuden are mentioned separately in these reports. Second, in 1941, KEOKH initiated and implemented the deportation of Jews from Hungary who could not prove their citizenship to newly occupied Galicia. This Hungarian anti-Jewish action eventually led to the first Nazi mass murder with over 10 000 victims. The collect...

• Centre of State Security Presidential Records, 1942–1944

• Magyar Nemzeti Levéltár Országos Levéltára
• MNL OL K 494
• English
• 1 fascicle, 0,03 linear metres
• Updated 9 years ago

The survived records of the Centre of State Security mostly contain investigative files, including the cases of corruption, bribery, embezzlement, fraud, falsification of documents, black marketeering, trafficking and other violations of economic laws. A significant part of the suspects of these cases were Jews trying to circumvent the regulations of the anti-Jewish laws, or to escape internment, ghettoization and deportation in 1944, as well as non-Jews who helped or cooperated with them. The Presidential Records also include letters of denunciation against Communists and Jews, including b...

• Centre of State Security Classified Records, 1942–1944

• Magyar Nemzeti Levéltár Országos Levéltára
• MNL OL K 519
• English
• 1942-1944
• 1 fascicle, 0,02 linear metres
• Updated 9 years ago

The survived records of the Centre of State Security mostly contain investigative files, including the cases of corruption, bribery, embezzlement, fraud, falsification of documents, black marketeering, trafficking and other violations of economic laws. A significant part of the suspects of these cases were Jews trying to circumvent the regulations of the anti-Jewish laws, or were trying to escape internment, ghettoization and deportation in 1944, as well as non-Jews who helped or cooperated with them. The classified (confidential) records of the Center mostly include the investigative files...

• Centre of State Security General Records, 1942–1944

• Magyar Nemzeti Levéltár Országos Levéltára
• MNL OL K 523
• English
• 1942-1944
• 5 fascicles, 0,69 linear metres
• Updated 9 years ago

The survived records of the Centre of State Security mostly contain investigative files, including the cases of corruption, bribery, embezzlement, fraud, falsification of documents, black marketeering, trafficking and other violations of economic laws. A significant part of the suspects of these cases were Jews trying to circumvent the regulations of the anti-Jewish laws, or were trying to escape internment, ghettoization and deportation in 1944, as well as non-Jews who helped or cooperated with them. Besides, the general records of the Center contain plenty of information about the large s...

• Centre of State Security Presidential Records, 1942–1944

• Magyar Nemzeti Levéltár Országos Levéltára
• MNL OL K494
• English
• 1942-1944
• 1 fascicle, 0,03 linear metres
• Updated 9 years ago

The survived records of the Centre of State Security mostly contain investigative files, including the cases of corruption, bribery, embezzlement, fraud, falsification of documents, black marketeering, trafficking and other violations of economic laws. A significant part of the suspects of these cases were Jews trying to circumvent the regulations of the anti-Jewish laws, or to escape internment, ghettoization and deportation in 1944, as well as non-Jews who helped or cooperated with them. The Presidential Records also include letters of denunciation against Communists and Jews, including b...

• The Hungarist Journal, 1944-1945

• Magyar Nemzeti Levéltár Országos Levéltára
• MNL OL K 750
• English
• 1944-1945
• Vols. 8., 0,22 linear metres
• Updated 9 years ago

The collection holds the records of the activities and ideas of Ferenc Szálasi and his Arrow Cross Party from the origins of the movement in the 1930s until October, 1944, when the party assumed power. The material includes the pamphlets, speeches and other writings of Szálasi and other leaders and ideologues of the party, including Gábor Vajna, Emil Kovarcz, Gábor Kemény, Sándor Csia and Jenő Szőllősi, and Vilmos Kőfaragó-Gyelnik, notes on the history of the party, minutes of political meetings, circulars, flyers and other propaganda material, interviews and reports, bibliography and vario...

• Arrow Cross Party, 1932–1945

• Magyar Nemzeti Levéltár Országos Levéltára
• MNL OL P 1351
• English
• 1932-1945
• 52 boxes, 7,06 linear metres
• Updated 7 years ago

The first part of the collection (Boxes1-3) contains the survived records of the Hungarian National Socialist Party and its successor, the Arrow Cross Party, mostly from the war years. The material includes the documents of party administration (registered as well as unregistered fragments), cashier’s and registry books, regulations, orders, circulars and other internal correspondence, an undated brief history of the party, programs and flyers of the Hungarian National Socialist Party and various extreme right wing splinter groups, speeches, studies and other publications of party leader Fe...

• Prime Minister’s Office Department of Nationalities and Minorities

• Magyar Nemzeti Levéltár Országos Levéltára
• MNL OL K 28
• English
• 1923-1944
• 276 fasc., 13 vols., 39,41 linear metres
• Updated 9 years ago

The most relevant part of the collection is thematic unit no. 222. entitled “Jewish matters” It contains records pertaining to anti-Jewish laws and decrees in Hungary and in foreign countries, as well as various types of documents on Jewish organizations, religious affairs and property issues. Besides, the collection includes other Jewish-related parts: Unit 13 contains files concerning the Anschluss (annexation of Austria to the Nazi Empire) in March 1938, including the cases of Hungarian-Austrian bilateral agreements and the complaints and other matters of Hungarian citizens in connection...

• Semi-official Records of the Regent

• Magyar Nemzeti Levéltár Országos Levéltára
• MNL OL K 589
• English
• 1919-1944
• 9 fasc., 1 vols., 1,29 linear metres
• Updated 9 years ago

The collection holds the semi-official diplomatic records as well as private and family documents of Miklós Horthy, the Regent of Hungary between 1919 and 1944. The collection is divided into two main thematic groups: Records related to Internal Affairs and Foreign Affairs (I-II.) Files with relevance to the history of Hungarian Jews and the Holocaust include the letters of Prime Ministers Bethlen, Gömbös, Teleki and Bárdossy to Horthy (I.B), memorandum of the policy of the Imrédy government (I.C), various pro memoriae and letters on political parties and problems (I.D) and letters and prop...

• Records of the Hungarian Embassy in Stockholm, 1920-1945

• Magyar Nemzeti Levéltár Országos Levéltára
• MNL OL K 101
• English
• 1920-1945
• 60 fasc., 67 vols., 10,67 linear metres
• Updated 9 years ago

Records of the Hungarian Embassy in Stockholm, the capital city of neutral Sweden contain considerable material concerning Hungarian Jews from 1938 to 1944, from the era of anti-Jewish laws and the Holocaust. Relevant parts of the collection include in large quantities citizenship cases, inheritance-related cases, there are birth and divorce certificates, visa-related documents of Hungarian Jews emigrated to Sweden. In this collection there are records about different cases of pertaining to Hungarian Jews: documents about visa falsification, withdrawal of citizenship, refugees, request for ...

• Records of the Hungarian Agency at the League of Nations and the Consulate General in Geneva, 1920-1945

• Magyar Nemzeti Levéltár Országos Levéltára
• MNL OL K 107
• English
• 1920-1945
• 139 fasc., 62 vols., 21,4 linear metres
• Updated 9 years ago

Records of the Hungarian Agency at the League of Nations and its successor (from 1939), the Hungarian Consulate in Geneva, Switzerland, contain material concerning Hungarian Jews from 1920 to 1939. The overwhelming majority of the records are from 1938 and 1939. The most relevant parts of the collection include various reports concerning the “Jewish question”, Zionism and the Palestine problem between 1930 and 1939, comprehensive political reports, and general documents pertaining to Hungarian Jews, such as demographical statistics and charts, the memorandum of Foreign Minister Kálmán Kánya...

• Records of the Hungarian Consulate General in Amsterdam, 1924-1945

• Magyar Nemzeti Levéltár Országos Levéltára
• MNL OL K 109
• English
• 1924-1945
• 32 fasc., 21 vols., 4,86 linear metres
• Updated 9 years ago

Records of the Hungarian Consulate General in Amsterdam, the capital city of Netherlands contain considerable material concerning Hungarian Jews, especially from the period 1938 to 1944, the era of anti-Jewish laws in Hungary and the Nazi occupation and the Holocaust in the Netherlands. Relevant parts of the collection include in large quantities citizenship cases and visa-related documents of the Hungarian Jews residing in the Netherlands. After the German occupation in May 1940, Jews were subjected to various anti-Jewish measures. In this context different types of records can be found in...

• Records of the Hungarian Consulate in Graz, 1928-1945

• Magyar Nemzeti Levéltár Országos Levéltára
• MNL OL K 119
• English
• 1928-1945
• 63 fasc., 17 vols., 10,04 linear metres
• Updated 9 years ago

Records of the Hungarian Consulate in Graz, the capital of the federal Austrian state of Styria contain considerable material concerning Hungarian Jews, especially from the months following the annexation of Austria by Nazi Germany in March 1938. The bulk of the material documents the efforts of Hungarian authorities to secure the assets of the Hungarian Jews living in Nazi-occupied Austria. These records include various registries and reports concerning the property of the Hungarian Jews in Styria, documents on German-Hungarian negotiations on the wealth of Hungarian Jews and other anti-Je...

• National Council of People’s Courts, 1945-1950

• Magyar Nemzeti Levéltár Országos Levéltára
• MNL OL XX-4
• English
• 1945-1950
• 171 boxes, 20 vols., 21,52 linear metres
• Updated 9 years ago

Documents of the People’s Courts are among the most significant sources pertaining to the interwar and wartime history of Hungary as well as the Holocaust. The materials include trials against former prime ministers, several ministers, undersecretaties of state and other protagonists of the anti-Jewish policies as well as the direct perpetrators of murders and other atrocities against labour servicemen and Jewish civilians, trials against members of the Arrow Cross, the Volksbund, gendarmerie and various other pro-Nazi organizations and institutions, journalists, informants, beneficiaries o...

• Foreign Ministry Records of the Legal Department, 1918-1945

• Magyar Nemzeti Levéltár Országos Levéltára
• MNL OL K 70
• English
• 1918-1945
• 372 fasc., 115 vols., 59,74 linear metres
• Updated 9 years ago

The records in the collection from 1919-1923 are organized by date and topics. The most relevant topics from this period include internment, expulsion and passport issues and name change cases. The localization of Jewish-related cases requires item-level investigation. This part of the material also includes a fascicle containing complaints, petitions and reports concerning atrocities committed by the troops and paramilitary forces of Miklós Horthy’s National Army in 1919 (Fasc. 13.) The material from the years 1924-1945 is organized by countries. The most relevant part of the collection is...

• Lower House of Parliament and National Assembly, 1861-1944: Presidential and General Records

• Magyar Nemzeti Levéltár Országos Levéltára
• MNL OL K 2
• English
• 1867-1945
• 716 fasc., 1 box, 437 vols., 125,1 linear metres
• Updated 9 years ago

The Lower House of the Hungarian Parliament was a centrally important stage for debates about the political behaviour, socioeconomic position and legal status of Jews in the late 1930s and early 1940s. The Hungarian Parliament was responsible for worsening anti-Semitic legislation in these years that gradually withdrew Jewish emancipation. The opinion that gained the upper hand in the parliamentary debates viewed Jews as a group opposed to the interests Hungariandom and was to define Jewry as a racial entity. The laws enacted gravely restricted the opportunities of Jewish citizens and incre...

• Records of the Regent’s Cabinet Office

• Magyar Nemzeti Levéltár Országos Levéltára
• MNL OL K 588
• English
• 1919-1944
• K 588: 4 fasc., 2 vols., 0,57 linear metres
• Updated 9 years ago

In 1920, in order to facilitate the administrative work of the Regent of Hungary, new offices were established called the Cabinet Office, the Military Office and the Economic Office though the last of the three was soon merged into the Cabinet Office. A tiny fraction of their documents survived and many of the other materials of the Office of the Head of State was also destroyed. For the Cabinet Office, practically the only remaining documents are from the years 1945-46 and concern economic matters (K 588). The scope of these economic affairs was rather restricted as it concerned the salary...

• 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 9 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 Prime Minister’s Office (1867-1945)

• Magyar Nemzeti Levéltár Országos Levéltára
• MNL OL K 26
• English
• 1867-1945
• 1406 fasc., 216 vols., 212,74 linear metres
• Updated 9 years ago

A whole row of Hungarian Prime Ministers and their offices have played notable roles in the history of anti-Semitism and the persecution of the Jews during the 1930s and 1940s. In Hungary, anti-Semitic initiatives, including anti-Semitic legislation, was often launched and even more often supported at this level. In 1944, following the entry of Nazi Germany into Hungary, it was the newly appointed government headed by Prime Minister Döme Sztójay that actively collaborated with the German Sonderkommando in the implementation of the mass deportations to Auschwitz-Birkenau. The Records of the ...

• Protocols of the Council of Ministers

• Magyar Nemzeti Levéltár Országos Levéltára
• MNL OL K 27
• English
• 1910-1944
• 145 fasc., 17 vols., 21,9 linear metres
• Updated 5 years ago

The Council of Ministers was the most important executive authority in Hungary before and during the Holocaust. It was composed of Ministers who could be substituted by leading Ministry officials. It was presided by the Head of State (Regent Horthy until 1944) or, in his absence, the Prime Minister. The Council of Ministers tended to hold its sessions once a week but occasionally more often than that. After 1920, proposals were pre-circulated, the Ministers only added their remarks at the meetings and debates could ensue. The Council of Ministers, originally established in the year of the A...