• Personal Files of Prime Minister László Bárdossy

• Magyar Nemzeti Levéltár Országos Levéltára
• MNL OL K 38
• English
• 1942
• 1 fasc., 0,14 linear metres
• Updated 1 decade ago

László Bárdossy (1890-1946) was a diplomat, politician, foreign minister and then Prime Minister of Hungary between 1941 and 1942. He introduced the so called Third Anti-Jewish Law in 1941, which closely resembled the racial definitions of the Nuremberg Laws, banning marriage as well as sexual intercourse between Jews and non-Jews. The infamous massacre of Kamenets-Podolsk in 1941 took place during his time in office when the deportation initiated by Hungarian authorities led to the first Nazi mass murder with over 10 000 Jewish victims. Moreover, Hungary entered the war against Yugoslavia ...

• 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 1 decade 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 Central National Authority for Controlling Foreigners Presidential Records, 1936-1944

• Magyar Nemzeti Levéltár Országos Levéltára
• MNL OL K 490
• English
• 1936-1944
• 2 fasc., 0,2 linear metres
• Updated 1 decade 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...

• Records of the National Central Authority for Controlling Foreigners Classified Records, 1933-1944

• Magyar Nemzeti Levéltár Országos Levéltára
• MNL OL K 491
• English
• 1933-1944
• 3 fasc., 0,42 linear metres
• Updated 1 decade 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...

• 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 1 decade 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...

• Records of the Executive Office of the Hungarian Ministry of Internal Affairs, 1938-1944 [Presidential]

• Magyar Nemzeti Levéltár Országos Levéltára
• MNL OL K 148
• English
• 1938-1944
• 6 boxes, 1202 fasc., 406 vols., 196,77 linear metres
• Updated 1 decade ago

The collection consists of records handled by the Executive Office (Elnöki Osztály), which was the office of the Minister of Internal Affairs. These are the documents of parliamentary interpellations (e.g. by the Arrow-Cross MP Kálmán Hubay, or the anti-Nazi MP Endre Bajcsy-Zsilinszky) to the Minister, and his answers; reports to the Minister regarding the activities of Jewish individuals (e.g. the communist Endre Ságvári) and communities (e.g. the Jews of Békés county); issues concerning the citizenship of Jews, the 1941 round-up and deportation of the so called “stateless” Jews, the exemp...