• Records of the Cabinet of the Foreign Minister (1918-1944)

• Magyar Nemzeti Levéltár Országos Levéltára
• MNL OL K 58
• English
• 1918-1944
• 39 fasc., 16 vols., 6,26 linear metres
• Updated 10 years ago

The Cabinet of the Hungarian Foreign Ministry was responsible for presenting matters of foreign policy to the Council of Ministers as well as addressing internal matters that concerned the Foreign Minister as a member of the government. The Cabinet also prepared laws proposed in Parliament that belonged to the realm of foreign policy, parliamentary inquiries and ministerial decisions. The Cabinet also arranged meetings of foreigners with the Regent who did not have diplomatic status in Budapest. Last but not least, the Cabinet served as the secretariat of the Ministry.

• 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 10 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...

• Records of the Presidential Department, Foreign MInistry

• Magyar Nemzeti Levéltár Országos Levéltára
• MNL OL K 59-61
• English
• 1918-1944
• Updated 10 years ago

Circular 15226 from 1919 established the scope of action for the Presidential Department of the Foreign Ministry. This scope consisted of setting the agenda and centrally administering the Ministry, organizing the diplomatic representation, employing the personnel of Hungarian foreign policy, assuring the acquisition of proper offices abroad as well as equiping and maintaining them, organizing foreign policy training related exams, preparing the etiquette for diplomats and consuls active in Hungary, deciding upon their rank and accommodation and, last but not least, taking care of letters o...

• Records of the Department of Economic Policy, Foreign Ministry

• Magyar Nemzeti Levéltár Országos Levéltára
• MNL OL K 69
• English
• 1918-1944
• 824 fasc., 233 vols., 141,715 linear metres
• Updated 10 years ago

When it was established in 1919, the Department of Economic Policy of the Foreign Ministry dealt with issues of economic policy, meaning primarily the peace negotiations, issues related to the peace treaty as well as international economic contracts, as well as issues of international transport and of financial and social policy. In the years of the inter-war period, the exact administrative relations between the administering of these issues underwent numerous changes. The collection contains a large corpus of documents that belong to three basic categories. The first one contains the docu...

• General and Confidential Records of the Foreign Ministry, Political Department

• Magyar Nemzeti Levéltár Országos Levéltára
• MNL OL K 63-64
• English
• 1918-1944
• K 63: 477 fasc., 66 vols., 68,86 linear metres K 64: 101 fasc., 11 vols., 15,05 linear metres
• Updated 10 years ago

The study of the Political Deparment of the Foreign Ministry with its general and confidential parts enables a grasp of the development of independent Hungarian diplomacy after the disintegration of Austria-Hungary, the guiding ideas and leading actions of foreign policy, and the evolution of the relationship between Hungary and other countries. The Political Department was responsible for the practical implementation of foreign policy plans. The collection contains selected records relating to Hungarian foreign relations and policies, many of which are relevant for the study of the history...

• Records of the Press and Cultural Department, Foreign Ministry

• Magyar Nemzeti Levéltár Országos Levéltára
• MNL OL K 66
• English
• 1918-1944
• 4 boxes, 658 fasc., 67 vols., 98,21 linear metres
• Updated 10 years ago

The collection documenting the activities of the Press and Cultural Department of the Foreign Ministry has three major parts: first, there are records of the distribution of Hungarian press organs abroad, reviews of foreign press, information bureaus and radio-related matters, second, there are records of the distribution of foreign press organs in Hungary, their permits, and papers on connections to foreign journalists, and third, there are documents on the internal matters of the department(s).

• Records of the Hungarian Film Office

• Magyar Nemzeti Levéltár Országos Levéltára
• MNL OL K 675
• English
• 1924-1950
• 6 boxes, 449 fasc., 81 vols., 68,43 linear metres
• Updated 10 years ago

The Hungarian Film Office was a branch of the Magyar Távirati Iroda (the Hungarian News Agency). The Film Office was primarily responsible for producing the weekly reports titled Hungarian News and the Hungária 16 mm films. It had a department of photography too, which provided periodicals with photos of current events and the main sites of the country. It also had a department of advertisement, which produced commercials for the movie theaters. The collection contains information on the operation of the film office such as minutes of its meetings on various levels or its budgets and turnov...

• The News of the Hungarian Reporter (1924-1944)

• Magyar Nemzeti Levéltár Országos Levéltára
• MNL OL K 612
• English
• 1924-1944
• 331 vols., 11,7 linear metres
• Updated 10 years ago

The Hungarian Reporter (Magyar Országos Tudósító) was a subsidiary of the Hungarian News Agency. The lithograph it circulated was titled MOT and belonged among the most important semi-official news services in the country. It was based on information gathered at the Mayor’s Office, in the Sherrif’s Office of Pest County, at the State Police, in the major Courthouses, etc. Moreover, MOT included news items from leading political parties, vartious professional chambers, academic and literary institutions as well as the Protestant Churches (but not those of the Catholic Church in Hungary). The...

• 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...

• Records of Compensation in Hungary, 1946-1998

• Magyar Nemzeti Levéltár Országos Levéltára
• MNL OL XIX-20-L-o
• English
• 1946-1998
• 62 microfilm reels
• Updated 10 years ago

The records on compensation programs that were implemented to help Hungarian survivors of the Holocaust are from the years 1946 to 1998 with the bulk of the materials concerning 1957 to 1975, the main period of compensation programs run by West Germany when agencies and individuals in communist Hungary would already be among their recipients. The various documents in the collection include notes and minutes, circulars and internal exchanges of relevant official Hungarian bodies. There are also the documents that supported Hungarian and Hungarian Jewish claims, including individual claim she...

1. O.23 - Gilbert Collection: Documentation written by senior Nazi war criminals in detention during the Nuremberg Trials

• Hans. M. Frank: Adolf Hitler

• ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
• 3726992
• English, Hebrew
• 1946
• Handwritten, original 1093 pages/frames
• Updated 6 years ago

Memoirs of Hans Frank regarding his encounters with Hitler, written in the Nuremberg prison, 1945-1946 - Recollections of his first encounters with Nazism in the Freikorps Epp in1919, and with Hitler in 1920; - Description of the antisemitic roots of the Nazi movement; - Description of the November Putsch in Munich, 1923; - Work as Hitler's personal legal adviser after 1926, and later as legal adviser for the NSDAP; - Service as head of the Reichsrechtsamt der NSDAP from 1930, with Hitler's protection, and from 1933, service as the head of the National Socialist Jurists Association and Pres...

1. O.23 - Gilbert Collection: Documentation written by senior Nazi war criminals in detention during the Nuremberg Trials

• Hans Frank: Adolf Hitler

• ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
• 3726995
• English, Hebrew
• 1946
• Typewritten original 558 pages/frames
• Updated 6 years ago

Memoirs of Hans Frank regarding his encounters with Hitler, written in the Nuremberg prison, 1945-1946 - Recollections of his first encounters with Nazism in the Freikorps Epp in1919, and with Hitler in 1920; - Description of the antisemitic roots of the Nazi movement; - Description of the November Putsch in Munich, 1923; - Work as Hitler's personal legal adviser after 1926, and later as legal adviser for the NSDAP; - Service as head of the Reichsrechtsamt der NSDAP from 1930, with Hitler's protection, and from 1933, service as the head of the National Socialist Jurists Association and Pres...

1. O.23 - Gilbert Collection: Documentation written by senior Nazi war criminals in detention during the Nuremberg Trials

• ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
• 3727004
• English, Hebrew
• 1945-1946
• Handwritten, original 227 pages/frames
• Updated 6 years ago

Memoirs of his imprisonment in England by Rudolf Hess An extensive description of Hess' imprisonment in British jails: how his jailers allegedly tried to poison him with "brain poison", and claims of a world-wide Jewish conspiracy against him and against Germany. The essay was written in his Nuremberg prison cell, in the form of a diary, at the request of Dr. G.M. Gilbert, the prison psychologist.

1. O.23 - Gilbert Collection: Documentation written by senior Nazi war criminals in detention during the Nuremberg Trials

• ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
• 3727005
• English, Hebrew
• 1945-1946
• Typewritten original 93 pages/frames
• Updated 6 years ago

Memoirs of his imprisonment in England by Rudolf Hess An extensive description of Hess' imprisonment in British jails: how his jailers allegedly tried to poison him with "brain poison", and claims of a world-wide Jewish conspiracy against him and against Germany. The essay was written in his Nuremberg prison cell, in the form of a diary, at the request of Dr. G.M. Gilbert, the prison psychologist.

• 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 10 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...

1. O.23 - Gilbert Collection: Documentation written by senior Nazi war criminals in detention during the Nuremberg Trials

• Miscellaneous Hess notes

• ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
• 3727007
• English, Hebrew
• 1945-1946
• Handwritten, original Typewritten original 153 pages/frames
• Updated 6 years ago

Miscellaneous notes and observations by Rudolf Hess Various fragmental notes including his ideas regarding a separate peace treaty between Great Britain and Germany, political and historical musings, notes about a conspiracy to poison him, notes for his defense before the International Military Tribunal, lists of books, newspaper clippings, and some notes by Dr. G.M. Gilbert, the prison psychologist, regarding the treatment of Hess.

• ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
• O.91
• English
• Updated 1 decade ago

The Mordechai Friedman Collection is comprised mainly of copies of documents Friedman gathered from American archives (Jewish and public) that served him in the course of the preparation of his doctoral thesis and his various studies in the context of the reaction of American Jewry to the Holocaust of the European Jews.

• 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 10 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...

1. O.23 - Gilbert Collection: Documentation written by senior Nazi war criminals in detention during the Nuremberg Trials

• ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
• 3726994
• English, Hebrew
• 1945-1946
• Handwritten, original 36 pages/frames
• Updated 6 years ago

Notes for an essay by Rudolf Hess regarding his imprisonment in England Description of Hess' imprisonment in British jails: how his jailers allegedly poisoned him, and claims of a world-wide Jewish conspiracy against him and against Germany.

• Records of the Arrow-Cross Ministry of Foreign Affairs

• Magyar Nemzeti Levéltár Országos Levéltára
• MNL OL K 707
• English
• 1944-1945
• 3 fasc., 1 vols., 0,38 linear metres
• Updated 10 years ago

A main but failed ambition of the Arrow Cross government of Hungary that acquired power through a German-backed putsch in mid-October 1944 was to gain diplomatic recognition. Even though the Arrow Cross government pursued a pro-German policy in the war, its ambition to acquire international recognition influenced a number of its policy choices and this included the treatment of Hungary's remaining Jewish population. Hungarian Jews were murdered in thousands in Budapest and tens of thousands of them were forced on deadly marched westwards but they who were no longer systematically deported a...