• Collection of Statutes (1941-1944)

• Magyar Nemzeti Levéltár Országos Levéltára
• MNL OL K 273
• English
• 1941-1944
• 11 boxes, 1,32 linear metres
• Updated 9 years ago

The Collection of Statutes includes the statutes of a host of various associations, such as burial societies or pensioners clubs, for the years 1941 to 1944. It includes the statutes of Jewish associations operating in Hungary at this time as well. The collection is of special importance for the study of the process of anti-Semitic discrimination and exclusion, on the one hand, with question such as in what ways were attempts of Jewish self-organization restricted and under what conditions were Jewish associations allowed to continue to function. On the other, the statutes also reveal Jewis...

• 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 9 years 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 ...

• Personal Files of Prime Ministers and other governmental officials: Miklós Kállay

• Magyar Nemzeti Levéltár Országos Levéltára
• MNL OL K 39
• English
• 1942-1944
• 14 fasc., 1,96 linear metres
• Updated 9 years ago

Miklós Kállay (1887-1967), politician, Minister of Agriculture in the cabinet of Gyula Gömbös who then served as Prime Minister of Hungary between 1942 and 1944. Kállay belonged among the more moderate members of the establishment but largely kept the ministers who served under his predecessor Bárdossy in their positions. His premiership was characterized by a new Hungarian foreign policy aimed at the cautious distancing of the country from Nazi Germany and the initiation of negotiations with the Western Allies, especially Great Britain. Hungary refused to deport its large Jewish population...

• Records of the Hungarian Ministry of Internal Affairs, 1938-1944

• Magyar Nemzeti Levéltár Országos Levéltára
• MNL OL K 150
• English
• 1938-1944
• 4535 fasc., 1630 vols., 775,68 linear metres
• Updated 9 years ago

This collection contains documents regarding the implementation of anti-Jewish legislation in Hungary as well as instructions given to various levels of public administration regarding Jewish matters in the years of worsening anti-Semitic discrimination prior to the mass deportations. Other records document disciplinary actions taken in extra-judicial ways. Moreover, the collection includes information on the processing of passports, repatriations and grievances and has records on the policy adopted toward Hungarian citizens residing abroad and non-citizens residing in Hungary. MOL K 150 P ...

• The Hungarian Radio and Telephone News Agency, administrative documents

• Magyar Nemzeti Levéltár Országos Levéltára
• MNL OL K 613
• English
• 1924-1950
• 35 fasc., 74 vols., 8,86 linear metres
• Updated 9 years ago

The collection contains various documents of the Hungarian Radio and Telephone News Agency. The documents concern its general meetings, the activities of its executive committee, its directorate, the central administrative unit as well as of the screening committee that operated between 1945 and 1948. The collection also contains documents on the personnel of the Hungarian Radio and Telephone News public company, such as the personnel cards from 1939 when the anti-Semitic laws were being enforced, on its economic matters and also documents that were created during the editing of the radio s...