• 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 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 9 years 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...

• The Arrow Cross Parliament, 1944-1945 (Sopron)

• Magyar Nemzeti Levéltár Országos Levéltára
• MNL OL K 7
• English
• 1944-1945
• 1 fasc., 1 vols., 0,053 linear metres
• Updated 9 years ago

After the botched attempt of Regent Miklós Horthy in mid-October 1944 to switch sides in the war, power in Hungary was taken over by the Arrow Cross who committed the country to the war effort on the side of Nazi Germany. The military situation deteriorated further for the Axis powers and by November the Arrow Cross leadership decided to move its seat westward from Budapest to the Hungarian-Austrian border area. The central offices of the leadership moved to Kőszeg while the sessions of the rump parliament were held in Sopron where they operated until March 1945. This collection contains do...

• Ferenc Rajniss papers, 1923-1945

• Magyar Nemzeti Levéltár Országos Levéltára
• MNL OL P 2210
• English
• 1923-1945
• 2 boxes, 0,2 linear metres
• Updated 9 years ago

This collection contains papers and records of Ferenc Rajniss (1893-1946) was an influential Hungarian extreme right-wing politician and journalist, editor of the weekly Új Magyarság and Magyar Futár, and a recognized expert on questions of social policy. Rajniss was elected a member of Parliament in 1935 as part of the governing party then under the leadership of Prime Minister Gyula Gömbös, represented the Nemzeti Front (the National Front), a national socialist formation in 1937, was a member of the Magyar Élet Pártja (the Hungarian Life Party) in 1939 to subsequently join Béla Imrédy's ...