• 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 10 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...

• Wiener Holocaust Library
• WL1163
• English
• 1939-1948
• 2 folders
• Updated 2 years ago

These papers document, in part, the activities of Czech exiles in London during the war and the situation in Czechoslovakia in the immediate post war years. The papers include correspondence between Alfred Pavel Peres and the president of Czechoslovakia, Eduard Benes.

1. Nachlässe
2. Liebmann, Curt

• Institut für Zeitgeschichte–Archiv
• ED 1 / 1
• German
• 1922-1959
• Updated 10 years ago

Aufzeichnungen der Befehlshaberbesprechungen, 1-5, 7-54, 59, 61-64, 68-69, 73-79, 83-98, 100-150, vergleiche die Markierungen im Repertorium; Schreiben Liebmann an Vogelsang (Institut für Zeitgeschichte), 28. August 1958 / 361-262, vergleiche die Markierung im Repertorium; persönliche Erinnerungen 1938-1939: erste und letzte Seite des handschriftlichen Originals in Kopie und Abschrift / 384 und 414, 415-442, vergleiche die Markierungen im Repertorium.

• 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 10 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: Kálmán Darányi

• Magyar Nemzeti Levéltár Országos Levéltára
• MNL OL K 34
• English
• 1930-1936
• 1 fasc., 0,14 linear metres
• Updated 10 years ago

Kálmán Darányi (1886-1939) was a politician who served as Minister of Agriculture and later as Prime Minister of Hungary (1936-1938), replacing the deceased Gyula Gömbös. In March 1938, the program of Győr, a massive program of military and infrastructural development, was initiated under his premiership. The program was conceived by Béla Imrédy, Minister of Economic Coordination who was to become his immediate successor. At first pursuing balancing acts, Darányi clearly shifted to the right in the latter parts of his premiership. He was to initiate the First Anti-Jewish Law that was eventu...

• Personal Files of Prime Ministers and other governmental officials: Gyula Gömbös

• Magyar Nemzeti Levéltár Országos Levéltára
• MNL OL K 35
• English
• 1922-1936
• 1 fasc., 0,16 linear metres
• Updated 10 years ago

Gyula Gömbös (1886-1936) was a politician and soldier, member of the Hungarian Parliament, Minister of Defense (1929-1932) and eventually Prime Minister of Hungary (1932-1936). During the 1920s, Gömbös oscillated between the governing party led by Prime Minister István Bethlen and a more radical race protectionist platform. Upon becoming Prime Minister, Gömbös announced a wideranging plan of reorganization with the aim of establishing a more modern and rightist authoritarian state, opposing the more liberally oriented conservative elite in particular. He reformed the army by giving posts to...

• Records of the Ministry of Justice

• Magyar Nemzeti Levéltár Országos Levéltára
• MNL OL K 577-579
• English
• 1938-1945
• 202 boxes, 626 fasc., 8 vols., 112,05 linear metres
• Updated 10 years ago

The collection contains the documents of the central organs of the Ministry of Justice from 1867 till 1944, however, a highly significant part of the collection was destroyed by fire in 1956. The Hungarian Ministry of Justice had the main supervisory role over Hungarian courts, prosecutors, notaries, chambers of lawyers and their personnel, prisons and cases related to youth. The Ministry also played an important part in the preparation of laws and inheritance cases. Due to the aforementioned fire, only fragments of the original materials remain and many topics would prove practically unres...

• Personal Files of Prime Ministers and other governmental officials: Béla Imrédy

• Magyar Nemzeti Levéltár Országos Levéltára
• MNL OL K 36
• English
• 1938-1939
• 1 fasc., 0,04 linear metres
• Updated 10 years ago

Béla Imrédy (1890-1946), Director of the Hungarian National Bank, Minister of Finance, Minister of Economic Coordination and subsequently Prime Minister of Hungary between 1938 and 1939. The first anti-Jewish law was adopted during his premiership. He initiated the Second Anti-Jewish Law in late 1938 that was meant to further limit the socioeconomic opportunities of Hungarian Jews and aimed to reduce Jewish involvement to a mere 6%. The law was eventually to be adopted under his successor Pál Teleki. In 1940, Imrédy left the governing party to launch his radical rightist party Party of Hung...

• 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 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 10 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 ...

• 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 10 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...

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

• Magyar Nemzeti Levéltár Országos Levéltára
• MNL OL K 149
• English
• 1938-1944
• 327 boxes, 49 vols., 41,7 linear metres
• Updated 10 years ago

MOL K 149 PTI contains monthly police reports for more than sixty cities; Intelligence on rightists (e.g., Arrow Cross) and leftists (e.g., Social-Democrats and Communists); various nationalities (Ruthenians, Germans, Slovaks, and others); religious sects (e.g., Jehovah’s Witnesses); and Jews, including refugees from Slovakia; Secret reports on public opinion generally and among suspect groups in particular about political, military, and economic affairs.

• Ministry of Labour and Social Welfare - repatriation, Prague
• Ministerium für Arbeit und soziale Wohlfahrt - Repatriierung, Prag
• MPSP-R

• Národní archiv
• 1146
• English
• 1938-1951
• 441,62 linear metres from which 441,5 linear metres of documents are processed and inventoried and 0,12 linear metres are unprocessed. The fonds is partially accessible.
• Updated 9 years ago

The fonds contains important documents about refugees, immigration and emigration issues and about the repatriation and reemigration between 1938 and 1950/1. There are documents from each section of the Institute for the Care of Refugees (1938) (socio-medical, evacuation and financial section) i and also from the Institute for the Care of relocated people (functioning from 1940) in the fonds. The most valuable documents are deposited in boxes 16-895, there is an administrative agenda of emigration - applications for the emigration, further more applications for transports. There are card fi...

• Ministry of Justice, Prague
• MS

• Národní archiv
• 832
• English
• 1918-1953
• 299,5 linear metres of documents from which 299,5 linear metres are processed and inventoried and 8,5 linear metres are unprocessed. The fonds is partially accessible.
• Updated 6 years ago

In the fonds, there are documents and records from the legislative council, public prosecutors and judicial administration department. There are also files containing reports from the criminal department and the prison department. The jewish related documents are in several boxes concerning more the matter of antisemitism in the Czechoslovak republic in the thirties than the matter of holocaust. In the boxes there can be found complaints on Jewish notaries and layers and also their requests for granting permission to work in law practice. There are also lists (dated between years 1919-1945)...

• Ministry of Interior I., Prague
• NAD 1075

• Národní archiv
• 1075
• English
• 1918-1948
• The fonds consists out of 2147 linear meters of processed and inventoried documents. 214 linear meters are unprocessed and inaccessible.
• Updated 9 years ago

Documents of this fonds illustrate the broad scope of the agenda of the Ministry of Interior. It included, apart from the security and administrative matters, also minority and language issues, citizenship, population register, press and censorship issues, and also the agenda of the then non-existing Ministry of Social Welfare. The most valuable documents can be found mainly in the presidial part the fonds, where the events of the period can be studied from the situation reports of district and provincial authorities. Documents relating to the history of the Holocaust can mainly be found in...

• 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...

• City Committee of Sarajevo

• Historijski arhiv Sarajevo
• GNO-106
• English
• 1945-1955
• 840 boxes, 350 books
• Updated 6 years ago

Sarajevo, as a city and separate political and territorial unit became a separate government unit in 1945. City's People Liberation Committee was formed on 19th of April 1945 and operated until 21st of July 1945, shortly after the end of World War II in Europe (May 1945), when it was reformed and renamed to City's People Committee. The documentation deals with Sarajevo's five districts and has information about last stages of World War II and its aftermath and consequences.

1. Staatliche und parteiamtliche Akten bis 1945
2. Deutsches Reich (bis 1945)
3. NSDAP und angeschlossene Verbände
4. Reichsleitung
5. Hauptarchiv der NSDAP

• Institut für Zeitgeschichte–Archiv
• MA 747 / 1
• German
• 1754-1943
• Updated 10 years ago

I. NSDAP/ Hauptarchiv: Phönix Transportgesellschaft Marktredwitz, Dezember 1910-1913 (Dezember 1934): Verträge, Berichte, Gutachten betreffend Anwerbung und Transport von Auswanderern aus Deutschland, Österreich-Ungarn, Errichtung Transitlager in Marktredwitz und Organisation des Transatlantikverkehrs, circa 310 Bl.; II. NSDAP/ Hauptarchiv: Personalakten des Polizeipräsidiums Berlin, September 1926-April 1942: Biographische Angaben, Strafregister, Beurteilungen, Berichte über Hess, Schacht, Helldorff, Reventlow, Kube und Andere, Auszug aus Reden O. Strassers; Konkurs des nationalsozialistis...

• Records of the Arrow Cross Ministry of Internal Affairs, 1944-1945

• Magyar Nemzeti Levéltár Országos Levéltára
• MNL OL K 775
• English
• 1944-1945
• 6 fasc., 0,8 linear metres
• Updated 10 years ago

The Arrow Cross Ministry of the Interior was headed by Gábor Vajna (1891-1946) who was a soldier, politician and member of Parliament after 1939. Vajna belonged among the Hungarians who were in close contact with the German occupiers after March 19, 1944, including those who were implementing the Holocaust. As Minister of the Interior in the government of Szálasi, Vajna was responsible for the attempted reorganization of the Hungarian state along dictatorial-totalitarian lines. He agreed to German requests to provide altogether around 75 000 Hungarian Jewish slave laborers for the German wa...

• Records of the Arrow Cross Ministry of Justice (Szombathely)

• Magyar Nemzeti Levéltár Országos Levéltára
• MNL OL K 800
• English
• 1945
• 1 box, 1 fasc., 1 booklet, 0,3 linear metres
• Updated 10 years ago

Due to the advancement of the Red Army in the battle for Hungary and its approaching of Budapest, the Arrow Cross Ministry of Justice was moved to Szombathely in Western Hungary in the second half of November 1944 and had its seat at the main Courthouse of the town. The Ministry was in operation in Szombathely until the end of March but could rely only on a reduced number of its staff there. The papers of the relocated Hungarian Ministry of Justice from 1944 were presumably destroyed. The remaining papers that are to be found in this collection at the Hungarian National Archive are from the...