This sub-series contains miscellaneous administrative and financial documents of the Jewish Council. These include documents of the Council’s relations with the Hungarian and German authorities: records of the financial and material demands of the Sondereinsatzkommando Eichmann as well as its Hungarian counterparts, the State Security Surveillance; petitions of the Jewish Council to the Hungarian government; and correspondence with various Hungarian military authorities regarding labor service. The group of documents also contains records pertaining to the Council’s information regarding the countryside deportations, such as reports of labor servicemen on the leave and correspondence with the leadership of countryside communities. The material also holds: notes, report, memoranda and inner correspondence of the Council’s various departments, organizations and agencies as well as name lists of employees; correspondence of the Council’s leadership with various Jewish individuals regarding their complaints and requests. Further noteworthy elements of this sub-series include: documents on the Budapest ghettoization process in November-December 1944; various financial documents (invoices, receipts, cash registries, financial reports) relating to the operations of the Council (healthcare, food supply, organization of ghettoization, etc.); a Hungarian translation of the so-called Auschwitz Protocol; various registry books (iktatóköny) of the Council and the press clipping collection compiled by the Information Office of the Council. The notable documents include, for example: • letter of the Jewish Council to an unidentified minister (probably the Minister of the Interior) on the whereabouts of the deported Jews (August 1, 1944) • request of the Jewish Council to the International Red Cross to gather information on the internment camps of Hungary (August 24, 1944) • handwritten list of Jews protected by the Swiss, Swedish and Portuguese embassies; correspondence of high-ranking official of the Social Department of the Central Jewish Council József Pásztor with various individuals (Zionist leader Ottó Komoly, member of the Jewish Council Ernő Boda) and authorities and bodies (German commander of the Bácstopolya internment camp, Swiss embassy) on various subjects (the activity of the Social Department, on the fate of Jewish individuals, on the conditions in the interment camps) • letter of one unidentified individual to another from the Szeklence collecting camp (May 4, 1944) • documents of various Budapest ghetto authorities (reports on the ghettoization process in November-December, 1944, lists of dates of meetings of various committees of the Central Jewish Council) • letter of Endre Fisch to József Pásztor from the so-called death march (November 1944) • letter of high-ranking official of the Social Department of the Jewish Council István Földes on sending the protective document issued for Pásztor • József Pásztor’s note on the aid activity • report of an unidentified individual on the countryside deportations (May 18, 1944) • minutes of the September 15 meeting of the Central Jewish Council • note of Zsigmond László on the organization of the prospective ghetto life (May 4, 1944) • reports from countryside ghettos of Balassagyarmat, Borszék, Ditró, Galánta, Győr, Huszt, Kál, Kassa, Keszthely, Mátészalka, Nagykanizsa, Nyíregyháza, Pécsvárad, Segesvár, Szarvas, Szatmárnémeti, Tapolca, Tardoskedd, Tiszafüred, Zalalövő (May 15-17) • report on the account of two exempted Jews regarding the Kecskemét brick factory (June 16, 1944) • eyewitness report on the Harangodpuszta, Simapuszta and Nyírjespuszta collection camps (May 25, 1944) • report on the deportation of the Iza Jews (May 21, 1944); • József Pásztor’s documents on his exempt status from labor service (October 22-23) • list of prominent members of various Jewish communities (Máramarossziget, Mátészalka, Beregszász, Sátoraljaújhely, Nagyszőlős, Nyíregyháza, Ungvár, Huszt, Kisvárda, Kassa, Munkács) • list of so-called yellow star houses in district III of Budapest • name list of Jewish Council employees participating in the compulsory confiscation of Jewish apartments • certification issued by József Pásztor on the indispensability of head of the *Housing Department of the Central Jewish Council Rezső Müller (July 1944) • name list of the staff of the soup kitchen at 13 Wesselényi Street • addition to the list of the Social Department’s employees who are to be provided a certificate on their status • daily demands of various Hungarian (State Security Surveillance) and German authorities (Sondereinsatzkommando Eichmann, office of the Höhere SS und Polizeiführer, office of the Befehlshaber der SIPO und des SD, Sonderstab SS FHA) to the Central Jewish Council for delivering various objects and services: demand no. 632 (June 14), 643 (June 25), 681 (June 19), 726 (June 24), 727 (June 27), 728 (June 29), 729 (June 21), 730 (June 23), 731 (June 23), 732 (June 23), 733 (no date), 734 (June 30), 735 (June 25), 736 (June 29), 737 (June 28), 738 (June 30), 739 (June 30), 740 (June 23), 741 (June 27), 742 (June 1), 743 (July 3), 744 (June 17), 745 (June 15), 746 (June 19), 747 (June 24), 748 (July 1), 750 (July 4), 752 (July 4), 753 (July 5), 754 (July 3), 755 (July 6), 756 (July 6), 757 (July 6), 757 (July 6), 758 (July 5), 759 (July 5), 760 (July 6), 761 (July 8), 762 (July 8), 763 (July 8), 764 (July 7), 768 (July 8), 769 (July 9), 770 (July 8), 771 (July 7), 772 (July 10), 773 (July 11), 774 (July 11), 775 (July 6), 776 (July 11), 777 (July 12), 778 (July 12), 779 (July 13), 780 (July 13), 782 (July 14), 783 (July 14), 784 (July 14), 785 (July 17), 786 (July 15), 787 (July 15), 788 (July 17), 789 (July 17), 790 (July 16), 792 (July 18), 793 (July 18), 794 (July 18), 795 (July 18), 796 (July 17), 797 (no date), 798 (July 18), 799 (July 18) • certificate issued for Artúr Székely by the Housing Department of the Central Jewish Council and the ghetto police proving that Székely is the commander of one of the ghetto police districts (January 9, 1945) • report of the leader of the auxiliary hospital at 37 Wesselényi Street on the raid of German soldiers on the night of December 30 (December 30, 1944); map of the so-called international ghetto (no date, probably November 1944); • registry book (iktatókönyv) of the Central Jewish Council (April 7 – November 2, 1944) The book consists of 6214 entries and gives an in-depth insight into the daily operation of the Council. All incoming and many outgoing correspondence between April 7 and October 13, 1944 is recorded. (After October 15, i.e., the Arrow Cross takeover, there are only three entries in the registry book. All three are from November 2.) The sections of each entry are as follows: registry number of the file (ügydarab); date of arrival; name and address of the sender; subject matter of the case; person or department in the Council’s structure to whom the case was assigned; notes • daily notes of the Central Jewish Council • Data sheets on the countryside ghettos divided arranged by counties (1944). The sheet contains information on the following: location of ghetto, number of inhabitants, catering, hospital, medication, nature of the ghetto (closed or open), Jewish Council, mail-packages (is it possible to send). The sheets contain information on the following counties/territories and ghettos: Abaúj-Torna (Kassa), Barcs (Léva), Bereg (Beregszász), Munkács (Beszterce-Naszód), Bihar (Nagyvárad), Borsod (Miskolc), Háromszék (Sepsiszentgyörgy), Heves (Gyöngyös, Eger, Egercsehi), Kolozs (Kolozsvár), Hajdu (Debrecen), Máramaros (Huszt, Máramarossziget, Iza, Szeklence, Técső, Bárdfalva, Nagybánya), Maros-Torda (Marosvásárhely), Nyitra-Pozsony (Érsekújvár), Szabolcs (Kisvárda, Nyíregyháza), Szatmár (Mátészalka, Szatmárnémeti, Nagykároly), Szolnok-Doboka (Dés), Ugocsa (Nagyszőlős), Ung (Ungvár), Vas (Sárvár), Zala (Nagykanizsa), Zemplén (Sátoraljaújhely) • notes of the Central Jewish Council on the ghettoization and deportation of Jews from the countryside • reports of labor servicemen on the leave about the deportations from the countryside • correspondence with the countryside communities on the interpretation of Prime Minister’s Decree 1600/1944 • letters of the Central Jewish Council to Prime Minister Döme Sztójay, to Minister of the Interior Miklós Bonczos and to Minister of Religion and Education Iván Rakovszky • correspondence of the Central Jewish Council with the police captain of Szatmárnémeti • documents of the Central Jewish Council’s attempt to trace certain deported individuals • news clippings collected by the Information Office of the Central Jewish Council: Magyarság, Új Magyarság, Függetlenség, Nemzeti Újság, Összetartás, Harc, Hétfő Reggel, Pest, Magyar Szó, Új Nemzedék, Pesti Hírlap, Deutsche Zeitung, Pester Lloyd (May – June 1944) • lists created by the Central Jewish Council containing the name of those employees of the different departments and community institutions (e.g, the official journal /Magyarországi Zsidók Lapja/, the Rabbinical Seminary, orphanage, convalescent home, Jewish Museum, Orthodox community) for whom the Council requires free movement conducts (szabad mozgási igazolvány) from the German and Hungarian authorities (August 1944) • registry book of the post office of the Central Jewish Council • letter of the Council to the Hajdúnánás Jewish Council on information about the Jews deported from Hajdúnánás (May 26, 1944) • blank summons issued by the Council • letter of the Council for the Ministry of the Interior on the ghettoized Jewish physicians (May 26, 1944) • letter from the Council to the Hajdúnánás Jewish Council requiring information on the local community (April 6, 1944) • letter of the Council to Regent Miklós Horthy (July 8, 1944) • letter of the Food Supply Department of the Council on the food tickets; Minister of the Interior’s Decree no. 176.774/1944 VII. b. appointing the new members of the Jewish Council with the original signature of State Secretary of the Ministry of the Interior László Endre • documents on the Budapest ghettoization process (November-December, 1944): letters, map of the ghetto, list of names of the owners of the apartments requisitioned by the Housing Department of the Central Jewish Council, lists of tenants, tenant-moving orders; etc. • documents created by the Jewish Council on the investigation regarding the panic that broke out among the patients of the Jewish community hospital located in 2 Bethlen Square, Budapest on the 24 of August (August-September 1944) • declaration of the Hungarian Police on the status of the Páva, Magdolna and Szabolcs Street internment camps (July 19, 1944); etc. • correspondence between the Jewish Council and an Austrian individual on the Hungarian deportees in Austria (August-September 1944) • miscellaneous documents of the Directing Committee of the Rabbinical Seminary of Budapest (1944) • financial documents of the Central Jewish Council (May – June 1944): lists of expenses, invoices, acknowledgements of receipts, of various costs covered by the Central Jewish Council, including transportation, supply and other expenses in connection with the demands of the Sondereinsatzkommando Eichmann and the State Security Surveillance (Állambiztonsági Rendészet, a.k.a. the “Hungarian Gestapo”) • lists and summaries regarding the sums spent while satisfying the request of the Hungarian and German authorities as well as while implementing the anti-Jewish decrees • lists of items delivered by the Central Jewish Council to the Hungarian (predominantly the State Security Surveillance) and the German authorities (predominantly the Sondereinsatzkommando Eichmann) in May 1944 • lists of items and sums used during the implementation of the anti-Jewish decrees and the German authorities’ orders in March-May 1944 • list of employees of the Audit Office of the Pest Jewish Community; summary of the salaries paid to the employees of the Central Jewish Council and the Pest Jewish Community • summary of salaries paid to the laborers working at the Budapest headquarters of the Sondereinsatzkommando Eichmann and the State Security Surveillance • internal notes of the Audit Office regarding the sums paid to various purposes; correspondence of the Central Jewish Council and architect Alfréd Tausz regarding the walling up of the Dohány Street synagogue’s outer arcades • circular letter of the Central Jewish Council to the inmates of the so-called yellow star houses in Budapest regarding the “desirable” behavior of Jews (no date, probably June-September 1944) • cash receipts of income and expense of the Financial Department of the Pest Jewish Community • letter of the Audit Office of the Pest Jewish Community to the Transportation Department regarding the aid provided by the Central Jewish Council to converts • report on the cash circulation of the Food Supply Depot of the Central Jewish Council • list of typewriters loaned to the Red Cross and various departments of the Central Jewish Council • expense receipts of various costs occurred during the implementation of the anti-Jewish decrees and the orders of the German authorities • letters of head of the Housing Department of the Central Jewish Council Rezső Müller to the Audit Office and to the Financial Office of the Pest Jewish Community regarding various matters, including the repair works demanded by police officer Pál Ubrizsy to be performed in his apartment • letter of the officials of the Pest Jewish Community and the Central Jewish Council regarding their request for various benefits (e.g., exemption from the anti-Jewish regulations) • appeal of the Central Jewish Council to Minister of the Interior Andor Jaross requesting an extension on the deadline for the completion of the concentration of the Budapest Jews in the so-called yellow star houses (June 16, 1944) • list of employees of the Central Office (Központi Iroda) of the Pest Jewish Community • notes of the Department for the Liquidation of the Central Jewish Council to the finances of the Pest Jewish Community regarding the assets of the Tiszaföldvár Chevra Kadisha disbanded by the Hungarian authorities; documents regarding the reports of the Technical Department of the Jewish Council regarding the workforce claims of the occupying German authorities • questionnaires of the survey implemented by the Central Jewish Council upon the order of the occupying German authorities regarding the financial, demographic and institutional situation of the Jewish communities in Hungary. The material contains the questionnaires and letters of the following communities: Zemplénagárd; Bilke; Ilosva; Lőrinci; Bocsárlapujtő; Abaújkér; Forró; Nagyida; Balatonfüred; Nyergesujfalu; Mezőbánd; Havaskő; Bustyaháza; Alistál; Ada; Zombor • correspondence of the National Office of Hungarian Israelites and the Jewish Council on the special taxation issues of countryside Jewish communities that are inaccessible, including the list of 82 communities (May 31, 1944) • letter of the leadership of the Jewish Council to the Social Department ordering the Department to take over the insitutions of the “Ahávász Réim” National Brotherly Charity Organization that was disbanded by the Hungarian authorities (July 6, 1944) • inventory book of an unidentified soup kitchen, probably in the Budapest “large” ghetto (December 1944) • correspondence of the Jewish Council, the Veteran Committee of the National Israelite Offices, the National Jewish Aid Action and various Jewish communities (Nagykároly, Fertőszentmiklós, Beled, Fülöpszállás, Dunaszerdahely, Sajószentpéter, Vác, Hajdúböszörmény, Diósgyőr, Rajka, Párkány, Sopron, Esztergom, Szekszárd, Pest) regarding the special taxation, including the documents of the National Office of Hungarian Israelites on the distribution of the special taxation among the communities