Landeszman-gyűjtemény

The Landeszman collection includes miscellaneous Holocaust-related documents from 1944-45 and the postwar period, such as documents of individual labor servicemen, letters and requests of the Central Jewish Council from the year 1944, daily demands various Hungarian and German authorities sent to the Central Jewish Council, requesting the delivery of various objects or the provision of various services, notes on the organization of ghetto life, documents regarding the ghettoization and deportation of Jews of Kiskunhalas and Sopron, reports from countryside ghettos from May 1944, list of prominent members of various Jewish communities, some eyewitness accounts on collection camps, documents of Budapest ghetto authorities from late 1944, lists on the confiscation of Jewish apartments and their executors, list of the social department’s employees, letters from death marches, lists of missing persons, protective documents (Schutzpässe) as well as invitation cards to commemorating the victims of the Holocaust from various localities shortly after the war. The collection also contains miscellaneous documents of József Pásztor, high-ranking official of various Jewish aid organizations from 1942-1943 and 1945-1949, including his correspondence, reports and proposals on Jewish aid activity from the war years, on the one hand, and notes, surveys, reports, correspondence on the aid of the survivors and the reconstruction of the Jewish communities from shortly after the end of the war, on the other. Furthermore, there are various documents from the time of the beginnings of general legal discrimination in Hungary. These include the catalogue of the 1938 exhibition commemorating the 19th century emancipation of the Jews in Hungary organized by the National Jewish Museum of Hungary and also the call of the Office of Hungarian Israelites and the Pest Jewish community to the Jewish population about their recommended ("appropriate") behavior. Last but not least, the Landeszman collection contains miscellaneous documents of the Office for the Support of Hungarian Israelites from the years 1939 to 1942, including its regulations, reports, accounts, correspondence and proposals regarding its aid activity.