Records of the Municipal Committee of Pest-Pilis-Solt-Kiskun County, 1876-1949

The collection holds all the minutes of the meetings of the Municipal Assembly and the Small Assembly of the Municipal Committee of Pest-Pilis-Solt-Kiskun County between 1876 and 1944. Holocaust-related records are scattered throughout the collection and include but not limited to the following issues: trade permits, lease agreements and other financial transactions, permits and small offences concerning the right to sell alcohol; regulations concerning prices and leases, procurement involving Jewish businesses, matters of temporary and permanent financial aid for Israelite schools and Jewish communities, regulations concerning registers of births, marriages and deaths, establishment of Jewish associations, permanent and temporary financial support of various Jewish schools and institutions, residential permits and naturalisation of Jews, various cases pertaining to factories, shops, inns, workshops and other enterprises owned by Jews, promulgation of diplomas/degrees of Jewish lawyers, engineers, medical doctors and veterinarians, lists of largest taxpayers, lawsuits and other legal matters, the implementation of the “Jewish laws” and instances of bureaucratic antisemitic measures, including the withdrawal of trade licences and permits, quitting rental agreements of Jews, exclusion of Jews from the municipal committees and social organisations, registration and expropriation of Jewish landholdings; administrative procedures against Jewish communities; activities of the national socialists and other extreme right-wing movements, antisemitic events and atrocities, hate speech and propaganda, political speeches and proposals concerning the „Jewish question”.

The records of the Municipal Committee of Pest-Pilis-Solt-Kiskun County were arranged into provenance subgroups numbered 403/a. to 403/d. The minutes are arranged chronologically, and by the number of items (individual cases). The numbers of cases are re-started each year.