Records of Hungarian banks and insurance companies (MOL Z)

Identifier
irn47080
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2011.168
  • RG-39.038M
Dates
1 Jan 1936 - 31 Dec 1950
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Hungarian
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn47080

Extent and Medium

29,149 digital images, JPEG

8 microfilm reels (digitized), 16 mm

Creator(s)

  • Biztosító Intézetek Országos Szövetsége
  • Magyar Földhitelintézet
  • Els? Általános Biztosító Társaság
  • Fonciére Általános Biztosító Intézetek

Archival History

Magyar Országos Levéltár

Acquisition

Forms part of the Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. This archive consists of documentation whose reproduction and/or acquisition was made possible with funding from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.

Source of acquisition is the Magyar Országos Levéltár, MOL (Hungarian National Archives), Files Z 121, Z 889, Z 1403, Z 169, Z 163, Z 170, Z 171-172, Z 1260. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum received the filmed collection via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum International Archival Programs Division in 2011.

Scope and Content

Selected records of Hungarian banks and insurance companies: how they implemented anti-Jewish regulations during the Horthy regime, personnel practices, confiscation of assets, responses to claims of Jewish customers. Postwar files focus on claims filed by customers whose assets were seized or employees who had lost their jobs.

System of Arrangement

The system of arrangement of the source repository has been preserved in the microfilmed reels. Arranged by subjects of various record group, MOL Z, and alphabetically by a name of individuals claiming for compensation.

Conditions Governing Reproduction

Copyright Holder: Magyar Országos Levéltár

People

  • Horthy, Miklós, nagybányai, 1868-1957--Relations with Jews.

Subjects

  • World War, 1939-1945--Confiscations and contributions--Hungary.
  • Restitution and indemnification claims (1933-)--Registers.
  • Hungary--Politics and government--1945-1949.
  • Banks and banking--Records and correspondence--Government policy--Hungary--20th century.
  • Jews--Hungary--Claims--Registers.
  • Hungary--Ethnic relations.
  • Holocaust survivors--Hungary--Registers.
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Hungary--Sources.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Claims--Germany (West)--History.
  • Reparations for historical injustices--Germany--History.

Genre

  • Questionnaires.
  • Registers.
  • Document
  • Indexes.
This description is derived directly from structured data provided to EHRI by a partner institution. This collection holding institution considers this description as an accurate reflection of the archival holdings to which it refers at the moment of data transfer.

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