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Holding Institution: Magyar Nemzeti Levéltár Országos Levéltára

  1. Alapszabálygyűjtemény (1941-1944)

    • Collection of Statutes (1941-1944)

    The Collection of Statutes includes the statutes of a host of various associations, such as burial societies or pensioners clubs, for the years 1941 to 1944. It includes the statutes of Jewish associations operating in Hungary at this time as well. The collection is of special importance for the study of the process of anti-Semitic discrimination and exclusion, on the one hand, with question such as in what ways were attempts of Jewish self-organization restricted and under what conditions were Jewish associations allowed to continue to function. On the other, the statutes also reveal Jewis...

  2. Pénzügyminisztérium, Általános iratok (1867-1945)

    • Papers of the Ministry of Finance (1867-1945)

    The Holocaust was not only the largest genocidal operation in 20th century Hungarian history but also a gigantic campaign to systematically rob the wealth of Hungarian Jewry. In Hungary, the Europe-wide campaign of robbery usually referred to by the name of Aryanization had various initiators and a large segment of benefactors in society but it was planned as a state-directed and -controlled process with the Ministry of Finance playing a crucial role in it. Between 1938 and 1944, the Ministry was headed by Lajos Reményi-Schneller (1892-1946) who served as Minister of Finance under the succe...

  3. Körrendeletek (1867-1942)

    • Circular Decress (1867-1942)

    This collection includes circular decrees (körrendeletek) of the Ministry of Finance for the years 1867 to 1942. The last four to five years covered by the collection, i.e. the late 1930s and early 1940s, is relevant for the study of anti-Semitic radicalization in Hungary since the anti-Semitic policies of the times were initated not only by numerous major anti-Semitic laws adopted in Parliament but were also implemented through hundreds of decrees and such circulars from ministries with the Ministry of Finance playing a notable role. Circular decrees from those years may have had explicit ...

  4. Pénzügyminisztérium, Elnöki rezervált iratok (1871-1944)

    • Ministry of Finance, Classified Presidential Documents (1871-1944)

    The Holocaust was not only the largest genocidal operation in 20th century Hungarian history but also a gigantic campaign to systematically rob the wealth of Hungarian Jewry. In Hungary, the Europe-wide campaign of robbery usually referred to by the name of Aryanization had various initiators and a large segment of benefactors in society but it was planned as a state-directed and -controlled process with the Ministry of Finance playing a crucial role in it. Between 1938 and 1944, the Ministry was headed by Lajos Reményi-Schneller (1892-1946), i.e. he served as Minister under the successive ...

  5. Álorvosi iratok, 1964-1975

    • Cases of the Victims of Nazi Pseudo-Scientific Experiments, 1964-1975

    Nazi Germans conducted a series of medical experiments on large numbers of prisoners, mainly Jews from across Europe, but also on Romani people, ethnic Poles, Soviet prisoners of war and disabled non-Jewish Germans. These human experiments took place in concentration camps mainly in the early 1940s. Prisoners were coerced into these experiments that would often result in their death, or disfigurement or permanent disability of their bodies. Many deported Hungarian Jews fell victims to these infamous Nazi human experiments that were conducted, most notoriously, in the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp...

  6. Magyar Belügyminisztérium, Rezervált iratok, 1938-1944

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

    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.

  7. Magyar Belügyminisztérium, Elnöki iratok, 1938-1944

    • Records of the Executive Office of the Hungarian Ministry of Internal Affairs, 1938-1944 [Presidential]

    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...

  8. Igazságügyminisztériumi Levéltár

    • Records of the Ministry of Justice

    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...

  9. Magyarországi kárpótlási iratok, 1946-1998

    • Records of Compensation in Hungary, 1946-1998

    The records on compensation programs that were implemented to help Hungarian survivors of the Holocaust are from the years 1946 to 1998 with the bulk of the materials concerning 1957 to 1975, the main period of compensation programs run by West Germany when agencies and individuals in communist Hungary would already be among their recipients. The various documents in the collection include notes and minutes, circulars and internal exchanges of relevant official Hungarian bodies. There are also the documents that supported Hungarian and Hungarian Jewish claims, including individual claim she...

  10. Magyar Filmiroda Rt. iratai

    • Records of the Hungarian Film Office

    The Hungarian Film Office was a branch of the Magyar Távirati Iroda (the Hungarian News Agency). The Film Office was primarily responsible for producing the weekly reports titled Hungarian News and the Hungária 16 mm films. It had a department of photography too, which provided periodicals with photos of current events and the main sites of the country. It also had a department of advertisement, which produced commercials for the movie theaters. The collection contains information on the operation of the film office such as minutes of its meetings on various levels or its budgets and turnov...

  11. A náci és nyilas rémtettek kivizsgálására alakult bizottság

    • Committee for the Investigation of Nazi and Arrow Cross Atrocities

    The documentation of the Holocaust (avant la lettre) started in Hungary practically as soon as the war had ended and it took various major forms. Holocaust survivors played major roles in several of the attempts at early documentation such as the DEGOB interview project with thousands of camp survivors. The many trials that dealt with crimes committed against Hungarian Jews during the war years and the documentation project pursued by the Committee for the Investigation of Nazi and Arrow Cross Atrocities were among the most important Hungarian state-based forms of Holocaust documentation. W...

  12. Elhagyott Javak Kormánybiztosságának iratai

    • Records of the Government Commissariat for Abandoned Possessions

    The Government Commissariat for Abandoned Possessions was established by decree on March 11, 1945. Its aims were to aid those who were personally impacted by the destruction wrought by the war and the German occupation and lost their homes, wealth and basis of existence as well as to aid those who were deported and help their return. The Commissariat was also responsible for the supervision and maintainance of abandoned houses, landholdings, firms, flats and furniture. The possessions that were left behind without legal inheritors were used to compensate those who were deported. The Commiss...

  13. Hungarista napló, 1944-1945

    • The Hungarist Journal, 1944-1945

    The collection holds the records of the activities and ideas of Ferenc Szálasi and his Arrow Cross Party from the origins of the movement in the 1930s until October, 1944, when the party assumed power. The material includes the pamphlets, speeches and other writings of Szálasi and other leaders and ideologues of the party, including Gábor Vajna, Emil Kovarcz, Gábor Kemény, Sándor Csia and Jenő Szőllősi, and Vilmos Kőfaragó-Gyelnik, notes on the history of the party, minutes of political meetings, circulars, flyers and other propaganda material, interviews and reports, bibliography and vario...

  14. Államvédelmi Központ Elnöki iratok, 1942–1944

    • Centre of State Security Presidential Records, 1942–1944

    The survived records of the Centre of State Security mostly contain investigative files, including the cases of corruption, bribery, embezzlement, fraud, falsification of documents, black marketeering, trafficking and other violations of economic laws. A significant part of the suspects of these cases were Jews trying to circumvent the regulations of the anti-Jewish laws, or to escape internment, ghettoization and deportation in 1944, as well as non-Jews who helped or cooperated with them. The Presidential Records also include letters of denunciation against Communists and Jews, including b...

  15. Államvédelmi Központ Bizalmas iratok, 1942–1944

    • Centre of State Security Classified Records, 1942–1944

    The survived records of the Centre of State Security mostly contain investigative files, including the cases of corruption, bribery, embezzlement, fraud, falsification of documents, black marketeering, trafficking and other violations of economic laws. A significant part of the suspects of these cases were Jews trying to circumvent the regulations of the anti-Jewish laws, or were trying to escape internment, ghettoization and deportation in 1944, as well as non-Jews who helped or cooperated with them. The classified (confidential) records of the Center mostly include the investigative files...

  16. Államvédelmi Központ Elnöki iratok, 1942–1944

    • Centre of State Security Presidential Records, 1942–1944

    The survived records of the Centre of State Security mostly contain investigative files, including the cases of corruption, bribery, embezzlement, fraud, falsification of documents, black marketeering, trafficking and other violations of economic laws. A significant part of the suspects of these cases were Jews trying to circumvent the regulations of the anti-Jewish laws, or to escape internment, ghettoization and deportation in 1944, as well as non-Jews who helped or cooperated with them. The Presidential Records also include letters of denunciation against Communists and Jews, including b...

  17. Államvédelmi Központ Általános iratok, 1942–1944

    • Centre of State Security General Records, 1942–1944

    The survived records of the Centre of State Security mostly contain investigative files, including the cases of corruption, bribery, embezzlement, fraud, falsification of documents, black marketeering, trafficking and other violations of economic laws. A significant part of the suspects of these cases were Jews trying to circumvent the regulations of the anti-Jewish laws, or were trying to escape internment, ghettoization and deportation in 1944, as well as non-Jews who helped or cooperated with them. Besides, the general records of the Center contain plenty of information about the large s...

  18. Külföldieket Ellenőrző Országos Központi Hatóság, Általános iratok, 1931-1944

    • Records of the Central National Authority for Controlling Foreigners, General Records, 1931-1944

    KEOKH records are relevant for the study of anti-Semitic radicalization and the Holocaust in Hungary for two chief reasons: it typically suspected foreigners and its reports on the raid it held tend to list the number of Jews concerned and expelled. In certain cases, so called Ostjuden are mentioned separately in these reports. Second, in 1941, KEOKH initiated and implemented the deportation of Jews from Hungary who could not prove their citizenship to newly occupied Galicia. This Hungarian anti-Jewish action eventually led to the first Nazi mass murder with over 10 000 victims. The collect...

  19. Külföldieket Ellenőrző Országos Központi Hatóság Reservált iratok 1933-1944

    • Records of the National Central Authority for Controlling Foreigners Classified Records, 1933-1944

    KEOKH records are relevant for the study of anti-Semitic radicalization and the Holocaust in Hungary for two chief reasons: it typically suspected foreigners and its reports on the raid it held tend to list the number of Jews concerned and expelled. In certain cases, so called Ostjuden are mentioned separately in these reports. Second, in 1941, KEOKH initiated and implemented the deportation of Jews from Hungary who could not prove their citizenship to newly occupied Galicia. This Hungarian anti-Jewish action eventually led to the first Nazi mass murder with over 10 000 victims. The collect...

  20. Külföldieket Ellenőrző Országos Központi Hatóság Elnöki iratok, 1936-1944

    • Records of the Central National Authority for Controlling Foreigners Presidential Records, 1936-1944

    KEOKH records are relevant for the study of anti-Semitic radicalization and the Holocaust in Hungary for two chief reasons: it typically suspected foreigners and its reports on the raid it held tend to list the number of Jews concerned and expelled. In certain cases, so called Ostjuden are mentioned separately in these reports. Second, in 1941, KEOKH initiated and implemented the deportation of Jews from Hungary who could not prove their citizenship to newly occupied Galicia. This Hungarian anti-Jewish action eventually led to the first Nazi mass murder with over 10 000 victims. The collect...