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Holding Institution: Magyar Nemzeti Levéltár Országos Levéltára
  1. Vichy-i követség iratai, 1940-1944

    • Records of the Hungarian Embassy in Vichy, 1940-1944

    With the defeat of France in 1940 and the signing of the armistice, the so called French State with its capital in Vichy emerged. The Hungarian state appointed an Ambassador to this nominally sovereign entity in unoccupied France. Its Embassy processed hundreds of cases which are part of this collection. Most of these cases concern questions of citizenship and passport-related requests. There are documents concerning visa and travel requests, requests to return to Hungary but also certificates of birth, marriage and change of religion. Other documents concern cases of the arrest, internment...

  2. Zsidók anyagi és vagyonjogi ügyeinek megoldására kinevezett kormánybiztosság iratai

    • Records of the Government Commissioner’s Office for Solving the Material and Financial Affairs of the Jews

    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 while it was also planned as a state-directed and -controlled process. In June 1944, a Government Commissioner’s Office for Solving the Material and Financial Affairs of the Jews was newly established. As of July 23, Albert Turvölgyi, who until then served ...

  3. Кozma Miklós iratai (1897-1941)

    • Papers of Miklós Kozma (1897-1941)

    Miklós Kozma (1884-1941), director of Magyar Távirati Iroda (the Hungarian News Agency, MTI), Minister of the Interior, Governor of Kárpátalja. Kozma served as an army general during the First World War and began his public career as a member of the National Counterrevolutionary Army of 1919. He was the Head of Department for National Defense and Propaganda at the Supreme Commander and later served as the rapporteur for military affairs at the Military Office of the Regent. In 1920, Kozma was appointed head of the semi-official Bureau of the News Agency (even though the News Agency was oper...