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  1. A jogszolgáltatás területi szervei

    • The Territorial Bodies of Jurisprudence

    During the ever more drastic anti-Semitic turn of Hungary in the late years of the 1930s and the years of the Second World War, anti-Semitic radicalization has largely been a legalized process – even if a host of regulations that may not have been explicitly anti-Semitic were also applied to anti-Semitic effect (called bureaucratic anti-Semitism) and there were initiatives coming from lower levels that often violated the discriminatory laws in place (i.e. illegal anti-Semitism). Nevertheless, how exactly the Hungarian justice system functioned in these years and how it related to the escala...

  2. Sajtógyűjtemény

    • Press Clipping Collection

    The Hungarian Jewish Archives holds an extensive collection of press clippings. This collection consists of tens of thousands articles, reports, editorials, commentaries, interviews, essays, book reviews, poems. These items were originally published in over one hundred Hungarian and some international newspapers and journals between 1909 and 1948. They cover topics such as Hungarian and international politics of the interwar-period, extreme-right wing movements and parties, the “Jewish question” and anti-Semitism, “race protectionism”, anti-Jewish atrocities and legislation, fascist Italy, ...

  3. Hitközségi szervezet: Vidéki hitközségek

    • Jewish Community Organizations: Countryside communities

    This is a vast collection that contains miscellaneous documents that relate to the history of Hungarian Jewish communities both in the years before 1944 and after 1945 and document key aspects of the Holocaust in Hungary. The collection offers rich documentation on the history of the following Hungarian Jewish communities in the era of Nazism: Bácsalmás, Baja, Bonyhád, Csongrád, Dombóvár, Eger, Esztergom, Gyöngyös, Jászberény, Kalocsa, Kaposvár, Kisújszállás, Kőbánya, Marcali, Mezőkövesd, Miskolc, Nagykőrös, Sárbogárd, Sopron, Szarvas, Szeged, Szentes, Szigetvár, Tata, Vác. There are also s...

  4. Gradsko poglavarstvo Dubrovnik

    • The Dubrovnik City Authority Office
  5. Župska redarstvena oblast Karlovac

    • The county police authorities Karlovac
  6. Poglavarstvo grada Karlovca

    • The administration of the town of Karlovac
  7. Zbirka matičnih knjiga

    • Register (of births / deaths / marriages)
  8. Velika żupa Pokuplje Karlovac

    • The Greater County of the river Kupa region Karlovac
  9. The Mordechai Friedman Collection

    The Mordechai Friedman Collection is comprised mainly of copies of documents Friedman gathered from American archives (Jewish and public) that served him in the course of the preparation of his doctoral thesis and his various studies in the context of the reaction of American Jewry to the Holocaust of the European Jews.

  10. Općina Dubrovnik

    • The collection of Dubrovnik administration unit
  11. Kotarski sud u Dubrovniku

    • The Dubrovnik County Court
  12. The Relico Collection: Documentation of the Committee for Relief of the War-Stricken Jewish Population, World Jewish Congress, Geneva

    The Collection contains documentation regarding the activities of the Committee during the war as well as its post-war activities. In the Collection from the war period, there is correspondence between Committee members and Jews living under the German regime and correspondence with family members living in the free world and trying to help their Jewish relatives living under the German regime. In the letters sent from ghettos and camps there is information regarding the condition of the Jews. Sometimes these were the last letters of the Jews who perished afterwards. Included in the documen...

  13. Kaelter Collection: Documentation from the estate of David and Judith (Edith) Kaelter, residents of Germany, who emigrated to Eretz Israel in 1939

    The material includes: - Details regarding David and Judith Kaelter's families (File 1); - Personal documents belonging to David and Judith Kaelter and their families, including a few rabbis among their relatives (Files 2, 3, 7, 8, 10);- Documents regarding the professional activities of David Kaelter (File 4); - Testimony and memorial booklet regarding the Kristallnacht riots (File 5);- Memoirs and summaries written by David Kaelter regarding his life and the organizations and institutions in which he was active (File 6); - David Kaelter's professional activities as a teacher in Israel (Fi...

  14. Munich Municipality: Documentation regarding the treatment of the Jews, 1933-1942

    Documents dealing with the persecution of Jews during the Nazi period, mainly in Munich, but also in Frankfurt am Main, Ansbach and some of the other cities in Germany. The collection also contains the personal files of Jews from the Munich Welfare Department.

  15. The Testimony Collection gathered by the Central Historic Committee of the Liberated Jews in Munich, 1946-1948

    During the three years of its existence, the Central Historic Committee (CHC) gathered approximately 2,550 testimonies from Holocaust survivors from different countries within occupied Europe. The testimonies deal with the fate of the survivors in various countries during the Nazi occupation.

  16. The SS Members personal files from the Berlin Document Center

    This collection includes personal files of SS officers above the rank of Untersturmfuehrer has been kept at the BDC. In the files there is varied documentation, and in certain instances, the BDC personnel have added documentation regarding a specific officer from other collections in the BDC archive. A large number of files regarding the SS officers were created from questionnaires concerning the personality of the officer. In addition to general data, there is also psychological and medical information and information regarding the officer's outlook on life. In the SS personal files there ...

  17. Documentation of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee (JAF) in the Soviet Union

    Description of the collection : Official Committee documentation, testimonies of survivors, Red Army soldiers, underground members, lists of Jewish victims, notices and announcements, investigative reports against Nazi criminals, survey reports, letters, radio broadcasts, articles and photographs. There are three main collections in the records group:A. Documentation regarding the Holocaust from the"Black Book", including valuable testimonies, diaries and memoirs that were processed for literary presentation and others that were only published partially, testimonies and memoirs regarding th...

  18. Documentation of the Kulturbund der Juden in Deutschland (the Cultural Organization of German Jewry)

    This Record Group is the private archive of the director-actor Fritz Wisten, who was one of the organization activists. The documentation that arrived at Yad Vashem consists of photocopies of the original documentation in the archive, which is housed at the Stiftung Akademie der Kuenste Archive in Berlin. Most of the documentation in this Record Group is in German, dealing primarily with the Kulturbund activities after 1938. The Record group contains documentation of all the Kulturband activities:- Discussions with Hans Hinkel; - Organizational activities;- Surveys of organizational activit...

  19. Documentation of the Dachau concentration camp

    In the collection there is administrational documentation including a few files kept by the camp administration. In many of the files there are forms for payment and insurance of the inmates.In other files there is personal documentation such as passports and photographs of inmates as well as the central card index file of the camp inmates (along with a separate card index file of the Jews from Hungary who arrived at the camp). In the collection there is also personal documentation of citizens from various countries which has been entered in the files beginning with File No. 501 (these file...