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Country: Hungary

  1. 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 ...

  2. Pesti Izraelita Hitközség iratai (Segélyprogramok)

    • Documents of the Pest Jewish Community (Aid Programs)

    In Hungary, anti-Jewish legal discrimination became increasingly severe during the late 1930s and early 1940s. The Jewish community responded to the hardship its members experienced by organizing aid programs through various channels. The Jewish community of Pest was by far the largest and wealthiest of the Jewish communities of Hungary and, accordingly, it played a leading role in these initiatives. This collection contains, first of all, documents of the Országos Magyar Zsidó Segítő Akció (the National Hungarian Jewish Aid Action) from the years 1938 to 1945. They include essential docume...

  3. Porrajmos - Recollections of Roma Holocaust survivers

    • Porrajmos - Roma Holocaust túlélők emlékeznek

  4. Rajniss Ferenc iratai, 1923-1945

    • Ferenc Rajniss papers, 1923-1945

    This collection contains papers and records of Ferenc Rajniss (1893-1946) was an influential Hungarian extreme right-wing politician and journalist, editor of the weekly Új Magyarság and Magyar Futár, and a recognized expert on questions of social policy. Rajniss was elected a member of Parliament in 1935 as part of the governing party then under the leadership of Prime Minister Gyula Gömbös, represented the Nemzeti Front (the National Front), a national socialist formation in 1937, was a member of the Magyar Élet Pártja (the Hungarian Life Party) in 1939 to subsequently join Béla Imrédy's ...

  5. Records of László Endre, 1911-1945

    • Endre László iratai, 1911-1945

    The collection contains the private records of László Endre, one of the most influential extreme right wing politicians in modern-era Hungary and one of the key perpetrators of the Holocaust. The most relevant part of the collection is his private correspondence (XIV.2.a.) with several dramatis personae of the interwar and World War II history of Hungary, many of those played roles in antisemitic and nationalistic policies, Jewish laws and the Holocaust, as well as thousands of persons representing the “Christian conservative” ruling and middle class of Hungary. The collection also holds le...

  6. Records of the Administrative Committee of Pest-Pilis-Solt-Kiskun County, 1876-1944

    • Pest-Pilis-Solt-Kiskun Vármegye Közigazgatási Bizottságának iratai 1876-1944

    The collection holds the records of the Administrative Committee of Pest-Pilis-Solt-Kiskun County and its several subcommittees, including minutes of the committee meetings and administrative records. The minutes and the general records contain plenty of information about various aspects of economic life, including taxation and finances, trade licenses and permits, and matters of petty offences, as well as on justice, passports, public education matters, including the matters of Jewish schools, orphans and guardianship, health care, infrastructure and many other matters. The Administrative ...

  7. Records of the Balassagyarmat Representative of the Government Commissary for Abandoned Property

    • Elhagyott Javak Kormánybiztossága Balassagyarmati megbízottjának iratai

    The collection holds records pertaining to real estate and moveable property abandoned between the German occupation of Hungary on March 19, 1944, and the end of the war on Hungarian territory in the middle of April, 1945. The overwhelming majority of the material deals with the property of deported Jews or former labour servicemen. The records include, but not limited to the following types of documents: petitions and requests submitted by Jewish organizations and Jewish individuals for social aid, material support and financial restitution; petitions of owners of factories and other firms...

  8. Records of the Budapest District of the Royal Hungarian Financial Directorate, 1863-1944

    • Budapestvidéki M. Kir. Pénzügyigazgatóság iratai, 1863-1944

    Between 1938 and 1944, financial directorates played a crucial role in the state-controlled campaign to systematically seize the assets of Hungarian Jews. The most relevant part of the collection is the Records of the Presidential Department No I., 1896-1944 (VI.101.c.), which is divided into three major sections (A-C): General Records, Declarations on the assets of citizens considered Jewish, 1944 and Inventories of Jewish property, 1944. Pre-1944 files are of fragmented nature. However, the 1944 records contain detailed information on the state sequestration and inventory of Jewish proper...

  9. Records of the Central Endorsement Committee No.1-2 of Pest-Pilis-Solt-Kiskun County, 1945-1947

    • Pest Vármegye I.-II. sz. Központi Igazoló Bizottságának iratai, 1945-1947

    The collection holds the survived records of the Endorsement Committees established after the end of World War II in Pest-Pilis-Solt-Kiskun County. Endorsement procedures were initiated against employees of municipal and state administration, military and law enforcement officers and intellectuals, including lawyers, teachers, physicians and pharmacists. The material provides specific insight into various aspects of the political, social and economic life in Pest-Pilis-Solt –Kiskun County. It contains plenty of information on antisemitic policies and incidents, the implementation of Jewish ...

  10. Records of the Chief Constable of the Eger District, 1895-1955

    • Egri járás főszolgabírájának iratai, 1895-1955

    The majority of the records of the Eger administrative district from the period 1938-1945 were lost or destroyed. The relevant parts that remained include mobilization records of 1939-1944, holding documents on Jewish military labour service, registration and internment of Jews, utilization of Jewish apartments for military purposes (1939-1944), records on the social support and aid of returning deportees (1947), records of military care (post-1945) as well as registries and lists of permits of tradesmen and merchants in alphabetical order of localities and persons between 1895-1955.

  11. Records of the Chief Constable of the Gyöngyös District, 1884-1951

    • Gyöngyösi járás főszolgabírájának iratai, 1884-1951

    The majority of the records of the Gyöngyös administrative district from the period 1938-1945 were lost or destroyed. The relevant parts that remained include administrative records of 1938-1944, including documents on the supervision and activities of extreme right-wing political parties and organizations in the localities of the district, nationalization and distribution of Jewish landholdings, as well as registries and lists of permits of tradesmen and merchants in alphabetical order of localities and persons between 1884-1951.

  12. Records of the Chief Constable of the Tiszafüred District, 1893-1944

    • Tiszafüredi járás főszolgabírájának iratai, 1893-1944

    The majority of the records of the Tiszafüred administrative district from the period 1938-1945 were lost or destroyed. The relevant parts that remained include the fragments of presidential and mobilization records that hold information on administrative measures against non-resident aliens and foreigners, internment and custody, registration, expulsion of Jews, supervision of Jewish organizations and institutions, military labour service, citizenship cases, implementation of anti-Jewish laws and decrees, the supervision and activities of extreme right-wing political parties and organizati...

  13. Records of the Districts of Pest-Pilis-Solt-Kiskun County, 1886-1944

    • Pest-Pilis-Solt-Kiskun Vármegye járásainak iratai 1886-1944

    The collection holds all the records of the 20 administrative districts (járás) that existed in Pest-Pilis-Solt-Kiskun County between 1886 and 1944. Relevant parts of the material include lists of taxpayers (taxation of lands, houses and other real estate), tax registries, lists of largest taxpayers, lists of permits of tradesmen and merchants, lists of apprentices and employees, drafts of conscripts, various records of industrial, commercial and financial enterprises, regulation of press and movies, lists of citizens committed to public works, lists of permits of tradesmen and merchants an...

  14. Records of the Eger Financial Directorate, 1870-1956

    The collection of the Financial Directorate covers all financial matters of companies and individuals, including but not limited to all kinds of taxation, salaries and pensions, monopolies and excises, licensing, fees and tolls, land mortgage and release, and insurance matters. The most relevant Holocaust-related part of the collection is the Records of the Department No VIII. from 1944, including declarations of Jewish citizens on their assets and inventories of Jewish property. Following the Nazi occupation of Hungary, Prime Minister’s Decree no. 1600/1944 issued on 16 April on the declar...

  15. Records of the Hungarian Royal Police Department of Vác, 1942, 1944

    • A M.Kir. Rendőrség Váci Kapitányságának iratai, 1942, 1944

    The collection holds the survived records of the Police Department of the town of Vác, mostly from the fateful year of 1944. Jewish-related cases are scattered throughout the material and include, but not limited to the following topics: permits and licenses of Jewish individuals and companies, extensions of permits and licenses, including events of communities and social organizations, citizenship and naturalization cases, certificates and residence permits, documents pertaining to the conscription of Jews and the yellow star decree and many other anti-Jewish measures in April 1944, the co...

  16. Records of the Mayor of Balassagyarmat

    • Balassagyarmat város polgármesterének iratai

    The collection holds the records of the Mayor, the head of the administration of the town of Balassagyarmat between 1922 and 1950. Records related to the Holocaust include, but not limited to the following topics: cases of trade licences and permits, citizenship and naturalisation cases, disenfranchisement of Jewish citizens, petitions for granting the right to vote, records concerning the implementation of the anti-Jewish laws as well as instances of bureaucratic and illegal antisemitic measures, building permits, internal matters of Jewish communities, ban on Zionist organizations, conscr...

  17. Records of the Mayor of Eger

    • Eger város polgármesterének iratai

    The collection holds the records of the Mayor, the head of the administration of the town of Eger between 1930 and 1950. Records related to the Holocaust include, but not limited to the following topics: cases of trade licences and permits, citizenship and naturalization cases, petitions for birth, death and marriage certificates and other personal documents, cases of inheritance, records concerning the implementation of anti-Jewish laws as well as instances of bureaucratic and illegal antisemitic measures, building permits, cases of military care for the family members of Jewish labour ser...

  18. Records of the Mayor of Gyöngyös

    • Gyöngyös város polgármesterének iratai

    The collection holds the records of the Mayor, the head of the administration of the town of Eger between 1884 and 1957. Records related to the Holocaust include, but not limited to the following topics: cases of trade licences and permits, citizenship and naturalization cases, disenfranchisement of Jewish citizens, petitions for granting the right to vote, records concerning the implementation of the anti-Jewish laws as well as instances of bureaucratic and illegal antisemitic measures, building permits, cases of military care for the family members of Jewish labour servicemen, registratio...

  19. Records of the Mayor of Salgótarján

    • Salgótarján város polgármesterének iratai

    The collection holds the records of the Mayor, the head of the administration of the town of Salgótarján between 1922 and 1950. Records related to the Holocaust include, but not limited to the following topics: cases of trade licences and permits, citizenship and naturalization cases, disenfranchisement of Jewish citizens, petitions for granting the right to vote, records concerning the implementation of the anti-Jewish laws as well as instances of bureaucratic and illegal antisemitic measures, building permits, internal matters of Jewish communities, ban on Zionist organizations, Jewish mi...

  20. Records of the Mayor of the Town of Cegléd, 1872-1944

    • Cegléd város polgármesterének iratai, 1872-1944

    The collection holds the records of the Mayor, the head of the administration of the town of Cegléd between 1872 and 1950. Records from the years 1938-1944 include but not limited to documents concerning the implementation of Jewish Laws and antisemitic bureaucratic procedures, including the withdrawal of trade licences and permits, quitting rental agreements of Jews, exclusion of Jews from the municipal committee and social organizations, discharge of Jewish private and state employees, registration and expropriation of Jewish landholdings; administrative procedures against Jewish communit...