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Country: Hungary

  1. Teleki Pál miniszterelnök iratai

    • Personal Files of Prime Ministers and other governmental officials: Pál Teleki

    The collection contains a fragment of the semi-official correspondence of Pál Teleki between 1924 and 1941 that relate to his diverse public activities and his second time as Prime Minister between 1939 and 1941. A large part of the collection concerns Transylvania. The collection also contains his correspondence regarding social questions, correspondence with other leading politicians, correspondence related to his scholarly life and his correspondence related to the boy scout movement.

  2. Vatikáni követség iratai, 1920-1944

    • Records of the Hungarian Embassy in the Vatican, 1920-1944

    The Hungarian Embassy in the Vatican was established in 1920 and represented the Hungarian state at the Holy See. It was neither a representative of the Hungarian churches, nor of the Roman Catholic Church and was therefore not a person belonging to the Church. He was sent by the Head of the Hungarian State and worked for the Foreign Ministry. The Ambassador was accredited at the Papacy, had to be reaccredited by each new Pope and had a canonical adviser as his aide. His main role was to represent the church policies of the Hungarian government, prepare the visits of Hungarian statesmen and...

  3. 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...

  4. Visszaemlékezések gyűjteménye (1945-2010)

    • Collection of Testimonies (1945-2010)
    • Holokauszt Emlékközpont
    • Visszaemlékezések gyűjteménye (1945-2010)
    • English
    • 1945-2010
    • ca. 850 files, 4 linear metres

    The collection includes about 850 handwritten or typed testimonies, mostly from the years between the early 1960s and the late 1980s. The size of the testimonies varies between one page to hundreds of pages. Most of them focus on the years of persecution between 1938 and 1945, with special emphasis on the concentration camps and labor service units. However, they also contain valuable information on the pre-war history of the Hungarian Jewish communities and reflections on their post-war fate.

  5. XIII. Documents of the Chevra Kadisha of the Pest Jewish Community

    The collection contains documents of the Chevra Kadisha of the Pest Jewish Community from the 1940s. Most importantly for the study of the history of the Holocaust in Hungary, there are various documents from the month of April 1944, i.e. from the time after the German entry and the beginnings of the activities of the collaborationist government but before the mass deportations from the countryside. These documents include the datasheet regarding the financial situation and the assets of the Pest Chevra Kadisa compiled as stipulated by Prime Minister’s Decree 1600/1944, documents on the imp...

  7. XXIV. Gyűjtemények

    • Magyar Zsidó Levéltár
    • HU HJA XXIV
    • Hungarian
    • 1828-1960
    • anyakönyvek, iratok, másolatok, nyomtatványok, plakátok, kották, CD, DVD, video

  8. 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 ...

  9. 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...