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  1. A kormányzói iroda iratai

    • Records of the Regent’s Cabinet Office

    In 1920, in order to facilitate the administrative work of the Regent of Hungary, new offices were established called the Cabinet Office, the Military Office and the Economic Office though the last of the three was soon merged into the Cabinet Office. A tiny fraction of their documents survived and many of the other materials of the Office of the Head of State was also destroyed. For the Cabinet Office, practically the only remaining documents are from the years 1945-46 and concern economic matters (K 588). The scope of these economic affairs was rather restricted as it concerned the salary...

  2. A közigazgatás területi szervei

    • The Territorial Bodies of Administration

    The collection on the Territorial Bodies of the Administration at the Budapest Municipal Archive contains much that is of relevance for the study of anti-Semitic radicalization and the Holocaust in Hungary. First of all, there is the documentation of the Hungarian police organs of the capital city who were among the Hungarian authorities actively involved in the persecution of Jews. The collection includes vast records of the Chief Captancy of the Hungarian Royal Police of Budapest (Magyar Királyi Államrendőrség Budapesti Főkapitánysága), its Central Organization (Budapesti Rendőr-főkapitán...

  3. A letter (memoir) relating to the hiding of Jewish children in Radom

    Letter, dated 1993, sent as condolence to the Melamed family at death of Leon Melamed, and reminiscences about how he saved author of letter, Felicia Sandzer, during war.

  4. A letter and a Nazi publication relating to the Nazi view of Jewry

    Letter, from German Consul General in Montreal, Canada (L. Kempff), November 1933, addressed "Dear Sir" and elaborating justification for Germany's treatment of Jews, along with printed booklet, titled "Germany's Fight for Western Civilization," 32 pages, printed in Berlin. Letter may have been mass produced for wider distribution in Canada, in response to speeches of Rabbi Stephen Wise.

  5. A letter describing conditions at Dachau

    Letter (photocopied), 5 pages, sent from Pfc. Melvin Swick to his wife, May 1945, describing conditions at Dachau after liberation.

  6. A letter from a Protective Custody Inmate at Auschwitz #129866, April 8, 1944

    Letter, photocopied, from prisoner (unidentified) at Auschwitz to woman in Warsaw, April 1944.

  7. A letter from Daphne McLachlan about her experiences at Bergen-Belsen

    Testimony: One letter (two pages), from Daphne McLachlan to Rabbi Abraham Klausner, 1995, describing her experiences at Bergen-Belsen.

  8. A letter in honor of deceased American GI who experienced atrocities at Buchenwald

    Contains a typescript copy of a letter in the form of a memoir written by Franklin P. Shaw in honor of William Malsh's contribution to the liberation of Buchenwald. Shaw explains that Lieutenant William R. Malsh commanded a Military Intelligence Interrogation team that was ordered to Buchenwald on April 12, 1945. On General Patton’s orders, Malsh instructed the mayor of Weimar to arrange for one thousand Weimar citizens to visit the liberated Buchenwald concentration camp, and Shaw describes the reactions of the German visitors to the scenes at Buchenwald.

  9. A letter to my son

    Testimony, 27 pages, photocopy of typescript, written by Paula Cables, titled "Letter to My Son." Describes childhood and youth in Lithuania (near Kaunas/Kovno), occupation by Soviets and then Germans, life in Kovno (Kaunas) ghetto, deportation to Stutthof.

  10. A Liberator of Dachau Remembered

  11. A life of survival

    The testimony describes John P. Kartal's early life in Hungary, his experiences as a laborer during World War II, his hiding during the deportation of Hungarian Jews, his life under Hungary's post-war communist government, and his immigration to the United States.

  12. A Lublin family remembered

    A Lublin family remembered consists of one postcard, one pamphlet, and one videorecording (not digitized), all relating to the unveiling of a memorial to the Zajfsztajn family of Lublin, Poland, at the Glusk Jewish cemetery in June 1995.

  13. A magyar háborús bűnösök állambiztonsági vizsgálatának dokumentumai

    • Records of State Security Investigations of Hungarian War Criminals

    Contains records of interrogations of suspected war criminals by the investigative branch of the Hungarian Ministry of Internal Affairs, Hungarian Police State Protection Department (Magyar Államrendőrség Államvédelmi Osztálya, ÁVO), and later by the independent Agency for State Security State Protection Authority, (Államvédelmi Hatóság, ÁVH), primarily confessions and witness testimonies.

  14. A Magyar Izraeliták Országos Irodájának iratai

    • Documents of the National Office of Hungarian Israelites

    This body of documents holds the records of the National Office of Hungarian Israelites. Its elements with relevance to the history of antisemitism and the Holocaust range from 1939 to 1945 and include: documents regarding the organization’s responses to the anti-Jewish legislation, such as appeals and petitions written to the Hungarian governmental and legislative authorities; correspondence with Jewish individuals, communities and Hungarian and foreign authorities regarding the individual cases of persecuted Hungarian Jews in the country and abroad; documents regarding the aid and relief ...

  15. A Magyar Távirati Iroda iratai. Kőnyomatosok (1920-1949)

    • Records of the Hungarian News Agency. Lithographs (1920-1949)

    The Hungarian News Agency circulated a huge amount of diverse materials in the inter-war period and the years of the Second World War. They were still called lithographs though they actually consisted of stencil materials by this time. For the Hungarian papers, the Hungarian News Agency sent daily, weekly and confidential reports, economic editions and related dispatches. It circulated separately prepared news for foreign consumption. It also had internal handouts and so called unpublished communiqués. With the sole exception of the confidential reports, all of these were prepared without i...

  16. A memoir

    Contains a one-page testimony of a former forced laborer in Romania.

  17. A memoir

    Contains a photocopy of a typescript memoir (4 pages, English) and manuscript (7 pages, Russian).

  18. A memoir

    Testimony, 1 page, typewritten, in form of letter, in which author describes her experiences in German occupied Ukraine, in the hopes this will help her with restitution claim via the Claims Conference.

  19. A memoir

    Thesis (not testimony). Consists of thesis submitted by Anja Siebert at the University of Kassel, 1993, as part of her studies in the school of education and/or English, detailing a curriculum to be used to teach students of English using the Holocaust memoir "Seeds of Sarah" by Judith Isaacson.

  20. A memoir

    Testimony, typescript (photocopy), 28 pages. Author discusses origins in Greiz (Thuringia), escape in 1940 for Yugoslavia but ends up in Italy instead, until arrested, sent to Fossoli, and then Auschwitz.