Magyar Nemzeti Levéltár Országos Levéltára

• Records of the Hungarian Embassy in Stockholm, 1920-1945

• Magyar Nemzeti Levéltár Országos Levéltára
• MNL OL K 101
• English
• 1920-1945
• 60 fasc., 67 vols., 10,67 linear metres
• Updated 10 years ago

Records of the Hungarian Embassy in Stockholm, the capital city of neutral Sweden contain considerable material concerning Hungarian Jews from 1938 to 1944, from the era of anti-Jewish laws and the Holocaust. Relevant parts of the collection include in large quantities citizenship cases, inheritance-related cases, there are birth and divorce certificates, visa-related documents of Hungarian Jews emigrated to Sweden. In this collection there are records about different cases of pertaining to Hungarian Jews: documents about visa falsification, withdrawal of citizenship, refugees, request for ...

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

• Magyar Nemzeti Levéltár Országos Levéltára
• MNL OL K 105
• English
• 1920-1944
• 46 fasc., 40 vols., 6,99 linear metres
• Updated 10 years ago

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...

• Records of the Hungarian Agency at the League of Nations and the Consulate General in Geneva, 1920-1945

• Magyar Nemzeti Levéltár Országos Levéltára
• MNL OL K 107
• English
• 1920-1945
• 139 fasc., 62 vols., 21,4 linear metres
• Updated 10 years ago

Records of the Hungarian Agency at the League of Nations and its successor (from 1939), the Hungarian Consulate in Geneva, Switzerland, contain material concerning Hungarian Jews from 1920 to 1939. The overwhelming majority of the records are from 1938 and 1939. The most relevant parts of the collection include various reports concerning the “Jewish question”, Zionism and the Palestine problem between 1930 and 1939, comprehensive political reports, and general documents pertaining to Hungarian Jews, such as demographical statistics and charts, the memorandum of Foreign Minister Kálmán Kánya...

• Records of the Hungarian Consulate General in Amsterdam, 1924-1945

• Magyar Nemzeti Levéltár Országos Levéltára
• MNL OL K 109
• English
• 1924-1945
• 32 fasc., 21 vols., 4,86 linear metres
• Updated 10 years ago

Records of the Hungarian Consulate General in Amsterdam, the capital city of Netherlands contain considerable material concerning Hungarian Jews, especially from the period 1938 to 1944, the era of anti-Jewish laws in Hungary and the Nazi occupation and the Holocaust in the Netherlands. Relevant parts of the collection include in large quantities citizenship cases and visa-related documents of the Hungarian Jews residing in the Netherlands. After the German occupation in May 1940, Jews were subjected to various anti-Jewish measures. In this context different types of records can be found in...

• Records of the Hungarian Consulate in Graz, 1928-1945

• Magyar Nemzeti Levéltár Országos Levéltára
• MNL OL K 119
• English
• 1928-1945
• 63 fasc., 17 vols., 10,04 linear metres
• Updated 10 years ago

Records of the Hungarian Consulate in Graz, the capital of the federal Austrian state of Styria contain considerable material concerning Hungarian Jews, especially from the months following the annexation of Austria by Nazi Germany in March 1938. The bulk of the material documents the efforts of Hungarian authorities to secure the assets of the Hungarian Jews living in Nazi-occupied Austria. These records include various registries and reports concerning the property of the Hungarian Jews in Styria, documents on German-Hungarian negotiations on the wealth of Hungarian Jews and other anti-Je...

• Records of the Executive Office of the Hungarian Ministry of Internal Affairs, 1938-1944 [Presidential]

• Magyar Nemzeti Levéltár Országos Levéltára
• MNL OL K 148
• English
• 1938-1944
• 6 boxes, 1202 fasc., 406 vols., 196,77 linear metres
• Updated 10 years ago

The collection consists of records handled by the Executive Office (Elnöki Osztály), which was the office of the Minister of Internal Affairs. These are the documents of parliamentary interpellations (e.g. by the Arrow-Cross MP Kálmán Hubay, or the anti-Nazi MP Endre Bajcsy-Zsilinszky) to the Minister, and his answers; reports to the Minister regarding the activities of Jewish individuals (e.g. the communist Endre Ságvári) and communities (e.g. the Jews of Békés county); issues concerning the citizenship of Jews, the 1941 round-up and deportation of the so called “stateless” Jews, the exemp...

• Records of the Hungarian Ministry of Internal Affairs, Classified Documents, 1938-1944

• Magyar Nemzeti Levéltár Országos Levéltára
• MNL OL K 149
• English
• 1938-1944
• 327 boxes, 49 vols., 41,7 linear metres
• Updated 10 years ago

MOL K 149 PTI contains monthly police reports for more than sixty cities; Intelligence on rightists (e.g., Arrow Cross) and leftists (e.g., Social-Democrats and Communists); various nationalities (Ruthenians, Germans, Slovaks, and others); religious sects (e.g., Jehovah’s Witnesses); and Jews, including refugees from Slovakia; Secret reports on public opinion generally and among suspect groups in particular about political, military, and economic affairs.

• Records of the Hungarian Ministry of Internal Affairs, 1938-1944

• Magyar Nemzeti Levéltár Országos Levéltára
• MNL OL K 150
• English
• 1938-1944
• 4535 fasc., 1630 vols., 775,68 linear metres
• Updated 10 years ago

This collection contains documents regarding the implementation of anti-Jewish legislation in Hungary as well as instructions given to various levels of public administration regarding Jewish matters in the years of worsening anti-Semitic discrimination prior to the mass deportations. Other records document disciplinary actions taken in extra-judicial ways. Moreover, the collection includes information on the processing of passports, repatriations and grievances and has records on the policy adopted toward Hungarian citizens residing abroad and non-citizens residing in Hungary. MOL K 150 P ...

• Records of Ungvár Economic Office of the Kassa or 8th Gendarmerie District of Hungary (1939-1945)

• Magyar Nemzeti Levéltár Országos Levéltára
• MNL OL K 165
• English
• 1939-1945
• 1 fasc., 0,06 linear metres
• Updated 6 years ago

Next to various levels of public administration and the Hungarian police forces, the Hungarian gendarmerie was the major organization responsible for the implementation of the Holocaust in Hungary in 1944. Its representatives ghettoized and deported Hungarian Jews from the countryside and often did so in a cruel and brutal manner. The 8th Gendarmerie district of Hungary was organized upon Hungary's (re)acquisition of territory from Czechoslovakia around the time of the latter's destruction. The gendarmerie district had its center in Kassa and had one of its divisions in Ungvár. Miscellaneou...

• Presidential Records of the Ministry of Agriculture (1889-1944)

• Magyar Nemzeti Levéltár Országos Levéltára
• MNL OL K 178
• English
• 1889-1944
• 1152 fasc., 300 vols., 180,28 linear metres
• Updated 10 years ago

Besides the anti-Semitic laws introduced in Hungary in the late 1930s and early 1940s that were of a more general scope, there was also a more specific initiative to reduce the involvement of Jews in the sphere of agriculture with the aim of excluding them from the Hungarian soil. This drive found its major legal expression in law XV. of 1942, also called the fourth Jewish law. The collection titled Presidential Records of the Ministry of Agriculture (1889-1944) contain the papers that were created at the Presidential Department (Elnöki Osztály) during these years. The subject of the papers...

• General Records of the Ministry of Agriculture (1889-1944)

• Magyar Nemzeti Levéltár Országos Levéltára
• MNL OL K 184
• English
• 1889-1944
• 7722 fasc., 5106 vols.,1314,16 linear metres
• Updated 10 years ago

Besides the anti-Semitic laws introduced in Hungary in the late 1930s and early 1940s that were of a more general scope, there was also a more specific initiative to reduce the involvement of Jews in the sphere of agriculture with the aim of excluding them from the Hungarian soil. This drive found its major legal expression in law XV. of 1942, also called the fourth Jewish law. The collection titled General Records of the Ministry of Agriculture (1889-1944) contain the papers that were created during the operation of the chief departments of the Ministry of Agriculture. The papers have been...

• Lower House of Parliament and National Assembly, 1861-1944: Presidential and General Records

• Magyar Nemzeti Levéltár Országos Levéltára
• MNL OL K 2
• English
• 1867-1945
• 716 fasc., 1 box, 437 vols., 125,1 linear metres
• Updated 10 years ago

The Lower House of the Hungarian Parliament was a centrally important stage for debates about the political behaviour, socioeconomic position and legal status of Jews in the late 1930s and early 1940s. The Hungarian Parliament was responsible for worsening anti-Semitic legislation in these years that gradually withdrew Jewish emancipation. The opinion that gained the upper hand in the parliamentary debates viewed Jews as a group opposed to the interests Hungariandom and was to define Jewry as a racial entity. The laws enacted gravely restricted the opportunities of Jewish citizens and incre...

• Records of the Ministry of Industry (1935-1948)

• Magyar Nemzeti Levéltár Országos Levéltára
• MNL OL K 239
• English
• 1935-1948
• 14 boxes, 4 vols., 1,82 linear metres
• Updated 10 years ago

The Ministry of Industry (Iparügyi Minisztérium) was established in 1935 and partially replaced the Ministry of Trade (Kereskedelemügyi Minisztérium) that had just been abolished. The Ministry of Industry was in operation between August 1, 1935 and April 4, 1945. During the last months of the Second World War and Arrow Cross rule, it no longer functioned on a regular basis. Unfortunately, the actual materials of the Ministry of Industry were destroyed during the battle for Budapest in the winter of 1944-1945. The collection therefore contains papers that were preserved at other ministries o...

• Records of State Secretary Aurél Halla

• Magyar Nemzeti Levéltár Országos Levéltára
• MNL OL K 245
• English
• 1936-1938
• 9 Boxes, 1,08 linear metres
• Updated 10 years ago

The overwhelming majority of the records of the Ministry of Trade and Transportation were destroyed during the siege of Budapest in 1944-45, when the main building of the ministry was destroyed by bomb attack. Therefore, the records of the ministry survived in other collections have special relevance for the study of the economic anti-Jewish policies in Hungary. State Secretary Aurél Halla was one of the key persons in the Ministry of Trade and Transportation responsible for the planning and implementation anti-Jewish legislation. Halla also worked for various companies, and he was an activ...

• Records of the National Public Supplies Office (1940-1945)

• Magyar Nemzeti Levéltár Országos Levéltára
• MNL OL K 254
• English
• 1940-1945
• 8 boxes, 14 vols., 1,76 linear metres
• Updated 10 years ago

In Hungary, a Minister without Portfolio for Public Supplies (közellátás) was appointed in 1940. The major aims of creating such a new position was to exert increased state control and improve the organization of the economic life of the country, assure that foreign trade was beneficial for military as well as civilian purposes, and to have an uniform control and administration of the food supply as well as that of other public necessities. In order to help the work of the Minister without Portfolio, a National Office for Public Supplies (Országos Közellátási Hivatal) was organized. The Tra...

• Ministry of Finance, Classified Presidential Documents (1871-1944)

• Magyar Nemzeti Levéltár Országos Levéltára
• MNL OL K 256
• English
• 1871-1944
• 37 fasc., 16 vols., 5,92 linear metres
• Updated 10 years ago

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 ...

• Records of the Prime Minister’s Office (1867-1945)

• Magyar Nemzeti Levéltár Országos Levéltára
• MNL OL K 26
• English
• 1867-1945
• 1406 fasc., 216 vols., 212,74 linear metres
• Updated 10 years ago

A whole row of Hungarian Prime Ministers and their offices have played notable roles in the history of anti-Semitism and the persecution of the Jews during the 1930s and 1940s. In Hungary, anti-Semitic initiatives, including anti-Semitic legislation, was often launched and even more often supported at this level. In 1944, following the entry of Nazi Germany into Hungary, it was the newly appointed government headed by Prime Minister Döme Sztójay that actively collaborated with the German Sonderkommando in the implementation of the mass deportations to Auschwitz-Birkenau. The Records of the ...

• Circular Decress (1867-1942)

• Magyar Nemzeti Levéltár Országos Levéltára
• MNL OL K 266
• English
• 1867-1942
• 17 fasc., 3 vols., 2,6 linear metres
• Updated 10 years ago

This collection includes circular decrees (körrendeletek) of the Ministry of Finance for the years 1867 to 1942. The last four to five years covered by the collection, i.e. the late 1930s and early 1940s, is relevant for the study of anti-Semitic radicalization in Hungary since the anti-Semitic policies of the times were initated not only by numerous major anti-Semitic laws adopted in Parliament but were also implemented through hundreds of decrees and such circulars from ministries with the Ministry of Finance playing a notable role. Circular decrees from those years may have had explicit ...

• Papers of the Ministry of Finance (1867-1945)

• Magyar Nemzeti Levéltár Országos Levéltára
• MNL OL K 269
• English
• 1867-1945
• 516 fasc., 35 vols., 73,841 linear metres
• Updated 10 years ago

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) who served as Minister of Finance under the succe...

• Protocols of the Council of Ministers

• Magyar Nemzeti Levéltár Országos Levéltára
• MNL OL K 27
• English
• 1910-1944
• 145 fasc., 17 vols., 21,9 linear metres
• Updated 6 years ago

The Council of Ministers was the most important executive authority in Hungary before and during the Holocaust. It was composed of Ministers who could be substituted by leading Ministry officials. It was presided by the Head of State (Regent Horthy until 1944) or, in his absence, the Prime Minister. The Council of Ministers tended to hold its sessions once a week but occasionally more often than that. After 1920, proposals were pre-circulated, the Ministers only added their remarks at the meetings and debates could ensue. The Council of Ministers, originally established in the year of the A...