• 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...

• 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 ...

• Presidium of Ministerial Council
• PMR - L

• Národní archiv
• 1006
• Czech, English
• 1940-1945
• 14,5 linear metres from which 14,5 linear metres of documents are processed and inventoried and accessible and 0,3 linear metres are unprocessed and not accessible.
• Updated 5 months ago

• The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust & Genocide
• WL1369
• English
• 1939
• 1 volume; 1 folder
• Updated 2 years ago

Readers need to book a reading room terminal to access this digital contentIt is the membership list of Captain Ramsay's Right Club, a body founded in May 1939 'to oppose and expose the activities of Organised Jewry'. Most of the members of the club were enlisted between May and July 1939, i.e. before the outbreak of the Second World War, and the list therefore gives no evidence as to any activities undertaken after the declaration of war.Though the name of the Right Club does not figure at the head of the volume, this is clearly the lost Right Club list for the following reasons:The physic...

• The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust & Genocide
• WL1305
• English
• 1939
• 1 folder
• Updated 2 years ago

Copy circular issued by the Reichsbund der Deutschen Beamten to all members regarding Jewish mixed race membership of the RDB, stating that whereas full Jews can no longer be members, Jews of mixed race can still be members under certain conditionsGerman 

• Records of Finance Minister Lajos Reményi-Schneller, 1938-1944

• Magyar Nemzeti Levéltár Országos Levéltára
• MNL OL K 280
• English
• 1938-1944
• 14 fasc., 1,56 linear metres
• Updated 10 years ago

The Hungarian Ministry of Finance was headed by Lajos Reményi-Schneller (1892-1946) between 1938 and 1944, i.e. Reményi-Schneller served in this position in the successive governments of Darányi, Imrédy, Teleki (his second term), Bárdossy, Kállay, Sztójay, Lakatos and Szálasi. Reményi-Schneller even held the position of economic superminister (gazdasági csúcsminiszter) in the governments of Teleki, Bárdossy and Kállay. His policies were strongly in favor of Nazi Germany during the war years. In 1946, he was sentenced to death and executed as part of the Sztójay-trial. The collection contain...

• Personal Files of Prime Ministers and other governmental officials: Döme Sztójay

• Magyar Nemzeti Levéltár Országos Levéltára
• MNL OL K 469
• English
• 1944
• 1 fasc., 0,01 linear metres
• Updated 10 years ago

Döme Sztójay (1883-1946), politician, diplomat and soldier. Sztójay served as Hungarian ambassador in Nazi Germany between 1936 and 1944. Upon March 19, 1944, Horthy was to appoint him to be Prime Minister and Foreign Minister in the collaborationist government of Hungary. Sztójay held these function between March and August 1944 and was thus directly responsible for the mass deportations of close to half a million Hungarian Jews to Auschwitz-Birkenau during these months. He was sentenced to death and executed in 1946. The collection is a fragment of the semi-official correspondence of Döme...

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

• Magyar Nemzeti Levéltár Országos Levéltára
• MNL OL K 37
• English
• 1924-1941
• 3 fasc., 0,4 linear metres
• Updated 10 years ago

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.

• 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...

• The Province of Sana and Luka

• Arhiv Republike Srpske
• VŽSiL
• English
• 1941-1945
• 62 boxes, books 16
• Updated 6 years ago

The records contain information created by one of regional government of Axis-puppet state, the Independent State of Croatia. The county of Sana and Luka had it's capital in Banja Luka in northwestern Bosnia. Banja Luka was considered as potential capital of the Independent State of Croatia, as it was geographically it's center, and this was seen as politically prudent. But this move of capital from Zagreb to Banja Luka was never completed.