Deportáltakat Gondozó Országos Bizottság (DEGOB)

  • National Relief Committee for Deportees
Identifier
PIH I-M
Language of Description
English
Level of Description
Collection
Languages
  • English
  • French
  • German
  • Hungarian
Scripts
  • Latin
Source
EHRI

Web Source

http://degob.org/

Extent and Medium

3666 protocols

Biographical History

The protocols were recorded by the staff of the Hungarian Jewish relief organisation, National Committee for Attending Deportees (DEGOB) in 1945-1946.

Archival History

The Hungarian Auschwitz Foundation, the predecessor of the HMC, obtained the copies of nearly all the protocols in the early 1990s

Scope and Content

The staff of the Hungarian Jewish relief organisation, National Committee for Attending Deportees (DEGOB), recorded the personal stories of approximately 5000 Hungarian Holocaust survivors in more than 3500 protocols in 1945-1946.

System of Arrangement

the collection is arranged by the number of the protocols

Finding Aids

  • the website http://degob.org/ contain the complete text and the scanned images of the protocols as well as the English translations of the texts. With the help of the general and advanced search, any data (geographical and personal names or any given Hungarian or English expression) may be searched for in the collection. The topical search categorizes the protocols by the most important historical aspects of the Holocaust.

Existence and Location of Originals

  • Hungarian Jewish Archives, HU HJA PIH I-M

Existence and Location of Copies

  • USHMM - RG-68.060M, Yad Vashem - O.15

Archivist Note

Description prepared by László Csősz. Source: http://degob.org/

Notes on this description

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