Card file of members of Hungarian labor battalions who perished
Extent and Medium
80 boxes
Creator(s)
Scope and Content
The card file was collected and compiled by the Hungarian Ministry of Defense (Honvédelmi Minisztérium) between the years 1945-1954, and includes the personal cards of Hungarian Jewish victims. Some of the documents are photocopies of death certificates which were issued by local courts on the basis of lists and publications of various bodies such as the International Tracing Service, the US army, declarations by individuals regarding Hungarian Jews who had perished, and lists prepared by former prisoners.The card file, which was used for legal, and other, purposes includes information about 68,322 people who perished. The card file includes information about:1) Jewish forced laborers from the labor battalions of the Hungarian Army 2) Prisoners in Soviet prison camps3) Victims of crimes against the Jews within Hungarian territory; such as Jews killed by Arrow Cross men 4) Inmates of various concentration camps; including forced laborers who were deported from their labor camps to concentration camps at the beginning of 1945, and those who were deported from Hungary to concentration camps in spring-summer 1944.
Finding Aids
Alphabetical lists All the names are indexed and are available on IDEA ALM system at Yad Vashem Archives reading room
Existence and Location of Originals
Hadtörténeti Intézet és Múzeum Hadtörténelmi Levéltára, Budapest, Hungary
Existence and Location of Copies
YV archives
Archivist Note
JL according to the RG description in the YV system
Dates of Descriptions
2014-05-19
Corporate Bodies
Subjects
- Deportations
- Forced labour
- Deportation of Jews from Hungary
Places
- Hungary