Selected documents related to Hungary from the National Archives and Record Administration (NARA)
Extent and Medium
folders
20
Creator(s)
- United States. National Archives and Records Administration
Archival History
United States. National Archives and Records Administration
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection
From the National Archives and Records Administration. This collection originated after the National Archives of Hungary requested USHMM's help in locating the American interrogation protocols of groups of Hungarians who occupied important posts in the Hungarian government during the war and who were returned by US Forces from Austria to the Hungarian government in Budapest to stand trial. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the collection from NARA via the United States Holocaust Museum International Archives Project in December, 2008.
Scope and Content
This collection focuses on US government documents as represented in NARA holdings, which were related to activities of the US Armed Forces and the OSS (Office of Strategic Services) in the Hungarian and Austrian areas just before the end of the war and after the end of the war. It includes documents concerning the work of American OSS operative Martin Himmler, who supervised a series of interrogations of a group of Hungarians detained by US forces in Austria after the war, but it does not include the protocols of the interrogations themselves; these protocols were not found at NARA. It also contains correspondence among US government organizations concerning alleged Hungarian war criminals, information on relations between U.S. and Soviet representatives to the Allied Control Commission for Hungary, some name lists of Hungarians who were in German concentration camps, and materials generally related to Hungarian Jews and the German occupation of Hungary.
System of Arrangement
Arranged numerically by NARA Record Group numbers: 84, 153, 226, 242, 319, 331.
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Copyright Holder: United States. National Archives and Records Administration
Corporate Bodies
- Ebensee (Concentration camp)
- United States. Office of Strategic Services
Subjects
- Jewish property--Europe--History--20th century.
- Jews--Persecutions--Hungary.
- Hungary--Politics and government--1933-1945.
- World War, 1939-1945--Secret service--United States.
- World War, 1939-1945--Confiscations and contributions--Europe.
- World War, 1939-1945--Hungary.
- Jews--Hungary--History--20th century.
- War criminals--Hungary.
Genre
- Document
Copies
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum holds copies of Holocaust-relevant archives from United States. National Archives and Records Administration