Levéltári gyűjtemények Magyar Országos Levéltárból átkerült iratok Joint Magyarországi Képviselete iratai Records related to Hungarian Jewish communities

The collection consists of written recollections, protocols of the Magyarországi Zsidók Deportáltakat Gondozó Országos Bizottsága, DEGOB (National Committee Taking Care of Hungarian Jewish Deportees), an index to the DEGOB protocols, documents of the Central Council of the Hungarian Jews, records related to the registration of the Jewish communities, documents of the countryside ghettos, Holocaust-related name lists, lists of victims, prisoner registry cards, casualty cards, documents related to labor service, deportation of Hungarian Jews, rescue, resistance, inventories of the confiscated items and objects, tracing and compensation, antisemitic measures of the authorities; documents certifying labor service terms, personal documents from the Holocaust era, personal legacies, recollections, diaries, documents of the Hungarian Institute for Research of the Jewish Question, trial records, antisemitic publications, news clippings from various newspapers, concentration camps profiles, miscellaneous Holocaust-related documents, reports of status of inhabitants of Budapest, a report of Sándor Náthán, envoy of the Jewish Agency for Palestine, supplementary materials, documents related to the Central Jewish Council donated to the Archives in 2007, documents of the Jewish communities of Buda and Pest, and the Hungarian countryside. The accretion of the collection consists of documents of the Central Council of Hungarian Jews; miscellaneous documents of the Pest Jewish Community (including lists of internees transported to the Ukraine by the Hungarians in the framework of the so-called Kamenets Podolsk deportations of July 1941); Documents of the National Representation of Hungarian Israelites, Documents of the National Office of Hungarian Israelites (including post-war correspondence regarding efforts to reconstruct life in the countryside), and Documents of the Budapest Jewish Community.

The system of arrangement of the source repository has been preserved in the microfilmed reels, and is generally organized by subjects, however same subjects may overlaps within microfilm reels. Arranged in main 26 subject series: 1. Protocols (testimonies) of the Magyarországi Zsidók Deportáltakat Gondozó Országos Bizottsága, DEGOB (National Committee Taking Care of Hungarian Jewish Deportees) (Reel 1-5a); 2. Central Council of the Hungarian Jews (Reel 6-9; 63-65; 78-82, 110-114, 123, 129-133); 3. Countryside ghettos and labor services. Related name lists (Reel 10-24); 4. Deportation of Hungarian Jews and antisemitic publications. Related name lists (Reel 25); 5. Recollections, diaries (Reel 26-27); 6.Tracing, compensation, trials, anti-Semitic publications, name lists of Jews by localities, and miscellaneous documents (Reel 28-32); 7. Jewish community organizations. Countryside communities (Reel 33-45; 106-108); 8. Holocaust-related name lists. Lists of victims (Reel 57-58); 9. National Jewish Aid Organization (Reel 72); 10. International Organizations. World Jewish Congress (Reel 45-56); 11. Newspaper clipping collection (Reel 45-56, 82-105); 12. Pest Jewish Community. Countryside materials (Reel 58-62; 66-67; 82-105; 115-121; 125-127); 13. Placard and caricature collection (Reel 67); 14. Collections of personal documents and papers (Reel 67-71; 109, 124); 15. Documents of the Rabbinical Seminary of Budapest (Reel 73); 16. American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (Reel 73-77); 17. Budapest Jewish Community (Reel 119-121; 128); 18. Documents of the National Office of Hungarian Israelites (Reel 129-133); 19. Documents of the Central Council of the Hungarian Jews (Reel 134); 20. Documents of the National Office of Hungarian Israelites (Reel 135-143); 21. National Representation of Hungarian Israelites (Reel 144); 22. Documents of the Pest Jewish Community ( Reel 144-150) ; 23. National Jewish Relief Committee (Reel 150); 24..Personal documentary bequests (Reel 150); 25. Countryside Jewish communities: Szeged, Pécs, Szentes, Szarvas, Pestszenterzsébet (Reel 150); 26. Suplementary Series 04: Seperately collected documents related to Holocaust (Reel 151-167). The English language inventory provides detailed descriptions of the contents of the collection according to each microfilm reel and an original archival box number, folder number and descriptions of individual documents within each file, both by the subject label and original archival registration number.