Personal records of the Hungarian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MOL K 150 P)
Extent and Medium
81,124 digital images, JPEG
22 microfilm reels (digitized), 16 mm
Creator(s)
- Hungary. Belu?gyminiszte?rium.
Archival History
Magyar Országos Levéltár
Acquisition
Forms part of the Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. This archive consists of documentation whose reproduction and/or acquisition was made possible with funding from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
Source of acquisition is the Magyar Országos Levéltár (Hungarian National Archives), Record Group MOL K 150 P. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum received the filmed collection via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum International Archival Programs Division in June 2006.
Scope and Content
Records of Hungarian law enforcement authorities about extra-judicial suppression of such activities as "spreading rumors," "anti-state" or "anti-Hungarian" statements, listening to British or Soviet radio broadcasts, "profiteering," "hoarding," sheltering Jewish fugitives, providing the latter with false papers, bribing officials, "vagrancy," prostitution, "miscegination," and so on. Measures included not only arrest and incarceration, but house arrest, restrictions on use of telephones and postal services, banishment from particular places, forbidding contact with persons outside immediate family, and the like. Police records (including fingerprints), suspects' statements, authorizations, appeals, suspension of measures, communications with attorneys, and other materials.
System of Arrangement
The system of arrangement of the source repository has been preserved in the microfilmed reels. Arranged in two series: 1. Public Safety: Police surveillance files with individaul cases (Reel 1-20); 2. Health Administration: Forced labor doctors; Permits for new pharmacies; Statements in hospitals and clinics in Budapest forJewish patients. Individual cases (Reel 20-21).
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Copyright Holder: Magyar Országos Levéltár
Corporate Bodies
- Hungary. Belügyminisztérium
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Hungary.
- Police administration--Hungary--History--20th century.
- Hungary--Ethnic relations.
- World War, 1939-1945--Conscript labor--Hungary.
- Forced labor--Law and legislation--Hungary--20th century.
- Jewish physicians--Hungary----20th century.
- Jews--Persecutions--Hungary--20th century.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Hungary.
- Hungary--Politics and government--1918-1945.
- Antisemitism--History--20th century.
- Public health administration--Hungary--History--20th century.
- Jews--Legal status, laws, etc.--Hungary--20th century.
Genre
- Reports.
- Permits.
- Document
- Statements.
Copies
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum holds copies of Holocaust-relevant archives from Magyar Országos Levéltár