Records of Hungarian banks and insurance companies (MOL Z)
Extent and Medium
29,149 digital images, JPEG
8 microfilm reels (digitized), 16 mm
Creator(s)
- Fonciére Általános Biztosító Intézetek
- Magyar Földhitelintézet
- Biztosító Intézetek Országos Szövetsége
- Els? Általános Biztosító Társaság
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, MOL (Hungarian National Archives), Files Z 121, Z 889, Z 1403, Z 169, Z 163, Z 170, Z 171-172, Z 1260. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum received the filmed collection via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum International Archival Programs Division in 2011.
Scope and Content
Selected records of Hungarian banks and insurance companies: how they implemented anti-Jewish regulations during the Horthy regime, personnel practices, confiscation of assets, responses to claims of Jewish customers. Postwar files focus on claims filed by customers whose assets were seized or employees who had lost their jobs.
System of Arrangement
The system of arrangement of the source repository has been preserved in the microfilmed reels. Arranged by subjects of various record group, MOL Z, and alphabetically by a name of individuals claiming for compensation.
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Copyright Holder: Magyar Országos Levéltár
People
- Horthy, Miklós, nagybányai, 1868-1957--Relations with Jews.
Subjects
- Holocaust survivors--Hungary--Registers.
- Jews--Hungary--Claims--Registers.
- Reparations for historical injustices--Germany--History.
- Hungary--Ethnic relations.
- Hungary--Politics and government--1945-1949.
- World War, 1939-1945--Confiscations and contributions--Hungary.
- Restitution and indemnification claims (1933-)--Registers.
- World War, 1939-1945--Claims--Germany (West)--History.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Hungary--Sources.
- Banks and banking--Records and correspondence--Government policy--Hungary--20th century.
Genre
- Indexes.
- Document
- Questionnaires.
- Registers.
Copies
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum holds copies of Holocaust-relevant archives from Magyar Országos Levéltár