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Country: Hungary

  1. Földművelődésügyi Minisztérium, Általános iratok (1889-1944)

    • General Records of the Ministry of Agriculture (1889-1944)

    Besides the anti-Semitic laws introduced in Hungary in the late 1930s and early 1940s that were of a more general scope, there was also a more specific initiative to reduce the involvement of Jews in the sphere of agriculture with the aim of excluding them from the Hungarian soil. This drive found its major legal expression in law XV. of 1942, also called the fourth Jewish law. The collection titled General Records of the Ministry of Agriculture (1889-1944) contain the papers that were created during the operation of the chief departments of the Ministry of Agriculture. The papers have been...

  2. Iparügyi Minisztérium általános iratai (1935-1948)

    • Records of the Ministry of Industry (1935-1948)

    The Ministry of Industry (Iparügyi Minisztérium) was established in 1935 and partially replaced the Ministry of Trade (Kereskedelemügyi Minisztérium) that had just been abolished. The Ministry of Industry was in operation between August 1, 1935 and April 4, 1945. During the last months of the Second World War and Arrow Cross rule, it no longer functioned on a regular basis. Unfortunately, the actual materials of the Ministry of Industry were destroyed during the battle for Budapest in the winter of 1944-1945. The collection therefore contains papers that were preserved at other ministries o...

  3. Magyar Távirati Iroda iratai. Ügyviteli iratok (1920-1944)

    • Records of the Hungarian News Agency. Administrative documents (1920-1944)

    The collection of the administrative documents of the Hungarian Telegraph Agency contains the documents from the executive committee of the Hungarian Telegraph Agency, minutes of the meetings of its directorate, papers related to its economic matters and personnel questions as well as its correspondence. This last part of correspondence includes exchanges between the Hungarian Telegraph Agency and various other national and international telegraph agencies and reporters. Among others, there is correspondence with agencies in Berlin (1936-1939), Rome (1924-1936) and Vienna (1936-1938). The H...

  4. A Magyar Távirati Iroda iratai. Kőnyomatosok (1920-1949)

    • Records of the Hungarian News Agency. Lithographs (1920-1949)

    The Hungarian News Agency circulated a huge amount of diverse materials in the inter-war period and the years of the Second World War. They were still called lithographs though they actually consisted of stencil materials by this time. For the Hungarian papers, the Hungarian News Agency sent daily, weekly and confidential reports, economic editions and related dispatches. It circulated separately prepared news for foreign consumption. It also had internal handouts and so called unpublished communiqués. With the sole exception of the confidential reports, all of these were prepared without i...

  5. Magyar Filmiroda Rt. iratai

    • Records of the Hungarian Film Office

    The Hungarian Film Office was a branch of the Magyar Távirati Iroda (the Hungarian News Agency). The Film Office was primarily responsible for producing the weekly reports titled Hungarian News and the Hungária 16 mm films. It had a department of photography too, which provided periodicals with photos of current events and the main sites of the country. It also had a department of advertisement, which produced commercials for the movie theaters. The collection contains information on the operation of the film office such as minutes of its meetings on various levels or its budgets and turnov...

  6. Magyar Rádió és Telefonhírmondó, ügyviteli iratok

    • The Hungarian Radio and Telephone News Agency, administrative documents

    The collection contains various documents of the Hungarian Radio and Telephone News Agency. The documents concern its general meetings, the activities of its executive committee, its directorate, the central administrative unit as well as of the screening committee that operated between 1945 and 1948. The collection also contains documents on the personnel of the Hungarian Radio and Telephone News public company, such as the personnel cards from 1939 when the anti-Semitic laws were being enforced, on its economic matters and also documents that were created during the editing of the radio s...

  7. Magyar Rádió és Telefonhírmondó iratai

    • Records of the Hungarian Radio and Telephone News Agency

    The records of the Hungarian Radio at the Budapest City Archive provide an invaluable and underutilized source for the study of the era of Nazism and the Holocaust in Europe. Hungarian radio records exist not only for the years of anti-Semitic radicalization in Hungary but also for 1944, the main year of the Holocaust in Hungary as well as the early postwar period when the first wave of dealing with these recent pasts could be observed. More concretely, the collection contains the existent scripts of Hungarian radio shows originally broadcasted on short and medium waves between the years 19...

  8. Magyarországi kárpótlási iratok, 1946-1998

    • Records of Compensation in Hungary, 1946-1998

    The records on compensation programs that were implemented to help Hungarian survivors of the Holocaust are from the years 1946 to 1998 with the bulk of the materials concerning 1957 to 1975, the main period of compensation programs run by West Germany when agencies and individuals in communist Hungary would already be among their recipients. The various documents in the collection include notes and minutes, circulars and internal exchanges of relevant official Hungarian bodies. There are also the documents that supported Hungarian and Hungarian Jewish claims, including individual claim she...

  9. A Kassai VIII. Csendőrkerület (1944-1945)

    • Records of the Kassa or 8th Gendarmerie District of Hungary (1944-1945)

    Next to various levels of public administration and the Hungarian police forces, the Hungarian gendarmarie was the major organization responsible for the implementation of the Holocaust in Hungary in 1944. Its representatives ghettoized and deported Hungarian Jews from the countryside and often did so in a cruel and brutal manner. The 8th Gendarmerie district of Hungary was organized upon Hungary's (re)acquisition of territory from Czechoslovakia around the time of the latter's destruction. Records of the 8th gendarmerie district concern, above all, the processes of confiscation, processing...

  10. Budapest Székesfőváros Főpolgármesterének iratai

    • Records of the Mayor of Budapest

    Unified Budapest was created in the early 1870s and the city would soon emerge as a modern metropolis that in many ways acquired a dominant role in Hungarian affairs. The Mayor of Budapest was therefore a highly significant function. Since Budapest also had the second largest Jewish community on the continent with over 200 000 members and Jews played particularly prominent roles in the life of the city, the Records of the Mayor of Budapest are also of special interest to the study of how the country’s anti-Semitic radicalization was negotiated in the capital city. The story of Budapest and ...

  11. Budapest Székesfőváros Statisztikai Hivatalának iratai, 1870-1952

    • Records of the Bureau of Statistics of the Capital City of Budapest, 1870-1952

    The capital city of Budapest has played a major role in the life of Hungarian Jewry in modern times. By the 1930s and 1940s, the Jews of Budapest constituted by far the largest community in the country and second largest urban Jewish community on the continent (right behind Warsaw). After the Trianon Treaty of 1920 but before the rounds of border revisions between 1938 and 1941, around half of the Jews of Hungary belonged to this community. This meant that Jewish Hungarians amounted to nearly one-quarter of the population of Budapest at the beginning of the 20th century though, due at first...

  12. Kerületi Elöljáróságok iratai

    • Records of the District Councils of Budapest

    The Hungarian Law 1893:XXXIII. turned the Budapest district councils, at that time ten of them to which another four were to be added during the 1930s, into modern administrative bodies. Their functions extended way beyond administrative cases and combined functions of an office with an authority responsible for the issuing of certificates, the judging of cases of misdemeanor, the registration of children obliged to attend schools, the arrangement of public health-related issues, the pursuit of poor relief, etc. The combined profile of the disctrict councils of Budapest as administrative of...

  13. A jogszolgáltatás területi szervei

    • The Territorial Bodies of Jurisprudence

    During the ever more drastic anti-Semitic turn of Hungary in the late years of the 1930s and the years of the Second World War, anti-Semitic radicalization has largely been a legalized process – even if a host of regulations that may not have been explicitly anti-Semitic were also applied to anti-Semitic effect (called bureaucratic anti-Semitism) and there were initiatives coming from lower levels that often violated the discriminatory laws in place (i.e. illegal anti-Semitism). Nevertheless, how exactly the Hungarian justice system functioned in these years and how it related to the escala...

  14. Budapesti Nemzeti Bizottság iratai. A náci és nyilas rémtettek kivizsgálására alakult bizottság iratai

    • Budapest National Committee. The Committee for the Investigation of Nazi and Arrow Cross Atrocities

    The Records of the Committee for the Investigation of Nazi and Arrow Cross Atrocities are incorporated into the Records of the Budapest National Committee. The survived records include the documents related to the establishment of the Committee (fasc.9.), further documents related to the activities of the Committee including its correspondence with the Hungarian institutions of justice and investigation, photographs, documents on the burial of dead bodies that were lying in the territory of the ghetto, the protocols the Committee recorded or received in its official capacity, police protoco...

  15. Nyilas Képviselőház, 1944-1945 (Sopron)

    • The Arrow Cross Parliament, 1944-1945 (Sopron)

    After the botched attempt of Regent Miklós Horthy in mid-October 1944 to switch sides in the war, power in Hungary was taken over by the Arrow Cross who committed the country to the war effort on the side of Nazi Germany. The military situation deteriorated further for the Axis powers and by November the Arrow Cross leadership decided to move its seat westward from Budapest to the Hungarian-Austrian border area. The central offices of the leadership moved to Kőszeg while the sessions of the rump parliament were held in Sopron where they operated until March 1945. This collection contains do...

  16. Berlini követség iratai

    • Records of the Hungarian Embassy in Berlin, Nazi Germany

    The evolving relations between Nazi Germany and Hungary were one of the most central factors in the implementation of the Holocaust in Hungary. The records of the Hungarian Embassy in Berlin are of crucial importance since they convey information on the Holocaust and a sense of the differences and negotiation between the two states with the Hungarian Ambassador being an important agent in his own right. The documents are of special significance also since Regent Miklós Horthy appointed former Hungarian Ambassador Döme Sztójay as Prime Minister of Hungary in 1944 once Nazi Germany entered Hu...

  17. Római követség iratai, 1920-1944

    • Records of the Hungarian Embassy in Rome, 1920-1944

    Records of the Hungarian Embassy in Rome, the capital of Fascist Italy, that are relevant for the study of the history of the Holocaust relate to citizenship cases of Hungarian Jews and include birth certificates, documents of origin and baptism, requests of passport, visa, cases of emigration, work permits but also documentation of cases of internment and deportation.

  18. Vatikáni követség iratai, 1920-1944

    • Records of the Hungarian Embassy in the Vatican, 1920-1944

    The Hungarian Embassy in the Vatican was established in 1920 and represented the Hungarian state at the Holy See. It was neither a representative of the Hungarian churches, nor of the Roman Catholic Church and was therefore not a person belonging to the Church. He was sent by the Head of the Hungarian State and worked for the Foreign Ministry. The Ambassador was accredited at the Papacy, had to be reaccredited by each new Pope and had a canonical adviser as his aide. His main role was to represent the church policies of the Hungarian government, prepare the visits of Hungarian statesmen and...

  19. Berni követségi iratai

    • Records of the Hungarian Embassy in Bern, Switzerland

    The collection of materials from the Hungarian Embassy in Bern, Switzerland includes miscellaneous documents. It contains information on the Swiss policy towards foreigners and the concrete measures adopted to control them, including the operation of refugee camps. More concretely, there are documents on Hungarian citizens residing in Switzerland and Hungarian Jewish migration to Switzerland as well as on the internment of Hungarian citizens as well as references to their deportation by Nazi Germany. The collection also contains official reports on Swiss internal affairs, foreign policy and...

  20. Vichy-i követség iratai, 1940-1944

    • Records of the Hungarian Embassy in Vichy, 1940-1944

    With the defeat of France in 1940 and the signing of the armistice, the so called French State with its capital in Vichy emerged. The Hungarian state appointed an Ambassador to this nominally sovereign entity in unoccupied France. Its Embassy processed hundreds of cases which are part of this collection. Most of these cases concern questions of citizenship and passport-related requests. There are documents concerning visa and travel requests, requests to return to Hungary but also certificates of birth, marriage and change of religion. Other documents concern cases of the arrest, internment...