Records of the Hungarian Royal Police Department of Vác, 1942, 1944

http://www.pestmlev.hu/data/files/173564797.pdf The collection holds the survived records of the Police Department of the town of Vác, mostly from the fateful year of 1944. Jewish-related cases are scattered throughout the material and include, but not limited to the following topics: permits and licenses of Jewish individuals and companies, extensions of permits and licenses, including events of communities and social organizations, citizenship and naturalization cases, certificates and residence permits, documents pertaining to the conscription of Jews and the yellow star decree and many other anti-Jewish measures in April 1944, the confiscation of Jewish assets and the ghettoization in May-June 1944, records of offences and violations of anti-Jewish laws and decrees and possibly cases of rescue and mitigation. No restrictions on access Police forces had been operating under the supervision of the municipal authorities before 1920, when the Hungarian Royal State Police was established (Act I of 1920, Governmental Decree no. 5047/1919). Police was the law enforcement agency to maintain order and persecute crime in the urban areas (cities and towns) of Hungary. Police Department of Vác was created in 1920 and was supervised by the Budapest District Superintendent of Police until 1932 and the Provincial Superintendent of Police between 1932 and 1944.