Consists primarily of correspondence between the Hungarian Embassy in Bucharest and the Hungarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Budapest. Included are summaries of Romanian radio broadcasts; reports on atrocities in Romania against Hungarians before 1941; and a situation report on the Romanian armed forces. Other topics include protests of Romanian Jews against having to wear the yellow star, Romanian ...

http://www.pestmlev.hu/data/files/173564797.pdf

The collection includes three diaries written between 1942 and 1945 by an unidentified Jewish woman, originally from Brno, Czechoslovakia, but living in Budapest and Subotica. She was arrested by the Hungarian and German occupation forces in Serbia, where she sought refuge, and was sent to a succession of concentration camps and forced labor sites between the summer of 1944 and the spring of 1945. ...

Copyright Holder: United States. National Archives and Records Administration

Attila Seres, ed. Magyar Királyi Postatakarékpénztár iratai. Budapest. MOL, 2003.

Inventory (typed), author: Štefan Eliáš, 1973.

Next to various levels of public administration and the Hungarian police forces, the Hungarian gendarmerie 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 ...

Lists were compiled between April and August 1944.

According to the first Vienna Arbitration in November 1938, Moldava nad Bodvou (in Hungarian Szepsi) was annexed to the Hungarian Kingdom. The Notary Office of Moldava nad Bodvou was responsible for the management of the local agenda of Moldava nad Bodvou and its neighboring locality, Drienovec (in Hungarian Somodi). According to the Hungarian census of 1941, there were 200 Israelites who lived in ...

Consists of a copy of "Shari: a true story" written by Shirley Lebovitz, formerly Shari Weisberger, in 1946 and translated from Hungarian to English by Lebovitz's daughter, Magda Weisberger Willinger, in 1981. The story describes the survival of Lebovitz and her daughter during the Holocaust and their return to a normal life after World War II. "Shari" includes information about the treatment of Czech ...

Following the First Vienna Award the town of Levice (Hungarian: Léva) was occupied by Hungarian forces on 10 November 1938. Based on the order of the military command Hungarian army established the mayor of the town. On 9 March 1939 the municipality council of Levice discussed and agreed upon the decision to change the town of Levice to the city with the Municipality Office, the County City (Hungarian: ...

Documents, datebooks, correspondence, V-mails, photograph albums, loose photos, maps, scrip, souvenir materials (including a "Heidelberg" letter opener), notebooks, reparations and restitution papers related to Irving Gluck and his family; also includes a wooden box made by a German POW who he was guarding; Irving Gluck's embroidered tefillin pouch and pair of tefillin, a scroll of Esther, dog tags, ...

Miksa Rottenberg (Max, 1902-?) was born in Dés, Austria-Hungary (now Dej, Romania) to Albert Dov (1868-1943) and Anna Rozia Dina Rosmann (Rozman, 1879-1944) Rottenberg. Anna was born to Efraim and Sara Rosmann in Falstin, Austria-Hungary (now Falsztyn, Poland.) Anna had six siblings: Shlomo, Bernhard Jakob Dov, Khain Mordekhai Markus, Hermin Khava, Rosa Rakhel, and Braindel Blanka. Albert was born ...

The documents within the Paul Fisch collection were created by a Hungarian student group in Zurich, Switzerland. The report includes a summary of The Auschwitz Protocol, also known as the Vrba-Wetzler Report, which contains eyewitness accounts of the Auschwitz concentration camp. Also included is a report of the state of Hungarian Jews in 1944, and a document that describes the process for growing ...

The Martin Weiss papers consists of identification documents collected by Martin Weiss in post-war Czechoslovakia. The documents were collected by Weiss after his release from the Gunskirchen concentration camp, a sub-camp of Mauthausen concentration camp, and were intended to be used for Weiss’ immigration to the United States.

Printed inventory, Author: Ján Turan, Research room of the archive.

Large, two pocket rucksack used by Elek Brust while a forced laborer from 1941 and 1943-1944 in Hungary. He then used it while living in hiding with his family during the German occupation through February 1945. Elek was a manufacturer and prominent member of the Jewish community in Budapest where he lived with his wife Lilly and young daughter Eva. In 1941, Jewish males were required to do forced ...

The Gendarmerie as armed police forces under the command of the Ministry of Defense existed in the Bohemian lands since the time of the Austrian-Hungarian Empire. With the founding of Czechoslovakia 1918 the Gendarmerie was subordinated to the Ministry of the Interior and took over the main police duties in the state from local crime investigations until police air patrols against German and Hungarian ...

Inventory available for parts of the collection.

Contains photographs from the collection of Henri Levenheck, including a photograph of Paul Levenheck, a Jewish member of the FFI (Forces Francaises de l'Interieur), and photographs of children, including Henri, who spent the war in the care of the OSE (Oeuvre de Secours aux Enfants). Also includes one copy of a postcard from Ephraim Levenheck to Dora Asher (the donor's parents) on 25 Jun. 1916 when ...

Budapest after liberation by Soviet forces. Quality varies. A Soviet soldier writes "Budapest" in Russian on a sign. Shots of burning, partially destroyed buildings. A corpse lies in the foreground. More shots of corpses. Soviet soldiers walk across a snow-covered square. Soviet and Romanian (?) officers meet and confer. Soviet soldiers with captured flags. Soviet soldiers arrest Hungarian soldiers. ...

A registry book is available for the records from 1938. The bulk of the material, however, requires item-level research.

Item-level descriptions are available.