The Hungarian Occupation of the Vienna Award Territory in Czechoslovakia, produced in Hungary, 1938, Seized Enemy Records. Archduke Joseph and Count Esterhazy accompany troops and planes commanded by Admiral Horthy into Leva, Locensc and Kassa as crowds cheer. Local citizens welcome occupation officials. Czech signs are painted out. Hungarian gendarmes assume police duties.

This is an authentic personal report about the activities of the Halutz underground movement during the German occupation in 1944. it describes the activities and the struggle of the Zionist resistance. תרגום של: נאבקנו למען החיים. 216 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Copyright Holder: Magyar Országos Levéltár

A catalogue of the permanent exhibition of the Hungarian National Museum in the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, opened on 15 April 2004. In the format of an album, presents the photographs in the exhibition with accompanying pages of explanation. They deal with the Hungarian forced labor service, the German occupation, the expropriation of Jewish assets, the ghettoization and deportations, Hungarian ...

Records of the Hungarian Consulate General in Amsterdam, the capital city of Netherlands contain considerable material concerning Hungarian Jews, especially from the period 1938 to 1944, the era of anti-Jewish laws in Hungary and the Nazi occupation and the Holocaust in the Netherlands. Relevant parts of the collection include in large quantities citizenship cases and visa-related documents of the ...

Miklós Horthy, statesman of Hungary, and Hitler walk up a grand staircase towards the camera. Other men follow behind them. German soldiers move through the road on a tank. A crowd watches. More trucks and tanks drive along the road. Soldiers look out at the Danube, a statue on the left side of the frame. The chain bridge spans the river in the background.

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. ...

The Andor Gergely and Lajos Kenéz papers consist of records documenting the lives, medical careers, relatives, and persecution of Andor Gergely and Lajos Kenéz in Oradea as well as wartime and postwar Hungarian printed materials. Andor Gergely and Lajos Kenéz records include biographical materials, student records, correspondence, and legal records documenting Gergely’s and Kenéz’s relatives, educations, ...

A film by József Herczog. As an amateur filmmaker, Herczog filmed the streets of Budapest during the German occupation of Hungary in autumn 1944 and captured a record of his salon business, the dedication of the bomb shelter in cellar of the “yellow star house” where he lived and over 50% of the tenants were Jewish, Hungarian soldiers, an evacuation, and bomb damage. Title card: “Filmezte es osszeallitotta: ...

Replacing financial districts of the Habsburg-era administration operating directly under the imperial Ministry of Finances, the modern-era financial directorates in Hungary were established by Act XXVIII of 1889 (modified by Act XI of 1909 and Act IV of 1924). Headed by a financial director appointed by the head of state, financial directorates operated in the seats of counties and were subordinated ...

Ottó Komoly (Hebrew name: Natan-Zeev Kahan) was born in Budapest in 1892; by profession he was an engineer. In 1940 he was elected Deputy Chairman of the Magyar Cionista Szövetség, and in 1941, he was elected as its Chairman. In 1943, the Budapesti Mentőbizottság (Budapest Relief and Rescue Committee) was established in Budapest and Komoly served as its chairman. In this capacity, he was involved with ...

This body of documents holds the records of the National Office of Hungarian Israelites. Its elements with relevance to the history of antisemitism and the Holocaust range from 1939 to 1945 and include: documents regarding the organization’s responses to the anti-Jewish legislation, such as appeals and petitions written to the Hungarian governmental and legislative authorities; correspondence with ...

Collection consists of a series of documents, relating to Kertész's service in the Austro-Hungarian army during World War I, and as a reservist following that war, his conscription as a forced laborer in the early 1940s, his later exemption from such work, and his role as a teacher at a Jewish secondary school in Budapest.

P.31 - Collection of Ottó (Natan) Komoly, Chairman of the Magyar Cionista Szövetség (Hungarian Zionist Organization), 1941-1944
 
 Biography of Ottó Komoly:
 Ottó Komoly (Hebrew name: Natan-Zeev Kahan) was born in Budapest in 1892; by profession he was an engineer. In 1940 he was elected Deputy Chairman of the Magyar Cionista Szövetség, and in 1941, he was elected as its Chairman. In ...

Copyright Holder: United States. National Archives and Records Administration

Photocopies of documents related to Ference (Franz) Hamori, during and after German occupation of Hungary. Includes copy of his Swedish "Schutzpass," and postwar documentation attesting to what had happened to Hamori while in hiding in Budapest, as well as the fate of his wife, who was deported and died of dysentery at Ravensbrück. Hungarian with English translations.

The approximately 7 000 camp prisoner registry cards (the so called Häftlingspersonalkarte) that can be found at the Hungarian Jewish Archive contain detailed personal information on prisoners of Mauthausen concentration camp and its subcamps. The cards provide the following pieces of information: name of the prisoner, date of birth, place of birth, previous occupation, address, religion, citizenship, ...

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 ...

O.84 - Documentation gathered in preparation of the "Pinkas HaKehillot, Encyclopedia of Jewish Communities, Hungary" published by Yad Vashem
 
 The ""Pinkas HaKehillot, Encyclopedia of Jewish Communities, Hungary" Project and a history of the Record Group:
 
 "Pinkas HaKehillot, Encyclopedia of Jewish Communities, Hungary", which was published in 1975 was the third volume in the ...

Genocide in the Carpathians presents the history of Subcarpathian Rus', a multiethnic and multireligious borderland in the heart of Europe. This society of Carpatho-Ruthenians, Jews, Magyars, and Roma disintegrated under pressure of state building in interwar Czechoslovakia and, during World War II, from the onslaught of the Hungarian occupation. Charges of "foreignness" and disloyalty to the Hungarian ...

The fonds contains documents pertaining to the Jews living in villages in part of the district that was annexed to the Hungarian Kingdom. These documents include data on the dissolution of Jewish societies and the removal of the city physician in Levice from 1938. Files of 1939 then document the restrictions on the businesses of Jewish merchants after the adoption of the Second Jewish Law. The fonds ...

Copyright Holder: Marianne Szegedy-Maszak

The collection can only be researched through the individual perusal of the files.