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1. Groszman family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2016.95.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-2010
… Margit’s sister Helén’s (1900-1944) husband Géza Abelesz (1896-1944). Their business was forced to close in 1940 after new laws prohibited Jews from the…
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 … was forced to close in 1940 after new laws prohibited Jews from the agricultural commodities business. The family moved to Budapest in Fall 1941. In…
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2. Bleier and Weisz families papers
2016.162.1 Box 1 Folder 8 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2016.162.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1898-2005
… House which sheltered around 2000 Jews until Budapest was liberated by the Russians in February 1945. After the war, she was reunited with her family who…
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 … 2,000 Jews until Budapest was liberated by the Russians in February 1945. After the war, she was reunited with her family who all survived. Due to…
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3. Selected records of the Executive Office of the Hungarian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MOL K 148)
Document | Accession Number: 2006.262 | RG Number: RG-39.009M
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1944
Special Collection:
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
… (e.g., of Békés county); the citizenship of Jews; the 1941 deportation of “stateless” Jews; exemptions of Jewish doctors from anti-Jewish measures…
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 … Ságvári) and communities (e.g., of Békés county); the citizenship of Jews; the 1941 deportation of “stateless” Jews; exemptions of Jewish doctors from…
4. Selected records from Romanian diplomatic missions
Document | Accession Number: 2004.561 | RG Number: RG-25.020
Date:
inclusive: 1920-1950
bulk: 1935-1945
Special Collection:
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
…), Lisbon (Portugal), London (UK), Paris (France). The Washington records show the concern of American Jews about the treatment of Jews in Romania in the 1920…
5. Finland Ministry of Foreign Affairs Archives records
Document | Accession Number: 2001.36 | RG Number: RG-29.001M
Date:
inclusive: 1929-1950
… Jews, including files on the "Jewish question," and Finnish emigration policy. Other miscellaneous documents include personal name lists of Jewish and…
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 …, August 2002 2 Finnish Foreign Ministry files on various matters related to Jews, including files on the "Jewish question", and the Finnish emigration…
6. Forschungsdokumentationen Dr. theol. Theo Tschuy
Document | Accession Number: 2012.281 | RG Number: RG-58.021
Date:
inclusive: 1920-2003
Alternate Title:
Research papers of Dr. theol. Theo Tschuy (1990 - 2003)
… certificates (endorsed by the British authorities), to Jews seeking to escape from Hungary. In his efforts to shield Hungarian Jewry from persecution, Lutz also…
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 …: Carl Lutz und die Juden von Budapest, Zürich: NZZ libro, 1995. Tschuy, Theo: Dangerous diplomacy. The story of Carl Lutz, rescuer of 62000 Hungarian Jews…
7. Maria Madi diaries
2013.264.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2013.264.1
Date:
inclusive: 1914-1967
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… describes the invasion and occupation of Budapest and what she saw and heard of the war. She also writes extensively about the persecution of the Jews…
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 … constant air raids, intense deprivation, and what she knows and sees of the ongoing persecutions against Jews. She also references a young boy and his aunt…
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8. Piroska Berki and Gustave Balog family papers
2000.16 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2000.16
Date:
inclusive: 1873-1982
… discrimination she faced as a Jew living in Hungary. Gustave’s memoirs go into great detail about the family’s historical background. Gustave was a cousin of…
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 … discrimination she faced as a Jew living in Hungary. Gustave’s memoirs go into great detail about the family’s historical background. Gustave was a cousin of…
9. Rohony family papers
2011.377.1 Box 1 Folder 5 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 2011.377.1
Date:
inclusive: 1937-1957
bulk: 1944
… Jew, was forced into the Hungarian labor battalions and taken to Transylvania. After a little over a year of labor there, János was moved to a work…
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 … hundred employees producing chemicals and plastics. In the summer of 1943 János, a Jew, was forced into the Hungarian labor battalions and taken to…
10. Almanacs
Object | Accession Number: 1999.282.6
Date:
publication/distribution: 1939
Title:
Ararát évkönyv zsidó Magyar almanach
Subtitle:
AZ 1939 (5699-5700) évre
… 1941. Modeled after Germany’s Nuremberg Laws they defined Jews in racial terms, excluded Jews from various professions, and severely restricted their…
11. Pick family photograph collection
1999.282.13 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 65
Document | Accession Number: 1999.282.13
Date:
inclusive: circa 1912-1946
… 1941. Modeled after Germany’s Nuremberg Laws they defined Jews in racial terms, excluded Jews from various professions, and severely restricted their…
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 …’s anti-Jewish laws were passed between 1938 and 1941. Modeled after Germany’s Nuremberg Laws they defined Jews in racial terms, excluded Jews from various…
12. Dezső Kertész papers
Document | Accession Number: 2011.456.2
Date:
inclusive: 1918-1945
…Jews--Hungary--Budapest.…
13. Peach nightgown decorated with embroidery owned by a Hungarian Jewish woman
2018.409.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.409.4
Date:
use: approximately 1933-2001
… from 1935, which defined Jews in racial terms. They excluded them from various professions, restricted their opportunities in economic life, and stripped…
14. Knit cardigan with decorative buttons and lining owned by a Hungarian Jewish woman
2018.409.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.409.2
Date:
use: approximately 1933-2001
… from 1935, which defined Jews in racial terms. They excluded them from various professions, restricted their opportunities in economic life, and stripped…
15. Peach chemise with black and white floral appliques saved by a Hungarian Jewish refugee
2003.198.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.198.5
Date:
received: 1934
use: 1934-1946
… goods to sell and they had to let go of their help. There were constant air raids and Anna and Judit had to go to a separate Jews only, less secure bomb…
16. Peach chemise with floral embroidery saved by a Hungarian Jewish refugee
2003.198.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.198.4
Date:
received: 1934
use: 1934-1946
… goods to sell and they had to let go of their help. There were constant air raids and Anna and Judit had to go to a separate Jews only, less secure bomb…
17. Pink chemise with corded, floral lace appliques owned by a Hungarian Jewish woman
2018.409.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.409.3
Date:
use: approximately 1933-2001
… from 1935, which defined Jews in racial terms. They excluded them from various professions, restricted their opportunities in economic life, and stripped…
18. Lace-trimmed headband or cap owned by a Hungarian chambermaid
2018.409.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.409.5
Date:
use: approximately 1933-1944
… from 1935, which defined Jews in racial terms. They excluded them from various professions, restricted their opportunities in economic life, and stripped…
19. Mandel family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2016.581.12
Date:
inclusive: 1910-2001
undated: 
…. Manny’s father was based at the Rumbach Street synagogue. After the Hungarian state issued anti-Jewish laws in 1938, Jews were rigorously persecuted in…
20. Nachlass Hans Weyermann (1912-1985)
Document | Accession Number: 2011.218 | RG Number: RG-58.014
Date:
inclusive: 1917-1987
… 100,000 Jews in Budapest and prevented the deportation ordered by Adolf Eichmann of ca. 20,000 children to the extermination camps. After the war, from…