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1. Three Hungarian Jews sit on a park bench in Budapest.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 67750
Date:
Circa 1940 - 1945
…Three Hungarian Jews sit on a park bench in Budapest.…
2. 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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3. 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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4. Portrait of an Hungarian Jew dressed in the uniform of the Arrow Cross.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 94470
Date:
1944 - 1945
…Portrait of an Hungarian Jew dressed in the uniform of the Arrow Cross.…
5. The corpses of Jews in the courtyard of the Dohany Street Synagogue.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 02437
Date:
January 1945 - February 1945
…The corpses of Jews in the courtyard of the Dohany Street Synagogue.…
6. Corpses of Jews in the courtyard of the Dohany Street Synagogue.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 02435
Date:
January 1945 - February 1945
…Corpses of Jews in the courtyard of the Dohany Street Synagogue.…
7. The corpses of Jews lie in the courtyard of the Dohany Street Synagogue.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 02438
Date:
January 1945 - February 1945
…The corpses of Jews lie in the courtyard of the Dohany Street Synagogue.…
8. Corpses of Jews in the courtyard of the Dohany Street Synagogue.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 02434
Date:
January 1945 - February 1945
…Corpses of Jews in the courtyard of the Dohany Street Synagogue.…
9. Ferenc Hajba diary
Document | Accession Number: 2016.578.1
Date:
inclusive: 1945
…The collection includes a diary and notes kept by Ferenc Hajba, a non-Jewish witness to the persecution of Jews in Hungary.…
10. Pollak family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2000.555.1
Date:
inclusive: 1909-1951
… separate state under the leadership of Jozef Tiso. In the summer of 1941anti-Jewish legislation was introduced and Jews were not allowed to own businesses…
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 … Vera Markbreit’s grandparents. 30. Photographic postcard of a group of Slovakian Jews during their forced labor service in the Slovak Labor Battalion…
11. Magyarországi Zsidók Deportáltakat Gondozó Országos Bizottsága (DEGOB) card file collection
Document | Accession Number: 2005.54 | RG Number: RG-68.060M
Date:
inclusive: 1945-1946
… Zsidók Deportáltakat Gondozó Országos Bizottsága/National Committee of Hungarian Jews Supporting Returning Deportees). The individual cards usually…
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 … Jews Supporting Returning Deportees). The individual cards usually carry the name and personal data of the client, and details about the support she/he…
12. Válas family collection
Document | Accession Number: 2005.168.1
Date:
inclusive: 1944-1945
… deportations of the Jews from Alsógöd (Hungary, 8km north of Budapest). Collection includes typed transcripts of the documents and a note written by the donor…
13. Records relating to the investigation of Giorgio Perlasca by the United States Holocaust Memorial Council
Document | Accession Number: 1991.016 | RG Number: RG-20.004.01
Date:
1944-1990
… Spain, in December 1944. During this time, he worked for the establishment of several safehouses in Budapest for sheltering Jews under Spanish protection…
14. Records related to Hungarian Jewish communities
Document | Accession Number: 2007.241 | RG Number: RG-39.013M
Date:
inclusive: 1944-1956
Alternate Title:
Levéltári gyűjtemények Magyar Országos Levéltárból átkerült iratok Joint Magyarországi Képviselete iratai
Special Collection:
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
… Committee Taking Care of Hungarian Jewish Deportees), an index to the DEGOB protocols, documents of the Central Council of the Hungarian Jews, records related…
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 … Jewish Deportees), an index to the DEGOB protocols, documents of the Central Council of the Hungarian Jews, records related to the registration of the…
15. Fried family papers
Document | Accession Number: 1989.227 | RG Number: RG-10.019
Date:
inclusive: 1944-1957
… certificates, travel passes, and falsified forms acquired by Elizabeth Fried in order to show that she was a Roman Catholic instead of a Jew. Other documents…
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 … by Elizabeth Fried in order to show that she was a Roman Catholic instead of a Jew. Other documents certify that Jozef Fried was a prisoner in Nazi…
16. Leszek Grzywaczewski photographs
Document | Accession Number: 1992.38
Date:
inclusive: 1943-1946
…. They were ordered to protect buildings outside the ghetto, but to stand by and watch the Jewish ghetto burn. His family saved a number of Jews including…
17. Gabriel Schutzengel papers
2005.128.2 Book Enclosure 1 24
Document | Accession Number: 2005.128.2
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1997
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… sister, as well as details about the fate of Jews in Hungary, particularly in Komárom and Budapest. Gabriel’s memoir, titled "Machzor” is typewritten in…
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 … single series. The documents are arranged chronologically. Indexing terms Schutzengel, Gabriel. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Jews--Hungary. Forced labor…
18. 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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19. Rezső Rudolf Kasztner collection
2017.526.2 Box 1 Folder 5 Image 59
Document | Accession Number: 2017.526.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1944-2015
bulk: 1944-1979
… Zionists who helped smuggle Jews into Hungary from German-occupied countries. After Germany occupied Hungary in 1944, the Committee shifted to negotiating…
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 … other senior Nazi leaders on behalf of the committee in an attempt to secure the liberation of hundreds of Hungarian Jews. Includes an early draft report…
20. 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…