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Hungary Werfen ("Gold") Train and other selected U.S. documents related to Hungary

Document | Digitized | Accession Number: 2009.2 | RG Number: RG-67.025

Overview

Description: Contains documents from various U.S. government agencies about the “Gold Train” or “Werfen Train,” which members of the Arrow Cross Party and officials of the Hungarian National Bank packed with looted Jewish valuables (mostly from Miskilc, Pecs, and Gyor) and sent across the border into Austria in March 1945. (This was not the only such train.) Although some items were pilfered en route, the U.S. Armed Forces captured most and stored them in a warehouse in Austria. U.S. personnel and agencies pilfered (or “borrowed” without returning) further property, and the remainder has been the subject of complicated litigation. The collection also includes considerable documentation about such matters as Allied postwar restitution policies and relations with Hungary.
Date: inclusive: 1944-1968

Physical Details

Language: German English
Extent: 3,429 digital images : JPEG ; 3.38 GB.
System of Arrangement: Arranged in numerical order by NARA record group: 43, 59, 60, 84, 107, 153,208, 260, 319, 353, and 407.

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Conditions on Access: This material can only be accessed in a Museum reading room or other on-campus viewing station. There are no additional access restrictions to this material.
Conditions on Use: To the best of the Museum's knowledge, there are no known copyright restrictions on the material(s) in this collection, or the material is in the public domain. You do not require further permission from the Museum to use this material.
Copyright Holder: United States. National Archives and Records Administration

Keywords & Subjects

Topical Term: Holocaust victims--Hungary. Jewish property--Hungary--History--20th century. World War,1939 -1945--Confiscations and contributions--Hungary. Jews--Persecutions--Hungary.
Geographic Name: Hungary--Ethnic relations. Hungary--Politics and government--1933-1945.

Administrative Notes

Holder of Originals: United States. National Archives and Records Administration
Legal Status: Permanent Collection
Provenance: The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's International Archives Project filmed various record groups from the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) . The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received a hard drive with digital records in Dec. 2008.

Record last modified:: 2022-07-28 17:49:56
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