Overview
- Description
- Contains monthly police reports for more than sixty cities; Intelligence on rightists (e.g., Arrow Cross) and leftists (e.g., Social-Democrats and Communists); various nationalities (Ruthenians, Germans, Slovaks, and others); religious sects (e.g., Jehovah’s Witnesses); and Jews, including refugees from Slovakia; Secret reports on public opinion generally and among suspect groups in particular about political, military, and economic affairs.
- Date
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inclusive:
1941-1944
- Credit Line
- Forms part of the Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. This archive consists of documentation whose reproduction and/or acquisition was made possible with funding from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
- Collection Creator
- Hungary. Belu?gyminiszte?rium.
- Reference
- USHMM Archives, RG-52.000, Randolph Braham Collection.
USHMM Archives, RG-39.010M, Selected Records of the Hungarian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MOL K 149 BM res.), 1938-1944.
USHMM Archives, RG-39.013M, Records Relating to Hungarian Jewish Communities.
Schmidt, Maria. Provincial Police Reports: New Insight into Hungarian Jewish History, 1941-1944. Yad Vashem Studies, Jerusalem, 1988.pp. 233-267.
Physical Details
- Language
- Hungarian
- Genre/Form
- Reports. Memorandums. Circulars. Correspondence.
- Extent
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8,203 digital images : JPEG ; 12.2 GB.
5 microfilm reels (partially digitized) ; 16 mm.
- System of Arrangement
- The system of arrangement of the source repository has been preserved in the microfilmed reels. Arranged mainly in chronological order. Within the chronological arrangement organized alphabetically by the names of the localities.
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- This material can only be accessed in a Museum reading room or other on-campus viewing stations. No other access restrictions apply to this material.
- Conditions on Use
- Fair use only. According to the terms of the United States-Hungary Agreement, personal data of an individual mentioned in the records must not be published sooner than 30 years following the death of the person concerned, or if the year of death is unknown, for 90 years following the birth of the person concerned, or if both dates are unknown, for 60 years following the date of issue of the archival material concerned. "Personal data" is defined as any data that can be related to a certain natural person ("person concerned"), and any conclusion that can be drawn from such data about the person concerned. The full text of the Agreement is available at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives Reference Desk.
- Copyright Holder
- Magyar Országos Levéltár
Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Hungary. Police administration--Hungary--History--20th century. Jews--Legal status, laws, etc.--Hungary--20th century. Jewish communists--Hungary--History--20th century. Jews--Persecutions--Hungary--History. Antisemitism--History--20th century. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Hungary.
- Geographic Name
- Hungary--Politics and government--1918-1945.
- Corporate Name
- Nyilaskeresztes Párt
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
-
Magyar Országos Levéltár
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Source of acquisition is the Magyar Országos Levéltár, MOL (Hungarian National Archives), Record Group MOL K 149 PTI . The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum received the filmed collection via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum International Archival Programs Division in June 2006.
- Special Collection
-
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2023-08-25 12:39:49
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