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Records related to Hungarian Jewish communities

Document | Digitized | Accession Number: 2007.241 | RG Number: RG-39.013M

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    Overview

    Description
    The collection consists of written recollections, protocols of the Magyarországi Zsidók Deportáltakat Gondozó Országos Bizottsága, DEGOB (National Committee Taking Care of Hungarian Jewish Deportees), an index to the DEGOB protocols, documents of the Central Council of the Hungarian Jews, records related to the registration of the Jewish communities, documents of the countryside ghettos, Holocaust-related name lists, lists of victims, prisoner registry cards, casualty cards, documents related to labor service, deportation of Hungarian Jews, rescue, resistance, inventories of the confiscated items and objects, tracing and compensation, antisemitic measures of the authorities; documents certifying labor service terms, personal documents from the Holocaust era, personal legacies, recollections, diaries, documents of the Hungarian Institute for Research of the Jewish Question, trial records, antisemitic publications, news clippings from various newspapers, concentration camps profiles, miscellaneous Holocaust-related documents, reports of status of inhabitants of Budapest, a report of Sándor Náthán, envoy of the Jewish Agency for Palestine, supplementary materials, documents related to the Central Jewish Council donated to the Archives in 2007, documents of the Jewish communities of Buda and Pest, and the Hungarian countryside. The accretion of the collection consists of documents of the Central Council of Hungarian Jews; miscellaneous documents of the Pest Jewish Community (including lists of internees transported to the Ukraine by the Hungarians in the framework of the so-called Kamenets Podolsk deportations of July 1941); Documents of the National Representation of Hungarian Israelites, Documents of the National Office of Hungarian Israelites (including post-war correspondence regarding efforts to reconstruct life in the countryside), and Documents of the Budapest Jewish Community.
    Alternate Title
    Levéltári gyűjtemények Magyar Országos Levéltárból átkerült iratok Joint Magyarországi Képviselete iratai
    Date
    inclusive:  1944-1956
    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
    Magyarorsza?gi Zsido?k Deporta?ltakat Gondozo? Orsza?gos Bizottsa?g
    Reference
    USHMM Archives, RG-52.000, Randolph Braham Collection.

    USHMM Archives, RG-68.060M, Magyarországi Zsidók Deportáltakat Gondozó Országos Bizottsága (DEGOB) card file collection.

    USHMM Archives, RG-68.101M, Collection of Testimonies Relating to Hungary (YV O15E).

    Gonda, M.E. (Moshe Elijahu). A Debreceni Zsidók Száz Ěve : a Mártirhalállt Halt Debreceni és Környékbeli Zsidók Emlékére. [Haifa] : Debreceni Zsidók Emlékbizottsága Kiadása, [1970?]

    Braham, R. L.The Politics of Genocide. The Holocaust in Hungary. I-II. New York: Columbia University Press, 1994.

    Braham, R.L. and Pók. A., Eds. The Holocaust in Hungary Fifty Years Later. New York: Columbia University Press, 1997.

    Horváth, Rita. A Magyarországi Zsidók Deportáltakat Gondozó Országos Bizottsága (DEGOB) története. Budapest: Magyar Zsidó Levéltár, 1997.

    Physical Details

    Extent
    169 microfilm reels ; 16 mm.
    System of Arrangement
    The system of arrangement of the source repository has been preserved in the microfilmed reels, and is generally organized by subjects, however same subjects may overlaps within microfilm reels. Arranged in main 26 subject series: 1. Protocols (testimonies) of the Magyarországi Zsidók Deportáltakat Gondozó Országos Bizottsága, DEGOB (National Committee Taking Care of Hungarian Jewish Deportees) (Reel 1-5a); 2. Central Council of the Hungarian Jews (Reel 6-9; 63-65; 78-82, 110-114, 123, 129-133); 3. Countryside ghettos and labor services. Related name lists (Reel 10-24); 4. Deportation of Hungarian Jews and antisemitic publications. Related name lists (Reel 25); 5. Recollections, diaries (Reel 26-27); 6.Tracing, compensation, trials, anti-Semitic publications, name lists of Jews by localities, and miscellaneous documents (Reel 28-32); 7. Jewish community organizations. Countryside communities (Reel 33-45; 106-108); 8. Holocaust-related name lists. Lists of victims (Reel 57-58); 9. National Jewish Aid Organization (Reel 72); 10. International Organizations. World Jewish Congress (Reel 45-56); 11. Newspaper clipping collection (Reel 45-56, 82-105); 12. Pest Jewish Community. Countryside materials (Reel 58-62; 66-67; 82-105; 115-121; 125-127); 13. Placard and caricature collection (Reel 67); 14. Collections of personal documents and papers (Reel 67-71; 109, 124); 15. Documents of the Rabbinical Seminary of Budapest (Reel 73); 16. American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (Reel 73-77); 17. Budapest Jewish Community (Reel 119-121; 128); 18. Documents of the National Office of Hungarian Israelites (Reel 129-133); 19. Documents of the Central Council of the Hungarian Jews (Reel 134); 20. Documents of the National Office of Hungarian Israelites (Reel 135-143); 21. National Representation of Hungarian Israelites (Reel 144); 22. Documents of the Pest Jewish Community ( Reel 144-150) ; 23. National Jewish Relief Committee (Reel 150); 24..Personal documentary bequests (Reel 150); 25. Countryside Jewish communities: Szeged, Pécs, Szentes, Szarvas, Pestszenterzsébet (Reel 150); 26. Suplementary Series 04: Seperately collected documents related to Holocaust (Reel 151-167). The English language inventory provides detailed descriptions of the contents of the collection according to each microfilm reel and an original archival box number, folder number and descriptions of individual documents within each file, both by the subject label and original archival registration number.

    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
    Reproduction for purpose of publication is prohibited without the prior written consent of the Magyar Zsidó Múzeum és Levéltár. According to the terms of the United States of America and Republic of 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 Archives Reference Desk.

    Copyright Holder
    Magyar Zsidó Múzeum és Levéltár

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    Administrative Notes

    Legal Status
    Permanent Collection
    Provenance
    Source of acquisition is the Magyar Zsidó Múzeum és Levéltár (Jewish Museum and Archives of Hungary). The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum began receiving microfilm copies of this collection in 2007, and has received several increment since then; accretion of 10 microfilm reels accured in August 2018.
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