Overview
- Description
- Selected records of Hungarian banks and insurance companies: how they implemented anti-Jewish regulations during the Horthy regime, personnel practices, confiscation of assets, responses to claims of Jewish customers. Postwar files focus on claims filed by customers whose assets were seized or employees who had lost their jobs.
- Date
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inclusive:
1936-1950
- 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
- Magyar Földhitelintézet
Els? Általános Biztosító Társaság
Biztosító Intézetek Országos Szövetsége
Fonciére Általános Biztosító Intézetek - Reference
- USHMM Archives, RG-52.000, Randolph Braham Collection.
USHMM Archives, RG-39.005M, Records of the 8th Gendarmerie District, Kassa, Hungary (MOL Z 936)
USHMM Archives, RG-39.019M, Records of various financial institutions (MOL Z)
USHMM Archives, RG-39.020M, Records of Hungarian General Credit Bank Co. Personnel and Organizational Departments (MOL Z 53)
USHMM Archives, RG-39.023M, Magyar Leszámitoló és Pénzváltó Bank Rt. Személyzeti Osztály (MOL Z 68)
USHMM Archives, RG-39.026M, Center of Financial Institutions of Hungary (MOL Z 91-93, etc.)
USHMM Archives, RG-39.027M, The National Land Mortgage Bank (MOL Z 133, etc.)
USHMM Archives, RG-39.029M, Hungarian-Italian Bank, Secretariat (MOL Z 77)
USHMM Archives, RG-39.030M, Hungarian-Italian Bank. Personnel Department (MOL Z 83)
USHMM Archives, RG-39.031M, Savings and Credits Institute for the Economy, Co. (MOL Z 89)
USHMM Archives, RG-39.032M, Selected Records of the Hungarian Saving Bank's Central Mortgage Bank (MOL Z 105)
USHMM Archives, RG-39.033M, First Home Saving Bank of pest City (MOL Z 100)
USHMM Archives, RG-39.039M, Records of the National Land Mortgage Bank of Hungary (MOL Z)
Braham, R. L.The Politics of Genocide. The Holocaust in Hungary. I-II. New York: Columbia University Press, 1994.
Physical Details
- Language
- Hungarian
- Genre/Form
- Registers. Questionnaires. Indexes.
- Extent
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29,149 digital images : JPEG ; 51.8 GB.
8 microfilm reels (digitized) ; 16 mm.
- System of Arrangement
- The system of arrangement of the source repository has been preserved in the microfilmed reels. Arranged by subjects of various record group, MOL Z, and alphabetically by a name of individuals claiming for compensation.
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--Confiscations and contributions--Hungary. World War, 1939-1945--Claims--Germany (West)--History. Restitution and indemnification claims (1933-)--Registers. Reparations for historical injustices--Germany--History. Jews--Hungary--Claims--Registers. Holocaust survivors--Hungary--Registers. Banks and banking--Records and correspondence--Government policy--Hungary--20th century. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Hungary--Sources.
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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Magyar Országos Levéltár
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Source of acquisition is the Magyar Országos Levéltár, MOL (Hungarian National Archives), Files Z 121, Z 889, Z 1403, Z 169, Z 163, Z 170, Z 171-172, Z 1260. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum received the filmed collection via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum International Archival Programs Division in 2011.
- Special Collection
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Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2022-07-28 17:49:55
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