Overview
- Description
- The collection consists of reports, decrees, correspondence, memoranda, and other records of the Presidential Section of the Ministry of Defense, pertaining to its efforts to respond to the requirements of the Second Anti-Jewish Law and other regulations that discriminated against Hungarian Jews. Files include documents pertaining to how to identify Jewish personnel, disciplinary actions taken against them, and the transfer of Jewish military personnel to the labor service system. In addition to Jewish personnel, however, the records also contain files regarding disciplinary actions taken against members of non-Jewish religious organizations, such as Jehovah’s Witnesses, Seventh Day Adventists, and Nazarenes, as well as files on Roma and Sinti, and Polish prisoners-of-war assigned to the labor service system.
- Alternate Title
- Magyar Kiràlyi Honvèdelmi Minisztèrium, Elnöki A osztàly-elnöki sorozat
- Date
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inclusive:
1938-1941
- 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. Honve?delmi Miniszte?rium
Physical Details
- Language
- Hungarian
- Genre/Form
- Reports. Memorandums. Registers.
- Extent
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26 microfilm reels ; 35 mm.
- System of Arrangement
- The system of arrangement of the source repository has been preserved in the microfilmed reels. Arrangement is generally chronological, and then subdivided by record type and series.
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 War History Archives
- Copyright Holder
- Hadtörténelmi Levéltár és Irattár
Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Hungary. Jews--Legal status, laws, etc.--Hungary. Jewish soldiers--Hungary. Jewish property--Romania--Transylvania. Jewish property--Czechoslovakia--Ruthenia. World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners of war--Polish--Registers. Jehovah's Witnesses--Nazi persecution--Hungary--History--Registers. Romanies--Persecutions--Hungary--History--Registers. Nazarenes (Church of the Nazarene)--Persecutions--Hungary--History--Registers. Antisemitism--History--20th century. Executive departments.
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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Hadtörténelmi Levéltár és Irattár
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Source of acquisition is the Hadtörténelmi Levéltár és Irattár Budapest (Historical and Institutional Archives of Military History). The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's International Archives Project acquired the duplicated records from the Historical and Institutional Archives of Military History. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the microfilms in Oct. 2002.
- Special Collection
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Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2024-01-31 09:21:58
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn511901
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