Népbíróságtól átvett peres ügyek iratai

People's court (népbíróság) is a term referring to special criminal courts established by the decree of the Interim National Government of Hungary on January 25, 1945. The primary function of people’s courts was to initiate criminal proceedings against the perpetrators of war crimes and the so-called crimes against the people. Their sphere of jurisdiction extended to Hungarian citizens, including the members of the army and law enforcement agencies as well as to foreign citizens captured in or extradited to Hungary. 

When the Hungarian state dissolved the people’s courts in 1949, all the records of the unfinished criminal proceedings were allocated to the Budapest Criminal Court (Budapesti Büntetőtörvényszék). The Budapest Criminal Court was incorporated into the newly established Budapest County Court (Budapesti Megyei Bíróság) on January 1, 1951. Later on, the bulk of the trial materials were taken into the custody of state security organizations. The material was taken to the archives in several phases in the 1970s-1990s.  

Népbíróságtól átvett peres ügyek iratai 

Description prepared by László Csősz. Source: http://bfl.archivportal.hu/id-1159-buntetobiraskodas.html Budapest Főváros Levéltára fondjainak jegyzéke. A magyar állami levéltárak fondjegyzékei. III. köt. Budapest: BFL, 1970. 

The collection contains materials from the late stages of the operation of People's Courts and their trials against war criminals and other defendants charged with political crimes at the time of the Stalinization of Hungary. The accused of these trials from 1949-1950 included various categories of Holocaust perpetrators.  

The collection is arranged by the file numbers of the trials. 

Kenyeres, István- András Sipos, eds. A levéltár iratainak ismertetője. Budapest: BFL, 1997. http://bfl.archivportal.hu/kateg-76-1-leveltari_ismerteto.html Budapest Főváros Levéltára fondjainak jegyzéke. A magyar állami levéltárak fondjegyzékei. III. köt. Budapest: BFL, 1970.