The documents were probably confiscated by the Hungarian secret services in 1953, when leaders of the Jewish community (e.g., Lajos Stöckler, László Benedek) were imprisoned in the framework of the communist anti-Zionist campaign. From the services the documents were transferred to the Hungarian National Archives. The collection was complemented by a donation of historian Dr László Karsai in 1992. Its reference code and title in the HNA was XXXIII-5-c: National Office of Hungarian Israelites (Magyar Izraeliták Országos Irodája); Ghetto documents (gettó iratok) 1942-1945. The Hungarian National Archives donated the material to the Hungarian Jewish Archives in May 2000.
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The series contains documents of the Jewish Council that were donated to the Hungarian Jewish Archives in 2000. It holds predominantly documents from the turn of 1944-1945 regarding the Budapest ghettos. They include: daily notes of the Jewish Council; papers of the ghetto police; internal correspondence, reports and notes of various departments of the Jewish Council regarding the healthcare and food supply of the “large” ghetto; list of buildings protected by neutral diplomatic legations; a map of the “large” ghetto; and various name lists, such as lists of building commanders, patients of ghetto hospitals and employees of various departments and institutions of the Council. Notable examples include, among others: • decrees regarding the moving together of the Jews of Budapest (June, 1944) and the labor service (1942) • financial documents of the “large” ghetto of Budapest (1944-1945): acknowledgements of receipt; invoices; bills • report on the 1944-1945 activity of the Housing Office of the Central Jewish Council probably written by Rezső Müller, former head of the office (no date, probably 1945) • the Jewish Council’s daily notes on the events in the “large” ghetto of Budapest: November 24,26; December 1,2,3 (photocopy), 26 (photocopy), 1944; hand drawn map of the “large” ghetto of Budapest (1944) • registry of buildings of the “large” ghetto of Budapest (1944) • registry on the houses inhabited by Jews having international diplomatic protection (1944) • petition of the Central Jewish Council to the Hungarian authorities on establishing the “large” ghetto of Budapest (November 19, 1944) • petition of the Central Jewish Council to the Hungarian ministerial commissioner in charge of the ghettoization on establishing the “large” ghetto of Budapest (November 25, 1944) • written orders (szolgálati jegyek) issued by the Arrow Cross authorities • list of addresses of the ghetto institutions (laundries, public kitchens, etc.) • letter of Archbishop Jusztinián Serédi to the Jewish Council • letter to Deputy Police Chief János Solymossy • correspondence between the different organizations of the Central Jewish Council (Housing Department, Ghetto Police, etc,) • documents regarding the healthcare and food supply of the ghetto • documents of the Housing Department (organizational statutes, list of employees, documents of June 1944 moving together of the Budapest Jews, etc.) • documents of the Ghetto Police (list of districts and commanders, organizational statutes, reports, etc.) • list of Jewish patients in the Budapest hospitals; daily notes of the Jewish Council (November 23,25, December 26, 1944) • registry of real estates (houses, apartments) • report of ghetto officers on the life of the ghetto • order of the Funeral Department on burying the dead in the ghetto • hand-drawn map of a tenement block in the “large” ghetto of Budapest • list of Jewish patients in Budapest hospitals • lists of employees of different Jewish institutions (hospitals, public kitchens • lists of Jewish individuals requiring free movement conducts from the German and Hungarian authorities • list of Jewish house commanders • list of Jews drafted for labor in the ghetto (by houses) • note of Pál Villányi on the alleged corruption of the lawyers who were employed by foreign embassies in Budapest during the Holocaust (March 16, 1945) • documents on the rescue activity of the so-called “T” group of the International Red Cross • 15 protocols taken by the National Committee of Attending Deportees (Deportáltakat Gondozó Országos Bizottság) from Holocaust survivors (Protocols no. 319, 321, 934, 391, 3565,135, 3206, 1239, 3062, 355, 193, 3541, three protocols do not have a number) (1945) • report of Ignác Auspitz on the deported Hungarian Jews liberated in German camps (May 24, 1947)
A Magyar Országos Levéltárból származó iratok
A Magyar Országos Levéltárból származó iratok (Documents transferred from the Hungarian National Archives)