"The series includes Xerox copies of original Jewish Council documentation, predominantly created during the existence of the “large” ghetto in Budapest (November 1944 – January 1945). It contains various, extensive name lists, such as lists of able bodied men broken down by ghetto buildings, lists of ghetto police personnel broken down by ghetto districts; notes, reports, financial and administrative documents of various departments and organizations of the Jewish Council regarding the daily operation of the ghetto; accounts on the number of ghetto tenants as well as the buildings, apartments and rooms of the ghetto; decrees and orders issued by the Jewish Council and the Hungarian authorities. Bulk of the mentioned documentation was created by the ghetto police. Notable documents include, among others: • various name lists compiled in connection with the certificates issued by the Jewish Council: list of the Gentile employees of the Jewish Council, unidentified lists, name list of those employees of the Jewish Council’s Housing Department who live in the large ghetto or would soon move in there, name list of those employees of the Jewish Council’s Housing Department who live in the “small” or “international” ghetto, name list of the employees of the secretariat of the Jewish Council receiving certificate of free movemen, name list of the employees of the Jewish Council’s Department of Burial from Protected Buildings • certificates issued for various individuals indicating the bearers’ positions and tasks assigned by the Jewish Council • correspondence of the ghetto police, the Hungarian authorities, the International Red Cross and the Swedish Red Cross regarding the issuing of certificates to various individuals; blank certificates and certificate forms (partially German) • chart of territorial arrangement and leading staff of the Budapest large ghetto’s administrative system (no date, probably December 1944) • memorandum on the October 11-13, 1944 meeting of certain Jewish Council members and employees regarding the planned establishment of the Department of Deportee Matters in the framework of the Jewish Council • protocols and reports created by various offices and authorities of the Jewish Council on the abuse and atrocities committed in the “large” ghetto of Budapest by Hungarian and German authorities (December 14, 1944 – January 13, 1945) • internal notes of the Central Jewish Council (predominantly created by member of the Council Lajos Stöckler) regarding various issues: conflicts between Budapest Jews possessing a protected status provided by the neutral diplomatic corps and Jews not having this status, structure of the Jewish Council, Gendarme Lieutenant Colonel László Ferenczy, the plans of the Hungarian authorities to renew the already stopped deportations at the end of August 1944, the rescue attempts of Raoul Wallenberg • decrees and orders issued by the Central Jewish Council and various Hungarian authorities (August 23, 1944 – January 11, 1945): order issued by Gendarme Lieutenant Colonel László Ferenczy regarding his sole competence over the Jewish Council; orders of the Arrow Cross authorities regarding various issues (the incarceration of various Jewish individuals, restriction on the entry to and exit from the “large” ghetto) • orders and decrees issued by the Central Jewish Council on various matters regarding the Budapest Jews: creating separate “yellow star houses” for those protected by the Swedish embassy, maintaining the order of the large ghetto, Jews of foreign nationality in the ghetto • various name lists of ghetto tenants (December 1944 – January 1945): list of men capable of work broken down by buildings, compiled by the ghetto authorities, list of Jewish house commanders in various ghetto houses • charts of the number of buildings, apartments and rooms in the large ghetto of Budapest (December 1944) • invoices sent to the Central Jewish Council by building contractor Béla Székely on the renovation works he performed on various buildings (September – November 1944) • equests sent by various Jewish individuals to the Central Jewish Council asking for the Council’s intervention for their or their family’s behalf (September 14 – December 11, 1944) • letters of the Budapest ghetto police to other internal ghetto authorities and the Hungarian police regarding various issues: Jews transported into the ghetto, scattered weapons and mines on the territory of the ghetto (January 1945) • documents regarding the case of member of the Budapest ghetto police Hugó Schalk (January 6, 1945): protocol documenting Schalk’s actions; decree of the ghetto police leadership pertaining to the case • documents regarding the clothing and food supply of the Budapest ghetto police (December 1944 – January 1945): acknowledgements of receipt issued by the members of the ghetto police; inventory of clothing; order issued by the ghetto police to the administrative leadership of ghetto district 7 to hand over food • orders issued by the ghetto police regarding various issues: personnel, supply, security, bombardments, burial of the dead, suicides, etc • reports and protocols issued by the ghetto police regarding the plunder and confiscation of the stocks of various shops in the large ghetto • lists of the members of the Budapest ghetto police broken down by ghetto districts • ghetto police reports regarding various ghetto districts • miscellaneous documents of the Jewish Council regarding the Jewish hospitals in and around the large ghetto of Budapest (December 1944 – January 1945) (partly German): correspondence of the Jewish Council, the ghetto police, various hospitals and the Red Cross, orders of the ghetto authorities, and protocols regarding various issues (supply, Arrow Cross raids, patients, entry to and exit from the ghetto, etc.) • miscellaneous documents of the Jewish Council regarding the food and clothing supply of the large ghetto of Budapest (October 1944 – January 1945): list of the employees of the Food Supply Department of the Jewish Council; report on the negotiations between the Jewish Council and the representatives of the Hungarian government on sending clothing to those Jews who had been deported during the spring-summer deportation from the countryside (October 6, 1944); list of employees of the Holló Street soup kitchen; letters of the Jewish Council to the Hungarian government regarding the food supply of the large ghetto of Budapest; notes and acknowledgements of receipt issued by the Jewish Council regarding the food supply of the large ghetto; invoices of food supply for the large ghetto issued by various firms; reports on the number of inmates of the large ghetto receiving food supply; inventories of ghetto warehouses and storages; name list of labor servicemen stationed at 29 Klauzál Street; correspondence of various departments of the Jewish Council and the International Red Cross regarding the supply situation in the large ghetto • protocol of the December 13, 1944 meeting of the administrative leaders of the ghetto districts (December 13, 1944) • typed copies of daily reports sent to the Jewish Council between November 14 and December 24 by various ghetto authorities regarding various issues: atrocities committed by the Arrow Cross and the German military authorities, the November-December deportations from Budapest, housing problems, bringing Raoul Wallenberg’s coworkers to the large ghetto • typed copy of the letter of the Jewish Council to the Hungarian authorities regarding the so-called death marches • typed copy of the order issued by the Hungarian authorities regarding the setting up of safe houses in the “international” ghetto • post-war report on the Arrow Cross atrocities committed in the large ghetto, including copies of minutes of Jewish Council meetings • fragment of a Jewish Council member’s (probably Lajos Stöckler’s) memoirs on the Holocaust era"@hun . . . "Collection of stray documents"@eng . "Szórványanyagok másolatának gyűjteménye"@eng . "1 box"@eng . "Collection of stray documents"@eng . . . . . "Szórványanyagok másolatának gyűjteménye"@eng . . "Szórványanyagok másolatának gyűjteménye (Collection of stray documents)"@hun . . . "Szórványanyagok másolatának gyűjteménye (Collection of stray documents)"@hun . "The series includes Xerox copies of original Jewish Council documentation, predominantly created during the existence of the “large” ghetto in Budapest (November 1944 – January 1945). It contains various, extensive name lists, such as lists of able bodied men broken down by ghetto buildings, lists of ghetto police personnel broken down by ghetto districts; notes, reports, financial and administrative documents of various departments and organizations of the Jewish Council regarding the daily operation of the ghetto; accounts on the number of ghetto tenants as well as the buildings, apartments and rooms of the ghetto; decrees and orders issued by the Jewish Council and the Hungarian authorities. Bulk of the mentioned documentation was created by the ghetto police. Notable documents include, among others: • various name lists compiled in connection with the certificates issued by the Jewish Council: list of the Gentile employees of the Jewish Council, unidentified lists, name list of those employees of the Jewish Council’s Housing Department who live in the large ghetto or would soon move in there, name list of those employees of the Jewish Council’s Housing Department who live in the “small” or “international” ghetto, name list of the employees of the secretariat of the Jewish Council receiving certificate of free movemen, name list of the employees of the Jewish Council’s Department of Burial from Protected Buildings • certificates issued for various individuals indicating the bearers’ positions and tasks assigned by the Jewish Council • correspondence of the ghetto police, the Hungarian authorities, the International Red Cross and the Swedish Red Cross regarding the issuing of certificates to various individuals; blank certificates and certificate forms (partially German) • chart of territorial arrangement and leading staff of the Budapest large ghetto’s administrative system (no date, probably December 1944) • memorandum on the October 11-13, 1944 meeting of certain Jewish Council members and employees regarding the planned establishment of the Department of Deportee Matters in the framework of the Jewish Council • protocols and reports created by various offices and authorities of the Jewish Council on the abuse and atrocities committed in the “large” ghetto of Budapest by Hungarian and German authorities (December 14, 1944 – January 13, 1945) • internal notes of the Central Jewish Council (predominantly created by member of the Council Lajos Stöckler) regarding various issues: conflicts between Budapest Jews possessing a protected status provided by the neutral diplomatic corps and Jews not having this status, structure of the Jewish Council, Gendarme Lieutenant Colonel László Ferenczy, the plans of the Hungarian authorities to renew the already stopped deportations at the end of August 1944, the rescue attempts of Raoul Wallenberg • decrees and orders issued by the Central Jewish Council and various Hungarian authorities (August 23, 1944 – January 11, 1945): order issued by Gendarme Lieutenant Colonel László Ferenczy regarding his sole competence over the Jewish Council; orders of the Arrow Cross authorities regarding various issues (the incarceration of various Jewish individuals, restriction on the entry to and exit from the “large” ghetto) • orders and decrees issued by the Central Jewish Council on various matters regarding the Budapest Jews: creating separate “yellow star houses” for those protected by the Swedish embassy, maintaining the order of the large ghetto, Jews of foreign nationality in the ghetto • various name lists of ghetto tenants (December 1944 – January 1945): list of men capable of work broken down by buildings, compiled by the ghetto authorities, list of Jewish house commanders in various ghetto houses • charts of the number of buildings, apartments and rooms in the large ghetto of Budapest (December 1944) • invoices sent to the Central Jewish Council by building contractor Béla Székely on the renovation works he performed on various buildings (September – November 1944) • equests sent by various Jewish individuals to the Central Jewish Council asking for the Council’s intervention for their or their family’s behalf (September 14 – December 11, 1944) • letters of the Budapest ghetto police to other internal ghetto authorities and the Hungarian police regarding various issues: Jews transported into the ghetto, scattered weapons and mines on the territory of the ghetto (January 1945) • documents regarding the case of member of the Budapest ghetto police Hugó Schalk (January 6, 1945): protocol documenting Schalk’s actions; decree of the ghetto police leadership pertaining to the case • documents regarding the clothing and food supply of the Budapest ghetto police (December 1944 – January 1945): acknowledgements of receipt issued by the members of the ghetto police; inventory of clothing; order issued by the ghetto police to the administrative leadership of ghetto district 7 to hand over food • orders issued by the ghetto police regarding various issues: personnel, supply, security, bombardments, burial of the dead, suicides, etc • reports and protocols issued by the ghetto police regarding the plunder and confiscation of the stocks of various shops in the large ghetto • lists of the members of the Budapest ghetto police broken down by ghetto districts • ghetto police reports regarding various ghetto districts • miscellaneous documents of the Jewish Council regarding the Jewish hospitals in and around the large ghetto of Budapest (December 1944 – January 1945) (partly German): correspondence of the Jewish Council, the ghetto police, various hospitals and the Red Cross, orders of the ghetto authorities, and protocols regarding various issues (supply, Arrow Cross raids, patients, entry to and exit from the ghetto, etc.) • miscellaneous documents of the Jewish Council regarding the food and clothing supply of the large ghetto of Budapest (October 1944 – January 1945): list of the employees of the Food Supply Department of the Jewish Council; report on the negotiations between the Jewish Council and the representatives of the Hungarian government on sending clothing to those Jews who had been deported during the spring-summer deportation from the countryside (October 6, 1944); list of employees of the Holló Street soup kitchen; letters of the Jewish Council to the Hungarian government regarding the food supply of the large ghetto of Budapest; notes and acknowledgements of receipt issued by the Jewish Council regarding the food supply of the large ghetto; invoices of food supply for the large ghetto issued by various firms; reports on the number of inmates of the large ghetto receiving food supply; inventories of ghetto warehouses and storages; name list of labor servicemen stationed at 29 Klauzál Street; correspondence of various departments of the Jewish Council and the International Red Cross regarding the supply situation in the large ghetto • protocol of the December 13, 1944 meeting of the administrative leaders of the ghetto districts (December 13, 1944) • typed copies of daily reports sent to the Jewish Council between November 14 and December 24 by various ghetto authorities regarding various issues: atrocities committed by the Arrow Cross and the German military authorities, the November-December deportations from Budapest, housing problems, bringing Raoul Wallenberg’s coworkers to the large ghetto • typed copy of the letter of the Jewish Council to the Hungarian authorities regarding the so-called death marches • typed copy of the order issued by the Hungarian authorities regarding the setting up of safe houses in the “international” ghetto • post-war report on the Arrow Cross atrocities committed in the large ghetto, including copies of minutes of Jewish Council meetings • fragment of a Jewish Council member’s (probably Lajos Stöckler’s) memoirs on the Holocaust era"@eng .