hu-002737-hu hja xxiv c
title: Landeszman-gyűjtemény
scope and content: The Landeszman collection includes miscellaneous Holocaust-related documents from 1944-45 and the postwar period, such as documents of individual labor servicemen, letters and requests of the Central Jewish Council from the year 1944, daily demands various Hungarian and German authorities sent to the Central Jewish Council, requesting the delivery of various objects or the provision of various services, notes on the organization of ghetto life, documents regarding the ghettoization and deportation of Jews of Kiskunhalas and Sopron, reports from countryside ghettos from May 1944, list of prominent members of various Jewish communities, some eyewitness accounts on collection camps, documents of Budapest ghetto authorities from late 1944, lists on the confiscation of Jewish apartments and their executors, list of the social department’s employees, letters from death marches, lists of missing persons, protective documents (Schutzpässe) as well as invitation cards to commemorating the victims of the Holocaust from various localities shortly after the war. The collection also contains miscellaneous documents of József Pásztor, high-ranking official of various Jewish aid organizations from 1942-1943 and 1945-1949, including his correspondence, reports and proposals on Jewish aid activity from the war years, on the one hand, and notes, surveys, reports, correspondence on the aid of the survivors and the reconstruction of the Jewish communities from shortly after the end of the war, on the other. Furthermore, there are various documents from the time of the beginnings of general legal discrimination in Hungary. These include the catalogue of the 1938 exhibition commemorating the 19th century emancipation of the Jews in Hungary organized by the National Jewish Museum of Hungary and also the call of the Office of Hungarian Israelites and the Pest Jewish community to the Jewish population about their recommended "appropriat") behavior. Last but not least, the Landeszman collect…
identifier: HU HJA XXIV-C
type: RecordSet
has or had title: Documents collected by former Director of the Jewish Archives of Hungary György Landeszman
archivist note: Description prepared by Ferenc Laczó based on http://collections.ushmm.org/findingaids/RG-39.013M_Hu.pdf
has record set type: Collection
archival history: The collection was compiled by Chief Rabbi György Landeszman, former director of the Hungarian Jewish Archives.
has or had some members with language: hun
has or had holder: hu-002737