Records of the Hungarian Royal Police Department of Vác, 1942, 1944

Records of the Hungarian Royal Police Department of Vác, 1942, 1944 

A M.Kir. Rendőrség Váci Kapitányságának iratai, 1942, 1944 

Records of the Hungarian Royal Police Department of Vác, 1942, 1944 

A M.Kir. Rendőrség Váci Kapitányságának iratai, 1942, 1944 

1,92 linear metres Textual records 

The collection holds the survived records of the Police Department of the town of Vác, mostly from the fateful year of 1944. Jewish-related cases are scattered throughout the material and include, but not limited to the following topics: permits and licenses of Jewish individuals and companies, extensions of permits and licenses, including events of communities and social organizations, citizenship and naturalization cases, certificates and residence permits, documents pertaining to the conscription of Jews and the yellow star decree and many other anti-Jewish measures in April 1944, the confiscation of Jewish assets and the ghettoization in May-June 1944, records of offences and violations of anti-Jewish laws and decrees and possibly cases of rescue and mitigation. 

The records were arranged chronologically, the number of case files re-started each year. Box 1-12 hold administrative records and boxes 14-17 records of petty offences. The index of the 1942 records (vol. 13) is missing.