Personal records of the Hungarian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MOL K 150 P)

Personal records of the Hungarian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MOL K 150 P) 

Personal records of the Hungarian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MOL K 150 P) 

81,124 digital images, JPEG 22 microfilm reels (digitized), 16 mm 

Records of Hungarian law enforcement authorities about extra-judicial suppression of such activities as"spreading rumors""anti-stat" or"anti-Hungaria" statements, listening to British or Soviet radio broadcasts,"profiteering""hoarding" sheltering Jewish fugitives, providing the latter with false papers, bribing officials,"vagrancy" prostitution,"miscegination" and so on. Measures included not only arrest and incarceration, but house arrest, restrictions on use of telephones and postal services, banishment from particular places, forbidding contact with persons outside immediate family, and the like. Police records (including fingerprints), suspects' statements, authorizations, appeals, suspension of measures, communications with attorneys, and other materials. 

The system of arrangement of the source repository has been preserved in the microfilmed reels. Arranged in two series: 1. Public Safety: Police surveillance files with individaul cases (Reel 1-20); 2. Health Administration: Forced labor doctors; Permits for new pharmacies; Statements in hospitals and clinics in Budapest forJewish patients. Individual cases (Reel 20-21).