Aladár Szegedy-Maszák papers

Aladár Szegedy-Maszák papers 

Aladár Szegedy-Maszák papers 

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The collection consists of the personal papers of Aladár Szegedy-Maszák, a high ranking Hungarian diplomat and foreign ministry official during the Holocaust era. Includes correspondence and memoirs relevant to the Second World War and its immediate aftermath, with special emphasis on Hungary’s role, its efforts to leave the war and to avoid Soviet occupation. The collection also contains biographical information on Aladár, family correspondence, subject files, copies of his Voice of America commentaries, and phonographs. 

Organized into five series: 1: Memoirs, journals, 1929-1996; 2. Correspondence, 1945-1987. 3: Subject and correspondence files created by Aladár Szegedy-Maszák, 1937-1986. 4: Voice of America commentaries written by Aladár Szegedy-Maszák, 1948-1960. 5: Voice of America programs, 1956-1957, phonograph records. The second series is divided into two sub-series: 1: Professional correspondence, 1945-1987. 2: Family correspondence, 1946-1987. The 1945-1953 years of the professional correspondence were arranged by Aladár Szegedy-Maszák in loose chronological and alphabetical order. The rest of the professional and family correspondence arrived in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives with no detectable arrangement, and was organized by the Archives by year and thereunder by document date