National Committee of Hungarian Jews for Attending Deportees

National Committee of Hungarian Jews for Attending Deportees  

One of the key organizations responsible for the repatriation and relief of Holocaust survivors in Hungary. DEGOB was established in Budapest in March 1945. It received its financial support from the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, the International Red Cross, and the Jewish Agency for Palestine. DEGOB organized twenty-six expeditions in 1945 and managed to repatriate several thousand Hungarian deportees from former Nazi camps throughout Europe. In addition to providing aid for survivors, DEGOB was one of the earliest and largest projects to document the mass destruction of European Jews. It set up a card index of about 150,000 data sets on survivors and victims and recorded thousands of interviews with returning deportees related to their sufferings.