Records of the Mayor of the Town of Cegléd, 1872-1944

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Country:: Hungary

Holding institution:: National Archives of Hungary, Pest County Archives

Holding institution (official language):: Magyar Nemzeti Levéltár Pest Megyei Levéltára

Postal address:: Pf. 141., H-1450 Budapest, Hungary

Phone number:: +36 1 455 9050

Web address:: http://mnl.gov.hu/pml/

Email:: pml@mnl.gov.hu

Reference number:: V.73

Title:: Records of the Mayor of the Town of Cegléd, 1872-1944

Title (official language):: Cegléd város polgármesterének iratai, 1872-1944

Creator/accumulator:: Mayor’s Office of the Town of Cegléd

Date(s):: 1872/1944

Language:: Hungarian

Extent:: 139.79 linear metres

Type of material:: Textual material

Physical condition:: good

Scope and content:: The collection holds the records of the Mayor, the head of the administration of the town of Cegléd between 1872 and 1950. The records cover all segments of the life of Jewish and non-Jewish citizens of Cegléd and include, but are not limited to, the following issues: payment of and various other matters concerning taxes, fees and revenues, lists of largest taxpayers, trade certificates of Jewish individuals and companies, permits for pedlars, travelling agents and merchants, procurement matters, violations of economic laws and other offences, various requests and petitions, permits of constructions, various matters concerning the industrial and commercial enterprises of Jews, including trade permits, personal matters of apprentices and employees, registries of merchants and tradesmen by professions, registry of tradesmen; records of liquidation and auctions, matters of petty offences; conscription and other military matters, orphans and guardianship, housing matters, agriculture, welfare and social aid, and cultural matters. The collection also contain information on matters of Jewish communities, including the decisions concerning temporary and permanent financial aid and support for Israelite schools and institutions and Jewish communities, regulations concerning Israelite registers of births, marriages and deaths, establishment of Jewish associations, protocols on the supervision of financial and administrative matters, accrued community tax and other tax issues.

Records from the years 1938-1944 include material concerning the implementation of Jewish Laws and other antisemitic bureaucratic procedures, including the withdrawal of trade licences and permits, quitting rental agreements of Jews, exclusion of Jews from the municipal committee and social organisations, discharge of Jewish private and state employees, registration and expropriation of Jewish landholdings; administrative procedures against Jewish communities, various lists and conscriptions of Jewish traders, companies, real estate, stocks and lands, as well as memoranda, requests and petitions reflecting the antisemitic public mood, denunciations, reports against and investigation of the cases of Jewish individuals and companies, withdraw of weapon permits, protocols of supervision of Jewish shops, inns, factories, pharmacies and other companies, appointments of authorised wholesalers and traders (discrimination against Jewish companies), decisions concerning trade, citizenship requests of Jews, decisions concerning Jewish landholdings and requests for Jewish lands.

Wartime records include documents concerning military labour service of Jewish men, social aid to Jewish individuals, including war widows and orphans and family members of military labour servicemen, conversion and name magyarisation cases, decisions concerning the work of military labour service companies, conscription lists, antisemitic incidents, activities of extreme right wing organisations and parties, bans of Jewish organisations, including local Zionist groups.

The Holocaust-related part of the collection includes the implementation of the anti-Jewish decrees, internment of Jewish individuals, ghettoisation, transit camps, the social and economic problems caused by the deportation of Jews, including the lack of doctors and other specialists, cases of Jewish doctors drafted for labour service, expropriation of Jewish wealth, petitions of non-Jewish individuals and organisations for Jewish apartments, shops and other property, decisions of the municipal authorities concerning Jewish apartments and other assets, appointments of wardens and guardians, reports and inventories on factories, stores, shops, vehicles, etc. of Jews, cases of escape, rescue and mitigation, exemption cases, antisemitic propaganda (posters, fliers), reports and denunciations against Jews, dissolution of Jewish communities and institutions and decisions about their real estate and moveable property.

Post-Holocaust records include petitions of returning survivors for social aid and restitution, the re-establishment of Jewish organisations, participation of Jews in the social and economic life, including the restart of enterprises and reports about abandoned property.

In detail, the extent of this collection is as follows:

Administrative records, V.73.b.: 765 boxes, 469 vols., 1 booklet, 128.75 linear metres

Taxation records, V. 73. c.: 8 boxes, 79 vols., 4.34 linear metres

Records of military matters, V. 73. e.: 190 vols., 21 fasc., 5.8 linear metres

Records of the Public Supply Office, V. 73. j.: 4 boxes, 6 vols., 0.9 linear metres

Archival history:: The records of the Mayor’s Office were taken over by its successor, the City Council of Cegléd in 1950. The City Council handed over the archival collection of the Mayor’s Office in the 1970s and 1980s to the Nagykőrös branch of the Pest County Archives. The collection was re-arranged several times and reached its present form in 1987.

Administrative/biographical history:: Mayor (polgármester) was the leading official of the towns and cities in Hungary. The mayor was elected by the Municipal Committee and his powers were regulated by the statutes created by the Committee as well as by Act XXI of 1886 (§73) The scope of authority of the Mayor was significantly broadened by Act XXX of 1930, which handed over most of the functions of the City Council to the Mayor’s Office. The Mayor’s Office included several departments according to its main administrative and economic functions.

Access points: locations:: Cegléd

Subject terms:: Antisemitism; Antisemitism--Antisemitic legislation; Antisemitism--Antisemitic measures; Forced labour (of Jews); Holocaust; Holocaust--Collaboration; Holocaust--Deportation; Holocaust--Ghettos; Jewish community; Land registries; Military; Plunder; Plunder--Aryanisation; Residency issues of Jews; Trade and commerce; Zionism; Zionism--Zionist organisations and parties

System of arrangement:: The collection is divided into 11 provenance groups, numbered V.73. a-k., the most relevant of which are the Presidential records, 1891-1944 (V.73. a.), Administrative records, 1872-1944 (V. 73. b.), Taxation records, 1892-1925 (V. 73. c.), Records of military matters (V. 73. e.)., and the Records of the Public Supply Office (V. 73. j.). Administrative records are arranged by thematic groups numbered I to XXI by the major functions of the departments of the mayor’s office. Within the thematic groups, the records are mostly arranged by basic numbers, re-started each year.

Finding aids:: Original alphabetical indexes and registries are available for the collection.

Ernő Lakatos, ed: A Magyar Állami Levéltárak fondjegyzéke, Vol. III. A Területi Levéltárak fondjegyzékei Part 13. A Pest Megyei Levéltár fondjainak jegyzéke. Budapest: Magyar Országos Levéltár, 1975.

Yerusha Network member:: Hungarian Jewish Museum and Archives

Author of the description:: László Csősz; Hungarian National Archives; 05-12-2015 (In cooperation with the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure)

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