Records of the Housing Office of Cegléd, 1918-1944

Collection

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

Scope and content:: The collection holds fragmented records of the Housing Office of Cegléd, a municipal administrative body responsible for the rental, distribution and administration of apartments, social housing and many other housing affairs in town. In the pre-1944 part of the collection, the cases of Jewish citizens can be located by file-level investigation of the material. The most relevant part of the collection is Box 11, which includes a registry of all apartments in Cegléd (lakásnyilvántartás) from the years 1918-1926 and a list of houses owned by Jews from 1944 (zsidó tulajdonban lévő házak jegyzéke). In 1944, the housing offices were responsible for the registration and handling of Jewish apartments confiscated by the state after the ghettoisation and deportation of their owners. The tasks of the housing office included the inventory and safekeeping of furniture and other personal items left behind, the distribution and rental of apartments, the dealing with private requests for Jewish real state and moveable property and many other related issues.

Archival history:: The material was handed over to the Pest County Archives in the 1950s. The collection was placed in the Nagykőrös branch archives, where the material was arranged and the present fonds was created in 1981. The material in boxes 10-11 was taken to the archives in 1985.

Subject terms:: Antisemitism; Antisemitism--Antisemitic legislation; Antisemitism--Antisemitic measures; Holocaust; Holocaust--Ghettos; Plunder; Real estate

System of arrangement:: The records are arranged by basic numbers, re-started each year.

Finding aids:: Fragmented original registries are available for the years 1919-1924, and 1926, and alphabetical indexes for the years 1919-1923.

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.

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