Metadata: Records of the Danube Airplane Factory (Tököl), 1941-1945
Collection
- 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:
- XI. 25
- Title:
- Records of the Danube Airplane Factory (Tököl), 1941-1945
- Title (official language):
- Dunai Repülőgépgyár (Tököl) iratai, 1941-1945
- Creator/accumulator:
- Danube Airplane Factory
- Date(s):
- 1941/1945
- Language:
- Hungarian
- Extent:
- 1 box, 0.12 linear metres
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The collection holds the name list of the officials working for the Danube Airplane Factory, one of the major war production plants in Hungary during World War II. Besides the personal data of employees, the log includes their dates of joining and leaving the company. Furthermore, the collection contains a copy of the monograph written on the history of the company, published by the Hungarian Historic Society: Lajos Kováts, A Dunai Repülőgépgyár Rt. története [The History of the Danube Airplane Factory], Budapest: Magyar Történelmi Társulat Üzemtörténeti Szekció, 1985.
- Archival history:
- The records of the Danube Airplane Factory were probably taken over by the Pest County Archives in the 1980s. The material was rearranged and described in its present form in 2011
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The Danube Airplane Factory (Dunai Repülőgépgyár, DR) was established by the Jewish Manfréd Weiss Syndicate with the support of the Hungarian state in 1941 according to the German-Hungarian agreement on war production of 6 June 1941. The premises of the factory were built in an industrial area and an airfield located between the villages Szigetszentmiklós and Tököl, and named Horthyliget after the head of state Regent Miklós Horthy. The DR mostly produced Messerschmitt warplane kites and engines for the Luftwaffe. In 1944, a notorious military internment camp was set up in the buildings of the factory, holding Jewish prisoners.
- Subject terms:
- Holocaust
- Internment
- Manufacturing
- Trade and commerce
- World War II
- System of arrangement:
- The records are arranged thematically; the publication and the list of the employees are bound in two separate volumes.
- Finding aids:
- An offline collection level description is available for the collection in Hungarian.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Hungarian Jewish Museum and Archives
- Author of the description:
- László Csősz; Hungarian National Archives; 15-12-2015 (In cooperation with the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure)
