Metadata: Prime Minister’s Office, Bureau of Exemptions, 1944
Collection
- Country:
- Hungary
- Holding institution:
- National Archives of Hungary, National Archives
- Holding institution (official language):
- Magyar Nemzeti Levéltár Országos Levéltára
- Postal address:
- Budapest, Bécsi Kapu tér 2-4., 1014
- Phone number:
- +36 1 225 2843
- Web address:
- http://mnl.gov.hu/
- Email:
- info@mnl.gov.hu
- Reference number:
- K 466
- Title:
- Prime Minister’s Office, Bureau of Exemptions, 1944
- Title (official language):
- Miniszterelnökség, Mentesítési osztály, 1944
- Creator/accumulator:
- Prime Minister’s Office
- Date(s):
- 1944
- Extent:
- 1 fascicle, 0.05 linear metres
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- This collection contains name lists of people, including prominent figures of Hungarian social and cultural life, who gained exemption status in September-October 1944 (no.1.), as well as documents of individuals applying for this status, numbered 2 to 245. These applications contain personal files of the applicants, letters of recommendations and correspondence, many of them written by dramatis personae of the era, such as Cardinal Jusztinián Serédi. Besides, the material contains notes on exemption cases turned down by the Council of Ministers, indexes, summaries, and personal files of the employees of the bureau.
- Archival history:
- The Hungarian National Archives acquired the collection in 1948.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The Bureau of Exemptions was established by Regent Miklós Horthy following the German occupation of Hungary, in the late summer of 1944, in order to exempt prominent Jews from particular measures such as wearing the yellow star, ghettoisation, and deportation. The bureau was dissolved during the Arrow Cross rule at the end of the same year.
- Access points: persons/families:
- Serédi, Jusztinián, 1884-1945
- Subject terms:
- Antisemitism
- Holocaust
- Legal matters
- Finding aids:
- A Hungarian-language inventory is available for the collection.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Hungarian Jewish Museum and Archives