Metadata: Government Commissioner for the Utilisation of Medical Labour
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 567
- Title:
- Government Commissioner for the Utilisation of Medical Labour
- Title (official language):
- Orvosi Munkaerők Felhasználásának Kormánybiztosa
- Creator/accumulator:
- Government Commissioner for the Utilisation of Medical Labour
- Date(s):
- 1944/1945
- Extent:
- 16 fascicles, 2 linear metres
- Scope and content:
- The collection contains a wealth of information on the “Aryanisation” of the medical profession and the serious problems of health care following the deportation of nearly all Jewish medics from the provinces in the summer of 1944. The records include the organisational matters of physicians, including appointments for military labour service, cases of exemption and replacement, documents on the utilisation of medical equipment confiscated from Jewish physicians and institutions, as well as personal records concerning Jewish physicians and miscellaneous records (social aid, statistics, reports, etc.).
- Archival history:
- The collection was acquired by the Hungarian National Archives in 1948.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Established in 1944, the Commissariat for the Utilisation of Medical Labour was responsible for the organisation and management of medical care in Hungary, especially the replacement of physicians called up for military service and the utilisation of medical equipment and medicine, including those confiscated from Jewish physicians.
- Subject terms:
- Health and medical matters
- Holocaust
- Plunder
- Plunder--Aryanisation
- Finding aids:
- No finding aids exist. The material requires item-level research.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Hungarian Jewish Museum and Archives