Metadata: Records of the Endorsement Committees of the Upper Province, 1938-1939
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 568
- Title:
- Records of the Endorsement Committees of the Upper Province, 1938-1939
- Title (official language):
- Felvidéki igazoló bizottságok iratai, 1938-1939
- Creator/accumulator:
- Endorsement Committees of the Upper Province
- Date(s):
- 1938/1939
- Extent:
- 2 fascicles, 0.2 linear metres
- Scope and content:
- The collection holds the surviving records of the so-called Endorsement Committees established after the re-annexation of the Upper Province (Felvidék) to Hungary in 1938 from Czechoslovakia. Most of the files were destroyed. The remaining part includes the files pertaining to employees of municipal and state administration as well as to physicians and pharmacists. The latter two categories included quite a few Jews, but these cases can be localized only by item-level investigation of the files.
- Archival history:
- The records were obtained by the Hungarian National Archives in the early 1950s.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Following the re-annexation of the Upper Province, the Hungarian state established Endorsement Committees to screen the state employees who had served under the Czechoslovak rule. Only those whom the committees declared politically reliable were allowed to keep their jobs. The committees comprised four members and a chair, who were appointed by the Ministry of the Interior (in the case of administrative officials) or other ministries. The committees often disqualified those people whose loyalty to the Hungarian state was “questionable”, e.g. members of Czech or Slovak parties or those who declared themselves Czech or Slovak in the censuses of the interwar period. The committees operated under the influence of the nationalistic United Hungarian Party led by Andor Jaross, a staunch antisemite, and therefore often had anti-Jewish attitudes.
- Finding aids:
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No finding aids exist.
Szabó Helga: A visszacsatolt Csallóköz politikai és közigazgatási beilleszkedése 1938-1941. In Fórum Társadalomtudományi Szemle, IV.évf., 2002/2. sz.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Hungarian Jewish Museum and Archives
