Metadata: Records of the Hungarian Agency at the League of Nations and the Consulate General in Geneva, 1920-1945
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 107
- Title:
- Records of the Hungarian Agency at the League of Nations and the Consulate General in Geneva, 1920-1945
- Title (official language):
- Népszövetségi képviselet és genfi főkonzulátus iratai, 1920-1945
- Creator/accumulator:
- Hungarian Agency at the League of Nations
- Date(s):
- 1920/1945
- Extent:
- 139 fascicles, 62 volumes, 21.4 linear metres
- Scope and content:
- Records of the Hungarian Agency at the League of Nations and its successor (from 1939), the Hungarian Consulate in Geneva, Switzerland, contain material concerning Hungarian Jews from 1920 to 1939. The overwhelming majority of the records are from 1938 and 1939. The most relevant parts of the collection include various reports concerning the “Jewish question”, Zionism and the Palestine problem between 1930 and 1939 (thematic unit no. 75.). The collection also holds comprehensive political reports and general documents pertaining to Hungarian Jews, such as demographical statistics and charts, the memorandum of Foreign Minister Kálmán Kánya, reports about the World Jewish Congress in May 1938, and the conference in Evian in July 1938. The post-1939 part of the collection has little relevance for the history of the Hungarian Jews and the Holocaust. A part of the collection is written in French. The majority of the records were created by Hungarian representative at the League of Nations and Ambassador to Switzerland László Velics (1935-1940) and his associates.
- Archival history:
- The fragments of the surviving records of the Hungarian embassies and other diplomatic corps were handed over to the Hungarian National Archives in 1950. The material was rearranged at the end of the 1950s as well as in the 1960s and 1970s. The first finding aids were published in 1959 and 1964, followed by a revised second edition in 2003.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The Hungarian Secretariat at the League of Nations (from 1925: Royal Hungarian Agency at the League of Nations) was established in Geneva in 1923. In 1939, it was converted to a Consulate General, which operated until 1945.
- Access points: locations:
- Switzerland
- Access points: persons/families:
- Velics, László
- Subject terms:
- World Jewish Congress
- Zionism
- System of arrangement:
- The material of the Hungarian Consulate in Geneva is divided into seven major thematic groups: two of them, the Political and the Classified Records (nos. III-IV.) contain relevant information on Hungarian Jews and the Holocaust (fascicles 68, 154 and 163.).
- Finding aids:
- Ferenc Nagy, ed. Külügyminisztérium levéltára. Vols 2. Budapest: MOL, 2003.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Hungarian Jewish Museum and Archives