Metadata: Records of the Hungarian Embassy in Stockholm, 1938-1944
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 101
- Title:
- Records of the Hungarian Embassy in Stockholm, 1938-1944
- Title (official language):
- Stockholmi követség iratai, 1938-1944
- Creator/accumulator:
- Hungarian Embassy in Stockholm
- Date(s):
- 1938/1944
- Extent:
- 60 fascicles, 67 volumes, 10.67 linear metres
- Scope and content:
-
Records of the Hungarian Embassy in Stockholm, the capital city of neutral Sweden, contain considerable material concerning Hungarian Jews from 1938 to 1944, from the era of anti-Jewish laws and the Holocaust. Relevant parts of the collection include a large number of citizenship cases, inheritance-related cases, birth, death and divorce certificates, visa-related documents of Hungarian Jews immigrating to Sweden. Additionally, the collection records the persecution of Hungarian Jews: there are documents of falsification of visas, withdrawal of citizenship, refugees, requests for the release of family members from Nazi concentration camps or from labour service, documents on expropriation of Jewish property and expulsion, matters related to the use of passports by persons who had become stateless and requests for exemption from the anti-Jewish laws.
This collection of the Embassy also contains documents about the Hungarian-Swedish relationship from 1938 to 1944, for instance visa requests of Swedish missionaries arriving in Hungary to convert Jews in 1941 and certificates of Hungarian citizens in Sweden in 1944. Furthermore, the collection also holds documents of the Embassy that are of a more general nature, such as the reproduced texts of Hungarian anti-Jewish decrees from 1944, newspaper clippings and regulations of exemptions from Jewish laws. There are Hungarian documents about the regulation of intermarriage between Christians and Jews and about the conditions of conversion in Hungary.
The key person in the collection is Hungarian Ambassador Péter Matuska (1937-1940).
- 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 diplomatic mission in Sweden was established in 1920 in Stockholm. It was closed down in January 1932 due to financial reasons and the embassy in The Hague took over the tasks of the mission. The embassy in Stockholm was re-established in 1937 and operated until 1945.
- Access points: persons/families:
- Matuska, Péter
- Subject terms:
- Citizenship
- Holocaust
- Holocaust--Concentration camps
- Migration
- Vital records
- Wills
- Finding aids:
- Ferenc Nagy, ed. Külügyminisztérium levéltára. Vols 2. Budapest: MOL, 2003.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Hungarian Jewish Museum and Archives