Hungary: 1918-1989

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Read about the collection here.
From Budapest City Archives.
(1696-1919; Hungarian facsimiles)
Collection of documents and photos from Jewish culture in Hungary.
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Includes items from Holocaust and before the Holocaust.
(19th and 20th century; photos, Hungarian interface, Hungarian and Yiddish facsimiles)
Memoirs of Miklós Horthy de Nagybánya, Hungarian admiral and statesman (nagybányai Horthy Miklós).
Annotations by Andrew L. Simon.
(1868-1957; English translation)
Includes Budapest housing plans with reactions and critiques from primary sources.
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(1870-1945; facsimiles, Hungarian transcriptions)
Facsimiles of prison records from various collections.
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From the Budapest City Archives.
(1873-1951; Hungarian facsimiles)
Plans, photos, and documents from the life of Béla Lajta, a Hungarian architect.
(23 January 1873 - 12 October 1920; Hungarian facsimiles)
Documents from private and public notaries of Budapest.
Collection of documents from various collections.
From Budapest City Archives.
(1875-1975; Hungarian facsimiles)
(20th century; Hungarian)
Oral history archive with accounts of 20th century Hungary.
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Archives include accounts of life in Hungary, personal documents, and written memoirs.
Oral accounts found here.
Photos and written accounts found here and here.
(20th century; photos, Hungarian audio and transcriptions)
Various personal and government documents from 20th century Hungary.
(20th century; Hungarian facsimiles)
Petitions, diaries, newspaper articles, letters, and records related to Hungarian Jewish Boy Scouts.
(1906-1945; Hungarian facsimiles)
Treaty between Central Powers and Soviet Russia ending Russia's involvement in WWI.
(March 3, 1918; English)
A collection of primary documents from the Internet Modern History Sourcebook.
(1914-1918; transcriptions and translations)
Downloadable facsimiles
(1918-1945; Hungarian and English)
By Major General Harry Hill Bandholtz, "America's representative to the Inter-Allies Supreme Command's Military Mission in Hungary at the end of WWI."
(1919-1920; English facsimile)
(31 July 1921; Hungarian transcription)
Peace treaty between the U.S. and Hungary after WWi. Supplementary treaty here.
(August 29, 1921; English)
The documents come from archives in many different Soviet bloc countries. They are mainly decision memorandums, descriptions, agreements, and reports. The collection includes mainly bilateral agreements for cooperation between Communist countries and domestic intelligence reports from Bulgaria.
(1930-1991; English facsimiles)
View exhibitions, which include documents, by theme.
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From Budapest Főváros Levéltára/Budapest City Archives.
Letters from Holocaust Era (27 January 1933 - 9 February 1934).
(27 January 1933 - 8 May 1945; Hungarian facsimiles and transcriptions)
Primary accounts, interviews from Hungarian Holocaust victims. Accounts also include biographic information such as occupation, date of birth, and place of birth.
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Official site of Deportees National Committee of Hungary, an organization first founded in 1945.
Data about Holocaust victims.
(30 January 1933 - 8 May 1945; Hungarian facsimiles and transcriptions)
Includes notices, certificates, official documents, applications, and military communications.
(1937 - 27 November 1944; Hungarian facsimiles)
Resolutions, statements, protocols, and photos from Hungarian schools in Holocaust Era.
Documents removal of Jewish teachers from Hungarian schools during the Holocaust.
(1939-1944; Hungarian facsimiles)
A collection of primary documents from the Internet Modern History Sourcebook.
(1939-1945; transcriptions and translations)
A collection of documents related to WWII.
From the Avalon Project.
  • The Destruction of Hungarian Jewry: A Documentary Account
Volume One
Volume Two
A large collection of official and unofficial records and sources digitized by the Hathi Trust Digital Library.
(Facsimiles in German, Hungarian and English).
Database of interviews with Jewish people from Hungary.
Includes facsimiles of official documents.
Explore the database by family name, city.
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(photos, English transcriptions, Hungarian facsimiles)
Including treaties affecting the Hungarian border from the Treaty of Trianon to the Moscow Agreement.
Published by the Bureau of Intelligence and Research, US Department of State
(1920-1945; facsimiles)
Collection from the Hungarian National Archives, Hungaricana.
(1920-1956; Hungarian transcriptions)
By Andrew Salamon. The story of a Jewish boy who survived the war years in Budapest.
From Remember.org
From the Testimony of Anna Lenji
From Yad Vashem
(English translation)
From the Testimony of Avraham Sadeh
From Yad Vashem
(English translation)
Eva was 13 years old when she started writing her diary...and continued writing until May 1944, the day she was deported to Auschwitz.
From Yad Vashem
(14 February 1944; English translation)
Compilation of primary documents. Topics include: origins; Cold War Berlin; Red Scare and McCarthyism; waging the Cold War; Hungarian Uprising; U2 incident, Cuba and the missile crisis; Détente; ‘Second Cold War’; end of the Cold War
From Alpha History
(1944-1991; English)
  • Foreign relations between Hungary and the US
Documents from US State Department and University of Wisconsin-Madison.
1945
Transfer of German populations from Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Rumania, and Austria, 1945
Discussion of Hungarian-Rumanian frontier, Paris, 17 May 1946
Peace Conference: US draft treaties with Italy, Rumania, Bulgaria, Hungary, and Finland; 29 July-15 October 1946
1946
1947
1949
1950
1951
US estimate of situation in Hungary, 1955
Rakosi resigns, documents 80-92; 1956
The Hungarian Rebellion, 1956
Fall of Nagy and UN discussion of Hungarian question, 1956
US role in Hungarian rebellion and its aftermath, US assistance to Hungary; 1956-1957
UN special committee report on Hungary, 1957
The US reevaluates its Eastern European policies, 1957
1964-1968
1969-1972
(1945-1972; English transcriptions)
Legislative acts, regulations, and ministry communications.
Intelligence reports and discussion of camps.
(March 1945 - 23 August 1985; Hungarian facsimiles and transcriptions)
Downloadable facsimiles
(1945-1956; Hungarian and English)
(1946-1965, published May 1972; English facsimile)
Plans for cooperation, meeting minutes, and contracts.
(14 May 1948 - 22 February 1989; Czech, Hungarian, and Russian facsimiles and transcriptions)
Provided by the website of the National Assembly. English translation also available.
1949, as updated to the present.
(Hungarian transcription and English translation)
1949, as updated to 1997.
(English and German translations)
(September 1950-December 1953, published May 1972; English facsimile)
"70,292 digitized Information Item reports created by Radio Free Europe’s (RFE) News and Information Department in multiple languages from 1951-1957, covering political, economic, social and cultural issues behind the Iron Curtain. The Items concerned topics ranging from official Communist Party and state apparatus organization to micro-level practices of everyday life."
Items were "processed by national evaluation units for Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland and Romania."
From the OSA Archive Digital Repository.
(1951-1957; English, German, Czech, Hungarian, Polish, French, Romanian, Slovak, Bulgarian, and Georgian facsimiles)
Reports on developments in the communist world.
"18,224 special studies and thematic research papers produced by Radio Free Europe (RFE) and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) research units from 1952 till 1992."
(1952-1992; English transcriptions)
Memoirs of the Commander in Chief of the Fleet of the Austro-Hungarian dual monarchy and head of the Hungarian State
(1953 publication; English facsimile; photos)
Resolution of the party leadership following orders from the Kremlin to outline changes.
One upshot was Imre Nagy taking over as prime minister to replace Mátyás Rákosi.
Source: Sándor Balogh, ed., Nehez esztendok kronikaja 1949-1953. Dokumentumok (Budapest: Gondolat, 1986).
(28 June 1953; translation into English of original Hungarian)
Washington D.C.: Fifth interim report of hearings before the subcommittee on Hungary of the select committee on communist agression
(1954; English facsimile)
This collection follows China's relations with countries in Eastern and Central Europe from the Sino-Soviet alliance through the Sino-Soviet split and the end of the Cold War. It contains files from China, Poland, Hungary, East Germany, Romania, Albania, and other countries inside and outside of the Soviet bloc.
From the Wilson Digital Archive
(1954-1989; English transcriptions)
Documents from Hungarian secret police.
(1 January 1955 - 15 December 1977; Hungarian transcriptions)
Report from the American Embassy in Vienna to the Department of State.
Operations aimed at Hungary included leaflet drops from unmanned balloons.
Source: National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), RG 59, Internal Affairs of Hungary, 1955-1959, Decimal File, 764.00/3-2455.
(24 March 1955; English-language transcription)
”Reporter D. Sefton Delmer filed this eyewitness account of the beginning of the uprising with the London Daily Express.”
EyeWitness to History
(1956; English transcription, photographs)
From Columbia University Research Project on Hungary Interviews with 1956 Hungarian Refugees.
"English-language transcripts of interviews with Hungarian adult and child refugees and related documentation, created by the Columbia University Research Project on Hungary (CURPH)."
From the OSA Digital Repository.
(1956-1958; English transcriptions)
Statement of the Soviet Government
In cooperation with Fordham University
(1956; English transcription)
From the project, A Day That Shook the World, which "recalls the days of the 20th century that proved to be era-defining and pivotal in the course of modern history."
Coproduction of British Pathe and BBC
(1956; English; videos)
"3,523 digitized items... on the 1956 Hungarian Revolution, its aftermath and repercussions in the United Nations (UN) General Assembly and Special Committee on the Problem of Hungary (active 1957-1958). Known informally as the Héderváry Collection... the collection contains UN memoranda and correspondence, press releases and reviews, and related internal documents from the period 1956 to 1962."
From the OSA Archive Digital Repository.
(1956-1962; English, French, Spanish, Hungarian, German facsimiles)
Recordings, transcriptions, and written accounts from 1956 Hungary.
(1956; Hungarian audio and transcriptions)
From Francis Verseghy Electronic Library.
(1956 - present; Hungarian facsimiles)
(January 1956-16 January 1957; English translations)
Click on the dodis.ch links to find primary sources of the crisis. Many of the documents relate to Swiss involvement, including refugee acceptance and donations of 6.5 Swiss Francs.
(1956; English interface with French and German facsimiles)
Demands of the Soviet government.
The fact that the official Hungarian Radio refused to broadcast the points led to the critical demonstration on October 23.
(22 October, 1956; English translation)
Overview of preferences for action from individual members of the Central Committee.
(October 23, 1956; English translation of Russian transcript)
CIA and National Security council Briefing on the developing revolution in Budapest
(October 26, 1956; English transcription)
(28 October 1956; English translation)
(30 October 1956; English translation)
Includes resolution for situation.
(31 October 1956; English translation)
Scroll down for links to minutes and reports written around the time of the event.
From the The National Security Archive
(1956; English transcriptions)
(Discusses 23 October-4 November 1956, published January 1958; English facsimile)
Documents regarding the uprisings in Hungary and Poland against Soviet rule.
Part of the Wilson Center's Digital Archive of the Cold War.
(1930-1956; English transcriptions)
On 4 November 1956, the United Nations General Assembly deplores the Soviet military intervention in Hungary. The resolution, adopted by 50 votes, is rejected by Albania, Bulgaria, Byelorussia, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Romania, the Soviet Union and Ukraine.
(1956; English)
Declassified CIA Histories Describe Hungarian Revolution as "Undreamed-of." Includes both CIA and Soviet documents.
(1956; English transcriptions)
Declassified CIA documents from Cold War Era Hard Target Analysis.
(28 January 1957; PDF facsimiles)
Documents of Hungarian state security, ability to sort by division, department, and year.
(30 July 1960 - 16 Sepetember 1972; Hungarian facsimiles)
"58 Hungarian educational films on ABC (atomic, biological, chemical) warfare released between 1964-1982, as part of a public awareness campaign about protection against weapons of mass destruction. The films were produced by the Ministry of Defence department Polgári Védelem Országos Parancsnokság (PVOP; Civil Defense Alliance)"
From the OSA Digital Repository.
(1964-1982; Hungarian films)
Website with Hungarian documents and other resources from the Chernobyl disaster.
Resources from National Archives of the Hungarian National Archives and the National Archives of the Hungarian State Archives.
Documents
By date
By theme
Photos
Videos
Documentaries about the Chernobyl disaster.
(29 April 1986 - March 1997; photos, videos, Hungarian transcriptions)
"1,072 verbatim transcripts of daily news programs broadcast on two Hungarian state radio stations, Kossuth and Petőfi."
Transcripts prepared by Radio Free Europe (RFE).
(1988-1990; Hungarian transcriptions)
  • 1989 Footage
REFUGEES
REFORMS
REPUBLIC
Compiled by AP Archive
(1988; English; video)
Previously secret documents from behind the Iron Curtain detailing the ultimately futile scramble by the Communist parties of the region to stay in power in 1989.
(1989; English transcription)
Primary Sources including political posters, infant mortality reports, national security directives, etc.
(1989; English and Hungarian)
Documents, meeting minutes, especially between Ministries of Interior.
(1989; Hungarian and Czech facsimiles)
Excerpt from correspondence regarding the opening of the Austrian-Hungarian border.
(1989; English translation)
Excerpt from a conversation between opposition leaders and the Soviet ambassador.
(1989; English translation)
The documents in the book include formerly top secret deliberations of Soviet, U.S. and East European decision makers, memoranda of conversations and intelligence estimates.
(1989; English transcription)

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