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Reel
[#181]
Sections
Title
Exemption refusals; New guidelines; Clerical correspondence
Year
1944
Issued by
Ministry of the Interior; Various clergy offices
Location
Various
Description
Refusal to exempt wearing the yellow star by converted Jews; New guidelines for declaring who is considered Jewish; Various correspondence between clerical personnel;
Frames
541
Title
Students in labor camp; List of destroyed books; Handling instructions of converted Jews.
Year
1944
Issued by
Ministry of the Interior; Various clergy offices
Location
Various
Description
Usage of high school students in labor camp; List of books by Jewish authors eliminated from school libraries; Detailed instructions how to handle converted Jews by separating them, (represented by Sandor Torok author);
Frames
541
Title
Public notice to converted Jews; Rules for converted Jews; List of some Jews being converted; Request for evacuated properties;
Year
1944
Issued by
Mayor; Various clerical Offices
Location
Various
Description
Public notice to all Jews converted before Aug. 1941; Basic rules of the Alliance of Hungarian converted Jews; List of 11 Jews converted to become Lutheran; Requests and usage by the clergy of evacuated locations owned by Jews;
Frames
541
Title
Extract from list of decisions of the Lutheran Church; Restrictions in excepting students in schools; Requests for ID-s. Plea to the Prime Minister
Year
1944
Issued by
Top organization of the Hungarian Lutheran clergy; Ministry of Education
Location
Various
Description
Extract from decisions made by the Council of the Lutheran Church re. converted Jews; Restrictions to accept Jewish students in certain schools; Request to issue special ID-s to clergy members; Plea to the prime minister to declare Budapest as open city and not making evacuation mandatory.
Frames
541
Title
Lutheran Bishop's request to exempt 55 Jews from persecution; Request by clergy for Swedish protection; Housing of converted Jews; Protest for inhumane handling of Jewish population; Repeated requests to exempt converted Jews;
Year
1944
Issued by
Ministry of the Interior; Various clerical Offices; District Police in charge with concentrating Jewish
Location
Various
Description
Lutheran Bishop's request to exempt listed Jews from persecution (cca 55 persons); Request to declare headquarters of the Lutheran church to be under Swedish protection; Designating separate locations for housing converted Jews; Protest written by Archbishop Seredi for inhumane handling of Jews; Same by bishop L Ravasz; Request to exempt converted Jews from wearing the Yellow star;
Frames
541
Title
Protest against placing Jews into ghetto; Protest against placing converted Jews into ghetto; Acceptance to declare Judaism as a race;; Request to put Jews into work instead of deportation.
Year
1944
Issued by
Ministry of the Interior;
Location
Gyor, Various
Description
Protest by Lutheran Bishop of Gyor against placing Jews into ghetto; Protest for placing into ghetto converted Jews into same place as Jews; Acceptance by the clergy that Jew is a race not religion; Long petition issued by the Alliance of Hungarian Jews with statistical data for usage of Jewish population to work instead of deportation.
Frames
541
Title
Plea by organization of converted Jews to exempt from deportation.
Year
1944
Issued by
Hungarian government
Location
Various
Description
Pleading by Sandor Torok representing the Union of Hungarian Jews to allow Jewish children to be exempt of deportation and rather transported to a foreign country,
Frames
541
Title
Petitions to exempt converted Jews from persecution; Government refusals.
Year
1944
Issued by
various
Location
Various
Description
Several petitions by clergy to government for exempting converted Jews from persecution and requesting to handle them as a separate group; Government refusal of exempting converted Jews from persecution declaring that Judaism is a race and not a religion.
Frames
541
