Munkaszolgálatos gyűjtemény 1939-1945

No online finding aids available. Due to privacy regulations, the list of the names of the donors cannot be displayed here, but it is available upon request at the institution. Scholars can only use on-site finding aids, including MS Excel datasheets and hard copies of repositories. Introduced in 1939, the Labour Service was a specific form of Hungarian military duty during WWII. The nationalistic Hungarian state considered certain minority groups politically unreliable and forced them to perform unarmed service in the army. The majority of the labour servicemen were Jewish, with conscription for other targeted groups only selectively implemented. Before Germany’s occupation of Hungary in March, 1944, at least 25,000 Jewish labor servicemen were killed on the eastern front, many by the Hungarian military. At the turn of 1944-1945, thousands were deported to Germany. The labour service collection contain documents produced by state or municipal agencies, such as identification cards, ration cards, travel permits and various types of certificates as well as private documents of the labour servicemen including diaries, notebooks, photos and thousands of postcards Private collections