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Jewish councils or Judenräte (Hungarian: zsidó tanácsok) were administrative bodies in Hungary, which were established following the German invasion of Hungary on 19 March 1944. Similar to elsewhere in German-occupied Europe during World War II , these councils purported to represent local Jewish communities in dealings with the Nazi ...
In April 1997, the Hungarian parliament passed a Jewish compensation act that returns property stolen from Jewish victims during the Nazi and Communist eras. Under this law, property and monetary payment were given back to the Jewish public heritage foundation and to Jewish victims of the Holocaust.
' Jewish council ') was an administrative body established in German-occupied Europe during World War II which purported to represent a Jewish community in dealings with the Nazi authorities. The Germans required Jews to form Judenräte across the occupied territories at local and sometimes national levels.
Members of the Jewish Council of Budapest (6 P) Pages in category "Jewish councils in Hungary" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total.
Under the Second (1939) and Third Jewish Laws (1941), approximately 100,000 Christians were considered Jews. Török was among others. Following the German invasion of Hungary in March 1944, the representation of these people (called Converts) was placed under the jurisdiction of the newly established Jewish councils throughout Hungary.
Miklós Szegő (born Menachem Schützer; 1884 – 4 or 6 January 1945) was a Hungarian Jewish jurist during the World War II.Following the German invasion of Hungary, he took part in organizing Jewish councils in Central Hungary.
The Schism in Hungarian Jewry (Hungarian: ortodox–neológ szakadás, "Orthodox-Neolog Schism"; Yiddish: די טיילונג אין אונגארן, trans. Die Teilung in Ungarn, "The Division in Hungary") was the institutional division of the Jewish community in the Kingdom of Hungary between 1869 and 1871, following a failed attempt to establish a national, united representative organization.
Schwartz returned to Hungary after World War II. The People's Tribunal, alongside Sándor Szűcs, head of the Judenrat in Füzesgyarmat, accused him of war crimes and collaboration with Nazi Germany in 1946. They were the only rural Jewish council leaders accused of Nazi collaboration after the war.