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The Hungarian Holocaust as reflected in the People's Court trials in Budapest

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Title The Hungarian Holocaust as reflected in the People's Court trials in Budapest.
Host Item Yad Vashem Studies 32 (2004) 59-96
Description People's courts were established in Hungary by postwar leftist authorities in the spring of 1945, and functioned until 1950. Almost every third trial conducted by these courts in 1945-46 was connected with the persecution of Jews during the Horthy and Szálasi regimes. Examining 748 trials held in Budapest in 1946, shows that the people's judiciary body in postwar Hungary was neither an instrument of bloody revenge on the part of (Jewish) communists, nor was it lenient toward those who enthusiastically participated in the Holocaust. The people's jurisdiction followed European practice in prosecuting and punishing war criminals. Shows, also, that People's Court papers can be a historical source, the most valuable of them being depositions of witnesses - e.g. they shed light on the character of Hungarian rescuers, as well as on denunciations of Jews by Hungarians. (From the Bibliography of the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism - The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
In Hebrew:
"יד ושם
קובץ מחקרים" לב (תשסד) 47-77
Language English
Credits באדיבות יש ושם – רשות הזיכרון לשואה ולגבורה Courtesy of Yad Vashem - The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
National Library system number 990004238900705171
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