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About 6,300 registration
forms belonging to Holocaust victims have been discovered in a crack in a wall
of a Budapest home. The
building is in the center of the Hungarian capital, near the parliament.
While
renovating his apartment on the fourth floor of the building, the owner
examined a crack in the wall, and found a cavity filled with thousands of
documents.
RT report continues:
The
documents turned out to be 6,300 forms used to register the Budapest Jewish
population in 1944, and are “of historical importance,” according to the
director general of the Budapest City Archives, Istvan Kenyeres, as cited by
the local media outlet Krone.
As
to how these documents happened to be behind the wall, and who might have
stored them, one can only speculate, Kenyeres added. The city archives’
employees are investigating the history of the house.
The
registration cards were sent to all homeowners, and had to be completed within
24 hours. The information on the forms included names of the owners, the
tenants, rent figures, as well as the number of Christians and Jews.
On
June 21, 1944, the Jewish inhabitants of Budapest were forced to leave their
homes.
About
600,000 Hungarian Jews were murdered during the Holocaust. The majority of them
were sent to Auschwitz.
There should be many more
documents, because the ones discovered list the Jewish population of just four
districts: 11, 12, 13, and 14.
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