Mentesítések Észak-Erdélyben 1941-ben
Waivers to the anti-Jewish laws in Northern Transylvania in 1941
Author(s): Attila GidóSubject(s): Interwar Period (1920 - 1939), Fascism, Nazism and WW II, History of the Holocaust, History of Antisemitism
Published by: MTA Társadalomtudományi Kutatóközpont Kisebbsegkutató Intézet
Keywords: anti-Jewish legislation; exemptions; Hungarian-Jewish relations; Holocaust; Northern Transylvania
Summary/Abstract: Waivers to the anti-Jewish laws (i.e., occasional application of procedures overwriting the racial categorization of the law) occured, just like in other parts of Hungary, in Northern Transylvania as well. The paper discusses the mechanism of exemptions: the legal and administrative framework of the waivers in 1941, and the people who were granted the waiver. Only those cases are discussed where the waiver was based on the merits gained between 1918 and 1940 as members of the minority community (e.g. participating in the minority Hungarian fights or imprisonment for remaining loyal to the Hungarian community). Waivers granted on the basis of ancestry or other criteria are not included in the scope of the research, nor are the lifesaving acts that occured during the 1944 deportations, as they happened under completely different legal, social, and domestic circumstances.
Journal: Regio
- Issue Year: 25/2017
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 109-146
- Page Count: 38
- Language: Hungarian