Language:
English
Year of publication:
2004
Titel der Quelle:
Yad Vashem Studies
Angaben zur Quelle:
32 (2004) 59-96
Keywords:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Influence
;
War crime trials
;
Jews Persecutions 20th century
;
History
Abstract:
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.
Note:
In Hebrew:
,
"יד ושם; קובץ מחקרים" לב (תשסד) 47-77
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