Hungary’s Museum Bureaucrats and the Machinery of Holocaust Looting
Holocaust Art Recovery Initiative (HARI)
August 4, 2025

In 1944 Hungary’s cultural elite—directors, archivists, abbots, and clerks—did not merely stand idle while 437,000 Jews were deported. They built the paperwork, ordered the trucks, opened the cellars, and stamped the ledgers that made the greatest cultural theft in Hungarian history possible. For eighty years their names have been scattered across microfilm frames. This is the first........

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