Baják László Ihász István: The Hungarian National Museum History Exhibition Guide 4 - The short century of survival (1900-1990) (Budapest, 2008)

Room 19. From the Successes of Revision to German and Russian Occupation (1938-1945). István Ihász

The so-called protection meant the help of neutral countries (Vatican, Sweden, Portugal, Spain) and the Swiss Red Cross, who provided foreign citizenship for several ten-thousands of Hungarian Jews on the condition that they would later emigrate to Palestine. On 21

st June the Jewish inhabitants of Budapest had to move to alloted houses marked by yellow stars. From there they had to move to the buildings of the international ghetto created in the second half of November 1944. After the coup d'Etat of the Nyilas (Hungarian Arrow Cross Party) on 15

th October, the protected Jews were also found subjected to the Nyilas authorities and to the arbitrary terror of various armed groups. / Yellow star, April 1944 (cloth badge) Swedish letter of safe conduct, August 1944