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Our Mission
Our Foundation Was Established to Rescue the Hidden Memories of Hungarian History. Our primary goal is to facilitate the transfer of privately held documents and photographs into public collections, ensuring that these valuable items are preserved in appropriate institutions and have a greater chance of surviving for future generations. For those who prefer to keep their ancestors’ relics in their homes, we offer to create secure digital copies. With proper permissions, and in accordance with the owner’s wishes, these can be shared with the public, made accessible for historical research, or simply archived for long-term preservation.
We would like to draw the attention of the dear reader to the fact that we only report on our website about those backups for which the Foundation has the legal right to do so. In the case of documents donated to the Foundation or digital backup copies, we fully take into account the intention of the donor or owner regarding disclosure.
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Thanks to the efforts of the Iratmentő Foundation, a significant document has recently been transferred to the Hungarian National Archives.…
At the end of 2025, the holdings of the Hungarian National Archives were enriched—thanks to the Document Rescue Foundation—by nearly…

In 2025, the Document Rescue Foundation saved two Budapest resident registration books—one from District VI and one from District XIII—from…
Foreign patents of arms from the sixteenth century (or earlier) are rare within the holdings of the National Archives. For…

At the beginning of his reign, on 12 January 1837, King Ferdinand V of Hungary granted Hungarian nobility and a…

Emperor Franz Joseph of Austria, King of Hungary issued this patent of arms in Vienna on 23 January 1911, by…
Monument of the month: Cseklész, Esterházy Castle, the “real home of entertainment”
