Selected records from the Ministère des Anciens Combattants et Victimes de Guerre

Document | Digitized | Accession Number: 1998.A.0045 | RG Number: RG-43.138M

Overview

Description: Contains records from various concentration and other camps, includes mainly various name lists, statistics, reports, questioners, correspondence, and testimonies. Included are camp medical records, lists of deportees, and internees, list of arrivals and prisoners, registers of deaths and death certifications, lists of capos and gestapo agents, general camp statistics and registers, general camp documentation, witness reports and testimonies about living conditions, 1945-1965; lists of survivors, reports of special commissions after liberation, excerpts of the journal of war orphans, correspondence about pseudo-medical experiments and liquid mustard gas used on the prisoners, and personal objects that belonged to deportees, etc. It relates mainly to Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen, Buchenwald, Dachau, Flossenbürg, Gross-Rosen, Stuthoff, Lublin-Majdanek, Mauthausen, Mittelbau, Natzweiler, Neuengamme, Ravensbrück, Sachsenhausen, Schrimeck-Vorbrueck, and Theresienstadt, and other concentration camps.
Date: inclusive: 1940-1945

Conditions on Access: This material can only be accessed in a Museum reading room or other on-campus viewing stations. No other access restrictions apply to this material.
Conditions on Use: Researchers must acknowledge in writing that the use of the microfilmed documents is governed by the principles of fair use of the Berne Convention of 1886 as amended for the protection of literary and artistic works. No document microfilmed shall be distributed on the Internet, World Wide Web or any other computer network accessible to the public without the express prior agreement of the Directorate of the French National Archives. Any commercial use of the reproduction of microfilmed documents require prior written consent of the Directorate of the French National Archives, and pay a fee for such use.
Copyright Holder: Archives nationales (France)

Topical Term: Concentration camp inmates.
Corporate Name: Auschwitz (Concentration camp) Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp) Buchenwald (Concentration camp) Dachau (Concentration camp) Flossenbürg (Concentration camp) Gross-Rosen (Concentration camp) Majdanek (Concentration camp) Neuengamme (Concentration camp) Ravensbrück (Concentration camp) Sachsenhausen (Concentration camp) Schirmeck-Vorbrück (Concentration camp) Stutthof (Concentration camp) Theresienstadt (Concentration camp)

Holder of Originals: Office national des anciens combattants et victimes de guerre
Legal Status: Permanent Collection
Provenance: After liberation, the records were collected from camps by camp survivors and relief agencies in order to facilitate the disposition of displaced persons, provide evidence of crimes, and supply proof of internment for restitution purposes. Source of acquisition is the Ministère des Anciens Combattants et Victimes de Guerre, Caen, France.