Overview
- Description
- Correspondence, reports, circulars, alphabetical registration files of internees, transfer lists and medical records of internees, alphabetical lists of Jews under house arrest, related to internment camps in France, including Gurs, Saint-Cyprien and Polo-Beyris in Bayonne. Also contains records relating to financial aid of Union Générale des Israélites de France (UGIF), the Red Cross, the Quakers, and Aide aux Réfugés (section d'Oloron); art activities of internees; resistance correspondence; records on crime (1941-1945); prostitution (1944-1945); and some photographs of crime victims and religious ceremonies.
- Date
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inclusive:
1912-1953
- Credit Line
- Forms part of the Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. This archive consists of documentation whose reproduction and/or acquisition was made possible with funding from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
Physical Details
- Language
- French
- Genre/Form
- Registers. Photographs.
- Extent
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268,738 digital images : JPEG ; 327 GB .
53 microfilm reels (digitized) ; 16 mm.
3 microfilm reels (digitized) ; 35 mm.
- System of Arrangement
- Organization is thematic and alphabetical order of selected records from series W
Rights & Restrictions
- 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
- Reproduction of microfilm reels for other archives must receive permission of the Director of Archives départementales des Pyrénées-Atlantiques
- Copyright Holder
- Archives départementales des Pyrénées-Atlantiques
Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--France. World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, French. World War, 1939-1945--Refugees--Registers. Prisoners of war--France. War crimes--France. World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements. Medical records. Prisoners as artists.
- Geographic Name
- France--History--German occupation, 1940-1945. Gurs (France) Saint-Cyprien (France) Polo-Beyris a Bayonne (France)
- Corporate Name
- Union générale des israélites de France
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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Archives départementales des Pyrénées-Atlantiques
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- From the Archives Départementales des Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the filmed collection via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum International Archives Program in Aug. 2002.
- Special Collection
-
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2023-08-25 15:25:47
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn512164
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