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Selected records from the Archives of the Department of the Calvados

Document | Digitized | Accession Number: 2009.222 | RG Number: RG-43.118M

Overview

Description: This collection was created by picking relevant documents from collections deposited at the archives by several local administrative divisions, and from the pre-war “M” series related to foreigners and immigration. The most relevant documents concern lists of Jewish inhabitants, card files made from gathering names and correspondence in relation to this, as well as files concerning the Aryanisation of property and businesses. The Aryanisation files deal almost exclusively with businesses and real estate and not with investments in businesses or shares of stock. The procedure for each file includes: a declaration of ownership made by a Jew, who is then attributed an Aryan temporary administrator; a preliminary report by the “temporary administrator” to the Commissariat Générale aux Questions Juives; a more extensive report on the owner, the estimated value or the one that has been established by an assessor, the final destination of the property (sale for large businesses, liquidation for small ones); and sale or liquidation of the property. Other documents concern secret societies and freemasons, the sub-prefecture of Bayeux, and the sub-prefecture of Vire.
Date: inclusive: 1940-1947

Physical Details

Language: French German
Extent: 14,767 digital images : JPEG ; 8.45 GB.
17 microfilm reels ; 35 mm.
2 DVDs ; 4 3/4 in..
3 pages of photocopies.
System of Arrangement: Arrangement is thematic.

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: Authorization from the Director of the Archives of the Department of the Calvados required to duplicate microfilm reels for other archives. No publication of materials on the Internet, World Wide Web, or similar network without the permission of the Director of the Archives of the Department of the Calvados.
Copyright Holder: Archives départementales du Calvados

Keywords & Subjects

Topical Term: World War, 1939-1945. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Jews--Legal status, laws, etc.--France--History--20th century.

Administrative Notes

Holder of Originals: Archives départementales du Calvados
Legal Status: Permanent Collection
Provenance: The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the collection from the Archives départementales du Calvados via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s International Archives Project in October 2009.

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