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Selected documents from the Departmental Archives of the Indre

Document | Digitized | Accession Number: 2010.72 | RG Number: RG-43.133M

Overview

Description: Contains records from local offices including the Prefect’s office and the Police Department dealing with foreigners, the “Jewish question”, the demarcation line between the occupied and unoccupied zones, and refugees, including those from Alsace-Lorraine. Documents from the sub-prefecture of La Châtre (3 Z) are also included, as well as the “Internernent Administratif” section dealing with the camps of Pellevoisin and Douadic. Also contains information on an OSE-created clandestine center to place Jewish children in non-Jewish families in the “chef-lieu, Châteauroux,” lists of arrests and executions by the German, reports, information on the internment center Laernusse and on individual internees, and information on several work brigades or “Groupement de Travailleurs Etrangers” in the camp of Montgivray near La Châtre.
Date: inclusive: 1939-1946

Physical Details

Language: French German
Extent: 6,233 digital images : JPEG ; 6.09 GB .
4 microfilm reels ; 16 mm.
3 photocopies : PDF.
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 Departmental Archives of the Indre 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 Departmental Archives of the Indre.
Copyright Holder: Archives départementales de l’Indre

Keywords & Subjects

Topical Term: World War, 1939-1945. Jews--Legal status, laws, etc.--France--History--20th century. World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--France. Forced labor--France.
Geographic Name: France--History--German occupation, 1940-1945.

Administrative Notes

Holder of Originals: Archives départementales de l’Indre
Legal Status: Permanent Collection
Provenance: The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the collection from the Archives départementales de l’Indre via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s International Archives Project in May 2010.

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