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Selected records from the Departmental Archives of the Deux-Sèvres

Document | Digitized | Accession Number: 2010.234 | RG Number: RG-43.135M

Overview

Description: Contains records relating to refugees, including Italians; instructions concerning lists of Jews, their professions, and the confiscation of their property; the appointment of Aryan administrators; the confiscation of radios belonging to Jews; the distribution of Jewish stars; medical examinations of the Jewish population; and documents concerning Roma.
Date: inclusive: 1881-1950

Physical Details

Language: French German
Extent: 7,565 digital images : JPEG ; 4.84 GB.
16 microfilm reels ; 16 mm.
2 DVD-ROMs ; 4 3/4 in..
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. Sections from 158 W 144 and 158 W 146, totaling 206 pages, are not yet open to the public and were reproduced separately. They will be transferred to the USHMM Archives when they are no longer classified. Some concern privacy issues for medical files. They will become available 75 years after the last date on a document. Some will be accessible in 2016.
Conditions on Use: Authorization from the Director of the Departmental Archives of the Deux-Sèvres 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 Deux-Sèvres.
Copyright Holder: Archives départementales des Deux-Sèvres

Keywords & Subjects

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

Administrative Notes

Holder of Originals: Archives départementales des Deux-Sèvres
Legal Status: Permanent Collection
Provenance: The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the collection from the Archives départementales des Deux-Sèvres via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s International Archives Project in September 2010.

Record last modified:: 2022-07-28 17:44:00
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