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Union générale des israélites de France registration records

Document | Not Digitized | Accession Number: 1999.A.0071 | RG Number: RG-43.051M

Overview

Description: Contains Folder 22.3 from YIVO Record Group 210. File of about 35,000 Union Générale des Israélites de France (UGIF) membership index cards for the occupied zone. The cards served to register and control the payments to the UGIF. Each card contains the following information: family last name; first name; date and place of birth; sex; citizenship; occupation; address; identification number; date of issuance and by whom issued; and place of registration in accordance with the ordinance of October 18, 1940, or the Law of June 2, 1941. The bottom of each card bears a UGIF serial number.
Date: inclusive: 1940-1944
Credit Line: Cite YIVO Institute for Jewish Research as custodian of the original records

Physical Details

Language: French
Extent: 25 microfilm reels ; 35 mm.
System of Arrangement: Organized alphabetically by last name.

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: For scholarly use only, no reproduction without permission. Files shall not be copied or shared in any way with another individual or institution. Information on these files of a personal or confidential nature shall not be shared with third parties, neither through hard copy printouts nor by making copied files. For permission to reproduce documents write to the Chief Archivist, YIVO Archives at: reference@yivo.org.
Copyright Holder: Yivo Institute for Jewish Research

Keywords & Subjects

Topical Term: Jews--France. Jewish councils--France. Jews--Legal status, laws, etc.--France. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--France. Jewish leadership--France.
Geographic Name: France--History--German occupation, 1940-1945.
Corporate Name: Union générale des israélites de France

Administrative Notes

Holder of Originals: Yivo Institute for Jewish Research
Legal Status: Permanent Collection
Provenance: The UGIF index cards are a part of record group 210 at YIVO Institute for Jewish Research in New York City. YIVO archivist Zosa Szajkowski arranged the collection in alphabetical order in1957. A grant from the S.H. and Helen R. Scheuer Foundation assisted in further processing in 1988. Centre de Documentation Juive Contemporaine in Paris and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum provided additional funds for the microfilming of Folder 22.3 in 1998. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the microfilm in May 1999.

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