Overview
- Description
- This collection contains police records, including files on national security, the General Secretariat of the Police, the campaign against “terrorism” organized by Vichy, internment camps, and records of the Fichier Central in the Cabinet du Directeur Général de la Sureté Nationale. The collection also includes correspondence and other documents confiscated from emigrants, lists of foreign Jews who were arrested and interned (arranged by country of origin), the personal records of various public figures, newspaper clippings, surveillance reports, and mixed documents.
More specifically, the collection contains: National security, 1885-1944; General Secretariat of the Police, 1941-1944; Campaign against "terrorism" organized by Vichy; Camps d'internement, 1940-49; Records of the Fichier Central in the Cabinet du Directeur General de la Sûreté Nationale, 1935-1944. Collection is comprised of correspondence and other documents confiscated from emigrants, lists of foreign Jews arrested and interned (arranged by country of origin),1942-43, personal records of various public figures, newspapers clippings, surveillance reports, and mixed documents, 1924-1962. Surveillance reports include: Germans in France, 1920-1940; Spanish refugees in France, 1921-1940; Poles in France, 1920-1940.
The collection further contains records documenting the liquidation of internment camps, 1946-1956; files from the so-called “Fonds Panthéon” (named for the celebrity or notoriety of the individuals included); records and decrees documenting the status of foreigners, 1929-1967. - Date
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inclusive:
1885-1967
- 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
- Extent
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39 microfilm reels ; 16 mm.
- System of Arrangement
- Organized by the following files: National security, 1885-1944; General Secretariat of the Police, 1941-1944; Campaign against "terrorism" organized by Vichy; Camps d'internement, 1940-49; Records of the Fichier Central in the Cabinet du Directeur General de la Sûreté Nationale, 1935-1944. Name lists of foreign Jews arrested and interned organized by country of origin. Liquidation of internment camps; Files from the set known as "Fonds Panthéon"; Status of foreigners during the Second World War, decrees concerning foreigners
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
- No document microfilmed shall be distributed on the Internet, World Wide Web or any other computer network accessible to the public without the express prior agreement of the Directorate of the French National Archives. Any commercial use of the reproduction of microfilmed documents require prior written consent of the Directorate of the French National Archives, and pay a fee for such use.
- Copyright Holder
- Archives nationales (France)
Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- Refugees, Jewish--France--History--20th century. Refugees, Polish--France--History--20th century. Refugees, Spanish--France--History--20th century. World War, 1939-1945--Refugees--France. World War, 1939-1945--Collaborationists--France. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Registers. Police--France--Sources. Executive departments.
- Geographic Name
- France--Politics and government--20th century. France--History--German occupation, 1940-1945. Vichy (France)--Politics and government. France
- Personal Name
- Trotsky, Leon, 1879-1940. Bucard, Marcel. Grumbach, Solomon. Guerin, Jules. Guilbeax, Henri. Henriot, Philippe, 1889-1944. Hirth, Friedrich, 1878- Pelletier, Robert, 1881-1941. Maurras, Charles, 1868-1952. Mandel, Georges, 1885-1944. Blum, Léon, 1872-1950. Daudet, Léon, 1867-1942. Laval, Pierre, 1883-1945. Déat, Marcel, 1894-. Doriot, Jacques, 1898-1945. Lattre, Jean de, 1889-1952. Marty, André, 1886-1956. Rothschild, Edmond de, -1997.
- Corporate Name
- Drancy (Internament camp) Pithiviers (Concentration camp) Beaune-la-Rolande (Concentration camp) Récébédou (Concentration camp) Noé (Concentration camp) Mérignac (Concentration camp) Fort Barraux (Concentration camp) Jargeau (Concentration camp) Montreuil-Bellay (Concentration camp) Le Vernet (Concentration camp)
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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Archives nationales (France)
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Source of acquisition is the National Archives of France (Archives Nationales), Paris, Fond F7. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the filmed collection via the United States Holocaust Museum International Programs Division in Dec. 2000 and an accretion of digitized microfilm in Jan. 2022.
- Special Collection
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Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2023-06-12 15:31:35
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