Overview
- Description
- Contains administrative accounting files from Drancy (Comptes de Drancy, Préfecture Archives: boxes GB 1–16) recording money, jewelry, and other property confiscated from Jews entering the internment camp. The collection also includes various occupation-related materials (Préfecture Archives: BA Series) on topics such as German spies and agents; the assassination of German military personnel; sabotage; pacifists; the German occupation of Paris; cooperation between French and German police; press censorship; Jewish communities in France; measures against Jews; Drancy, Camp de Saint Denis, and other camps; lists of interned communists; the activities of Organisation Todt; Freemasonry in France; executions by German authorities; Léon Blum; and liberation. Also included are files related to art objects confiscated by German occupation authorities (Préfecture Archives PV Series).
- Date
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inclusive:
1852-1962
Physical Details
- Language
- French
- Extent
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5,118 digital images : JPEG ; 1.38 GB.
30 microfilm reels (digitized) ; 16 mm.
- System of Arrangement
- Organized into four series: Series 1. Accounting records from the internment camp at Drancy; Series 2. The list of fine art objects seized by German authorities; Series 3. Records related to police operations during occupation; Series 4. Personal files for people under police surveillance.
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
- Resercher must request a permission of any larger reproduction, only a few pages of photocopies are acceptable.
- Copyright Holder
- Prefecture of Police of Paris
Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- Police--France--Sources. World War, 1939-1945--Collaborationists--France. World War, 1939-1945--Confiscations and contributions--France. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Registers. Art thieves--France. Art treasures in war--France. Art thefts--France. Jewish property--France. Police.
- Geographic Name
- France--History--German occupation, 1940-1945. France--Politics and government--1940-1945. Vichy (France)--Politics and government. Paris (France)
- Personal Name
- Blum, Léon, 1872-1950.
- Corporate Name
- Drancy (Internament camp)
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
-
Prefecture of Police of Paris
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Records from Archives de la Préfecture de Police de Paris. Filming of the documents was completed by DPCi, Paris. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum received the film on 14 June 2001. Series BA was accreted to the collection on 14 April 2008.
- Record last modified:
- 2023-06-26 07:01:43
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn508549
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