Overview
- Description
- Collection includes records from sources including the departmental committee on the liberation of the region; and the cabinet of the prefecture and the sub-prefecture at Prades. Topics include internment camps; the Rivesaltes military and internment camps; the fortress at Perpignan; correspondence, denunciations, and dossiers on individuals; international brigades returning from Spain; Spanish refugees; staff of internment camps; Polish refugees in France; arrests and detentions; Jewish internees at Rivesaltes; and other internees.
- Date
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inclusive:
1908-1976
- 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
- Genre/Form
- Registers.
- Extent
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19 microfilm reels (digitized) ; 35 mm.
13 microfilm reels (digitized) ; 16 mm.
digital images.
- System of Arrangement
- Organized in order of selected records from series W: 26W, 31W, 38W, 39W, 41W, 68W, 109W, 134W, 1260W, 1287W, 1787W. Arrangement is thematic and alphabetical.
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
- Reproduction of microfilm reels for other archives must receive the permission of the Director of Archives Départementales des Pyrénées-Atlaniques
- Copyright Holder
- Archives départementales des Pyrénées-Orientales
Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--France. World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, French. World War, 1939-1945--Refugees--Registers. Prisoners of war--France. Medical records.
- Geographic Name
- France--History--German occupation, 1940-1945. D'Argelés-sur-Mer (France) Le Barcarés (France) Saint-Cyprien (France) Vernet (France)
- Corporate Name
- Rivesaltes (Concentration camp)
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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Archives départementales des Pyrénées-Orientales
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- From the Archives départementales des Pyrénées-Orientales (Eastern Pyrenees), France. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the filmed collection via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum International Archives Program in Aug. 2002.
- Special Collection
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Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2022-07-28 18:10:13
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