Selected Records from the Departmental Archives of the Alpes-Maritimes. 1933-1972
Extent and Medium
128,205 digital images, JPEG
31 microfilm reels, 16 mm
15 microfilm reels, 35 mm
21 DVD-ROMs, 4 3/4 in.
Archival History
Archives départementales des Alpes-Maritimes
Acquisition
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the collection from the Departmental Archives of the Alpes-Maritimes, via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s International Archives Project in November 2009.
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the collection from the Archives départementales des Alpes-Maritimes via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s International Archives Project in November 2009, and accretion in Nov. 2019.
Scope and Content
Contains records directly linked to the war: internments for administrative or “political” reasons; purges; surveillance of political parties; freemasons (“Sociétés Secrètes) and the press; food distribution and rationing; non-Jewish laborers requisitioned to work in Germany (“STO”); military affairs; prisoners; refugees; supervision of real estate transactions; sequestered property; affairs related to German or Italian occupation; war damages; veterans’ affairs; judicial matters and lawsuits; as well as the Armistice Commission. Also contains material indirectly related to the war: public health sector; police prefecture authority over foreigners; departments dealing with hospitals and government employees (“fonctionnaires”); the department of agriculture; public education; and court records. Additional materials accreted in 2019 consist of 02MI 0366/30 (Original call number 3U/2/1157) related to judicial affairs from 1933. The archival regulations changed in France in 2008, the delay before the documents became publicly accessible was reduced to 75 years.
System of Arrangement
Arrangement is thematic.
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Copyright Holder: Archives départementales des Alpes-Maritimes
Subjects
- France--History--German occupation, 1940-1945.
- World War, 1939-1945--France.
- World War, 1939-1945--Deportations from France.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--France.
- Freemasonry--France.
- Jews--Legal status, laws, etc.--France--History--20th century.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--France.
- World War, 1939-1945--Confiscations and contributions--France.
Genre
- Document
Copies
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum holds copies of Holocaust-relevant archives from Archives départementales des Alpes-Maritimes
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USHMM holds copies of Holocaust-relevant archives from the Archives départementales des Alpes-Maritimes grouped under "Selected records of the Departmental Archives of the Alpes-Maritimes". Detailed finding aids of the copies made by USHMM are available via the USHMM collection description.