Selected records from the Ministère des Anciens Combattants et Victimes de Guerre
Extent and Medium
59 microfilm reels (digitized), 16 mm
digital images,
Archival History
Office national des anciens combattants et victimes de guerre
Acquisition
After liberation, the records were collected from camps by camp survivors and relief agencies in order to facilitate the disposition of displaced persons, provide evidence of crimes, and supply proof of internment for restitution purposes. Source of acquisition is the Ministère des Anciens Combattants et Victimes de Guerre, Caen, France.
Scope and Content
Contains records from various concentration and other camps, includes mainly various name lists, statistics, reports, questioners, correspondence, and testimonies. Included are camp medical records, lists of deportees, and internees, list of arrivals and prisoners, registers of deaths and death certifications, lists of capos and gestapo agents, general camp statistics and registers, general camp documentation, witness reports and testimonies about living conditions, 1945-1965; lists of survivors, reports of special commissions after liberation, excerpts of the journal of war orphans, correspondence about pseudo-medical experiments and liquid mustard gas used on the prisoners, and personal objects that belonged to deportees, etc. It relates mainly to Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen, Buchenwald, Dachau, Flossenbürg, Gross-Rosen, Stuthoff, Lublin-Majdanek, Mauthausen, Mittelbau, Natzweiler, Neuengamme, Ravensbrück, Sachsenhausen, Schrimeck-Vorbrueck, and Theresienstadt, and other concentration camps.
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Copyright Holder: Archives nationales (France)
Corporate Bodies
- Ravensbrück (Concentration camp)
- Gross-Rosen (Concentration camp)
- Buchenwald (Concentration camp)
- Dachau (Concentration camp)
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
- Stutthof (Concentration camp)
- Schirmeck-Vorbrück (Concentration camp)
- Flossenbürg (Concentration camp)
- Majdanek (Concentration camp)
- Neuengamme (Concentration camp)
- Theresienstadt (Concentration camp)
- Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp)
- Sachsenhausen (Concentration camp)
Subjects
Genre
- Document
Copies
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USHMM holds copies of Holocaust-relevant archives from the Office National des Anciens Combattants et Victimes de Guerre grouped under "Selected records from the Ministère des Anciens Combattants et Victimes de Guerre". Detailed finding aids of the copies made by USHMM are available via the USHMM collection description.
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum holds copies of Holocaust-relevant archives from Archives Nationales, Secretariat d'Etat aux Anciens Combattants