Oral history interviews of the France Documentation Project

Identifier
irn508106
Language of Description
English
Level of Description
Collection
Source
EHRI Partner

Acquisition

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Branch produced interviews for its France Documentation Project beginning in 1997 with support from a grant from Jeff and Toby Herr. The Museum designated Nathan Beyrak as the project director from 1997 to 2000. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the interviews beginning in 2000.

Scope and Content

Oral history interviews with witnesses to the Holocaust recorded by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum as part of the France Documentation Project. Interviews include testimonies from French witnesses to the Holocaust, individuals who had been part of the Vichy regime, Nazi war criminal hunters, the last surviving member of the Commissariat General aux Question Juives - the Vichy government bureau of Jewish affairs responsible for the deportation of French Jews, and two former French policemen, one of whom provides an account of how orders were given to arrest Jews and procedures for making arrests.

Genre

  • Collection
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