Selected records from the Departmental Archives of the Pyrénées-Atlantiques
Extent and Medium
268,738 digital images, JPEG
53 microfilm reels (digitized), 16 mm
3 microfilm reels (digitized), 35 mm
Archival History
Archives départementales des Pyrénées-Atlantiques
Acquisition
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.
From the Archives Départementales des Pyrénées-Atlantiques, 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.
Scope and Content
Correspondence, reports, circulars, alphabetical registration files of internees, transfer lists and medical records of internees, alphabetical lists of Jews under house arrest, related to internment camps in France, including Gurs, Saint-Cyprien and Polo-Beyris in Bayonne. Also contains records relating to financial aid of Union Générale des Israélites de France (UGIF), the Red Cross, the Quakers, and Aide aux Réfugés (section d'Oloron); art activities of internees; resistance correspondence; records on crime (1941-1945); prostitution (1944-1945); and some photographs of crime victims and religious ceremonies.
System of Arrangement
Organization is thematic and alphabetical order of selected records from series W
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Copyright Holder: Archives départementales des Pyrénées-Atlantiques
Corporate Bodies
- Union générale des israélites de France
Subjects
- Polo-Beyris a Bayonne (France)
- Medical records.
- War crimes--France.
- Gurs (France)
- Saint-Cyprien (France)
- World War, 1939-1945--Refugees--Registers.
- France--History--German occupation, 1940-1945.
- World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements.
- World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, French.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--France.
- Prisoners of war--France.
- Prisoners as artists.
Genre
- Registers.
- Photographs.
- Document
Copies
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The collection "Selected records from the Departmental Archives of the Pyrénées-Atlantiques" was copied from Archives départementales des Pyrénées-Atlantiques
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum holds copies of Holocaust-relevant archives from Archives départementales des Pyrénées-Atlantiques