Selected records from the Departmental Archives of the Pyrénées-Orientales
Extent and Medium
19 microfilm reels (digitized), 35 mm
13 microfilm reels (digitized), 16 mm
digital images,
Archival History
Archives départementales des Pyrénées-Orientales
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-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.
Scope and Content
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.
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.
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Copyright Holder: Archives départementales des Pyrénées-Orientales
Corporate Bodies
Subjects
- Vernet (France)
- Saint-Cyprien (France)
- World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, French.
- Medical records.
- Le Barcarés (France)
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--France.
- World War, 1939-1945--Refugees--Registers.
- Prisoners of war--France.
- D'Argelés-sur-Mer (France)
- France--History--German occupation, 1940-1945.
Genre
- Document
- Registers.
Copies
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum holds copies of Holocaust-relevant archives from Archives départementales des Pyrénées-Orientales
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USHMM holds copies of Holocaust-relevant archives from the Archives départementales des Pyrénées-Orientales grouped under "Selected records of the Departmental Archives of the Pyrénées-Orientales". Detailed finding aids of the copies made by USHMM are available via the USHMM collection description.