Selected records from the Departmental Archives of Dordogne
Extent and Medium
6 microfilm reels, 16 mm
Archival History
Archives départementales de la Dordogne
Acquisition
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the collection from the Archives départementales de la Dordogne via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum International Archives Project Division in June 2004.
Scope and Content
Documents on the persecution of Jews in the Dordogne, including Aryanization and postwar restitution of property; internment in camps; forced labor of foreigners, clandestine passage between the Occupied and Free Zones, exclusion from professions. Included are letters of denunciation, antisemitic flyers, statistics about Jewish residents; other documents concern Freemasons, German war crimes, and postwar Jewish emigration to Israel.
System of Arrangement
Arrangement is thematic
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Copyright Holder: Archives départementales de la Dordogne
Corporate Bodies
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945--Conscript labor--France--Dordogne.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--France--Dordogne.
- Restitution and indemnification claims (1933-)--France--Dordogne.
- Les Milles (Concentration camp)
- Aryanization--France--Dordogne.
- Anti-Jewish propaganda--France--Dordogne.
- Freemasons--France--Dordogne.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--France--Dordogne.
- France--History--German occupation, 1940-1945.
- Jews--Persecutions--France--Dordogne.
Genre
- Document
Copies
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum holds copies of Holocaust-relevant archives from Archives départementales de la Dordogne
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USHMM holds copies of Holocaust-relevant archives from the Archives départementales de la Dordogne grouped under "Selected records from the Departmental Archives of Dordogne". Detailed finding aids of the copies made by USHMM are available via the USHMM collection description.