Selected records from collection DXLIX, Archives of the Sixième et de la Resistance Juives
Extent and Medium
1 microfilm reel, 35 mm
Archival History
Mémorial de la Shoah, Centre de Documentation Juive Contemporaine
Acquisition
Source of acquisition is the Mémorial de la Shoah, Centre de Documentation Juive Contemporaine (Collection DXLIX). The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the collection via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum International Archives Programs Division in 1998.
Scope and Content
Contains forged, falsified, and stolen documents used by the French Jewish rescue organization “Sixième” in the conduct of their operations during the German occupation of France.
System of Arrangement
Arrangement is thematic
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Copyright Holder: Mémorial de la Shoah, Centre de Documentation Juive Contemporaine
Corporate Bodies
- Vichy Regime
Subjects
- Jews--Persecutions--France.
- France--German occupation, 1940-1945.
- Escapes--Europe--History--20th century.
- World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--France.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--France.
Genre
- Document
Copies
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum holds copies of Holocaust-relevant archives from Mémorial de la Shoah, Centre de Documentation Juive Contemporaine