Selected records from the Departmental Archives of the Alpes de Haute Provence
Extent and Medium
25,698 digital images, JPEG
6 microfilm reels (digitized), 16 mm
Archival History
Archives départementales des Alpes-de-Haute-Provence
Acquisition
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the collection from the Departmental Archives of the Alpes de Haute Provence, via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's International Archives Project in October, 2006.
Scope and Content
This collection contains material pertaining to Jews residing in the Alpes de Haute-Provence, and to the administrative procedures for arresting and holding Jews in internment camps there. The prewar Department of the Basses-Alpes had no Jewish population, but became a refuge for Jews fleeing the Occupied Zone in the North for the Italian-occupied (before November 1942) portion of the South. The citadel of Sisteron became an internment camp, and Jews were kept under house arrest in several communes (rural districts).
System of Arrangement
Arrangement is thematic
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Copyright Holder: Archives départementales des Alpes-de-Haute-Provence
Subjects
- Jews--Legal status, laws, etc.--France--History--20th century.
- France--History--German occupation, 1940-1945.
- France--Politics and government--1914-1940.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--France.
- Jews--France--History.
Genre
- Document
Copies
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum holds copies of Holocaust-relevant archives from Archives départementales des Alpes-de-Haute-Provence
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USHMM holds copies of Holocaust-relevant archives from the Archives départementales des Alpes-de-Haute-Provence grouped under "Selected records of the Departmental Archives of the Alpes de Haute Provence". Detailed finding aids of the copies made by USHMM are available via the USHMM collection description.