Report from Drancy concentration camp

Identifier
irn699014
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2019.229.1
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Yiddish
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn699014

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection. The acquisition of this collection was made possible by Lila Oliver Asher

Funding Note: The acquisition of this artifact was made possible by Lila Oliver Asher.

Funding Note: The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.

The report was acquired by the United States Holocast Memorial Museum in 2019.

Scope and Content

Three typewritten pages documenting the first stages of the Holocaust of the Jews of France and the state of affairs within the Drancy concentration camp a few months after it was established in August 1941. The letter begins with a general description of the situation outside of the camp (arrests, attempts for family members to visit) and then includes a detailed description of living conditions in the camp (sleeping on floors, food rations, punishments). The bulk of the letter is dedicated to describing protests of Jewish physicians at the camp and the order to release prisoners whose conditions were especially bad.

System of Arrangement

The report from Drancy concentration camp is a single document.

Corporate Bodies

  • Drancy (Internament camp)

Subjects

Genre

  • Reports.
  • Document
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