World War II Selected Records from the French National Archives: 72 AJ Seconde Guerre Mondiale

Identifier
irn737871
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2021.200.1
  • RG-43.180
Dates
1 Jan 1940 - 31 Dec 1983
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • French
Source
EHRI Partner

Extent and Medium

9,455 digital images, JPEG

Archival History

Archives nationales (France)

Acquisition

Source of acquisition is the Archives nationales (French National Archives). The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the collection via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s International Archives Project in December 2021.

Scope and Content

The collection includes selected records from the Archives of the Second World War History Committee and private papers. Records include the memoirs of Colonel de Milleret, an organization chart of the German services in France, a lexicon of French resistance, personal narratives, reports, and printed materials. The records document the confiscation of illicit profits, the establishment of German troops in France during the Second World War, and the French resistance. The collection also includes records documenting Professor Duvoir’s participation in the International Commission of Forensic Investigation into the mass grave in Vinnytsia (Ukraine) in 1943 including reports, research, witness statements, autopsies, maps, photographs, a victim list, and clippings. The collection further includes records documenting the Association of the deportees of Oranienburg-Sachsenhausen and André Boullouche, former resistant and deportee.

System of Arrangement

The files are arranged by file number.

Conditions Governing Reproduction

Copyright Holder: Archives nationales (France)

Subjects

Genre

This description is derived directly from structured data provided to EHRI by a partner institution. This collection holding institution considers this description as an accurate reflection of the archival holdings to which it refers at the moment of data transfer.