Selected records from the Departmental Archives of the Yonne

Identifier
irn35836
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2008.103
  • RG-43.105M
Dates
1 Jan 1921 - 31 Dec 1947
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • French
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn35836

Extent and Medium

15,255 digital images, JPEG

5 microfilm reels, 16 mm

1 microfilm reel, 35 mm

2 CD-ROMs, 4 3/4 in.

25 pages of photocopies,

Archival History

Archives départementales de l’Yonne

Acquisition

The administrative documents are from the prefect's office, the police department responsible for surveillance of foreigners, the department of internment camps, the tax and financial administration, police investigations ("Renseignements Généraux"), the Auxerre prison, the local civil court, and the Comité d'histoire de la Seconde Guerre Mondiale. Source of acquisition is the Departmental Archives of the Yonne (Archives Départementales de l'Yonne). The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the collection via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s International Archives Project in August 2008

Scope and Content

This collection contains records of the internment and forced labor of Roma in the rural area of the Yonne; the former Saint-Maurice-aux-Riches-Hommes train station, used to intern refugees from the Spanish Civil War and subsequently Roma; the internment in Saint-Denis-lès-Sens of Jews, Roma, and foreigners expelled from coastal "zones interdites"; the internment in Vaudeurs of "subversives" and black-marketeers; the use of the jail in Auxerre as way-station for Jews being sent to Drancy; and the internment in the Caserne Goué military barracks in Auxerre of accused Nazi collaborators after the war.

System of Arrangement

Arrangement is thematic.

Conditions Governing Reproduction

Copyright Holder: Archives départementales de l’Yonne

Subjects

  • World War, 1939-1945--France.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--France.
  • Detention of persons--France.
  • Fascism--France.
  • Concentration camp inmates.
  • France--History--German occupation, 1940-1945.
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--France.
  • Jews--France--History.
  • Jews--France--History--20th century.

Genre

  • Document
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.

Copies

  • Archives départementales de l'Yonne

    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum holds copies of Holocaust-relevant archives from Archives départementales de l’Yonne

  • Archives départementales de l'Yonne

    USHMM holds copies of Holocaust-relevant archives from the Archives départementales de l'Yonne grouped under "Selected records of the Departmental Archives of the Yonne". Detailed finding aids of the copies made by USHMM are available via the USHMM collection description.