Selected records from the French Diplomatic Archives in Nantes concerning Palestine

Identifier
irn40181
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2010.139
  • RG-43.134
Dates
1 Jan 1938 - 31 Dec 1949
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • French
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn40181

Extent and Medium

132 pages of photocopies (31 documents),

Archival History

Centre des Archives Diplomatiques de Nantes (France)

Acquisition

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the collection from the Centre des Archives Diplomatiques de Nantes via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s International Archives Project in May 2010.

Scope and Content

Contains a collection of diplomatic dispatches sent to all French diplomats during the period 1938-1949 concerning Palestine. Various subjects discussed include: illicit immigration to Palestine in 1939 (the exodus of Polish Jews toward the Levant); surveillance of the activities of the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem in October, 1939 and his "escape"; Zionist politics; a letter from the French Ambassador to Turkey in 1942 to the Admiral of the Fleet under Vichy in 1942 on the "Strouma Affair" [Struma]; "Jewish Terrorism in Palestine," dated November 9, 1944; the evolution of the Palestinian economy and the projects of the Jewish Agency in November, 1944; and a dispatch from the French Ambassador to the United States to Georges Bidault on 8 February 1948, discussing the United Nations propositions to grant statehood to Israel and the diverging opinions of American diplomats.

System of Arrangement

Arrangement is thematic.

Conditions Governing Reproduction

Copyright Holder: Centre des Archives Diplomatiques de Nantes (France)

Subjects

  • Jews--Legal status, laws, etc.--France--History--20th century.
  • France--History--German occupation, 1940-1945.
  • World War, 1939-1945.

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

  • Centre des Archives diplomatiques de Nantes

    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum holds copies of Holocaust-relevant archives from Centre des Archives Diplomatiques de Nantes (France)

  • Centre des Archives diplomatiques de Nantes

    USHMM holds copies of Holocaust-relevant archives from the Frenc Diplomatic Archives in Nantes grouped under "Selected records of the French Diplomatic Archives in Nantes". Detailed finding aids of the copies made by USHMM are available via the USHMM collection description.