Seconde Guerre Mondiale records (AJ 72)

Identifier
irn508291
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2001.19
  • RG-43.019M
Dates
1 Jan 1933 - 31 Dec 1980
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • English
  • French
  • Polish
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn508291

Extent and Medium

15 microfilm reels, 16 mm

Archival History

Archives nationales (France)

Acquisition

From the Archives nationales (France), Fond AJ 72. The Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the filmed collection via the United States Holocaust Museum International Programs Division in 2001.

Scope and Content

Contains documents extracted from official records found in Buchenwald, Auschwitz, Sachsenhausen, and Dachau. Records include lists of political prisoners, lists of prisoners used in medical experiments, correspondence, requests, statistics, medical statements, discipline statements, and administrative documents. Also collection contains interrogations of ex-guards in concentration camps, liberation photographs, published testimonies,essays, clippings related to antisemitism, prosecution of Jewish in France, and to the Vichy politics.

System of Arrangement

Arranged by file number within record group AJ 72. Reel 1: File 5579; Reel 2: File 4425; Reel 3 File 4633; Reel 4: File 4488; Reel 5: File 4450; Reel 6: File 4181; Reel 7: File 4181; Reel 8: File 4976; Reel 9: File 5003;Reel 10: File 4994; Reel 11: File 4555; Reel 12: File 4523; Reel 13: File 4414; Reel 14: File 4554; Reel 14: File 15 4873-missing; Reel 16: File 4568-missing; Reel 17: File 1583

Conditions Governing Reproduction

Copyright Holder: Archives nationales (France)

Corporate Bodies

Subjects

  • Concentration camp guards.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Germany.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Poland.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Europe.
  • Jews--France.

Genre

  • Document
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