Commissariat général aux questions juives (AJ 38)

This collection contains records relating to the operations of the Commissariat Général aux Questions Juives (CGQJ), established by the Vichy government of France in March 1941. The CGQJ was responsible for defining Jewish status; inventorying Jews and their possessions prior to property Aryanization; excluding Jews from the French economy; implementing anti-Jewish laws and regulations; and arresting, interning, and deporting foreign and French Jews. Included are a variety of documents relating to the CGQJ’s operations during the German occupation, as well as records form the Ministre des Finances (1940–1944), which worked in tandem with the CGQJ during the war years. This material does not contain all the files in the original French collection, nor does it duplicate the collection the USHMM copied at the Centre de documentation Juive contemporaine (CDJC).

Organized into seven series: I. Commissariat Général aux Questions Juives et Service de Restitution des Biens Spoliée. II. Ministère des Finances : service d'apuration et du liquidation des dommages de guerre : fichier des biens juifs et leurs administration provisoires, 1940-1944. III. Commissariat Général aux Questions Juives. Tête de Séries, échantillons, diverses régions, biens revendiqués et non revendiqués. IV. Commissariat Général aux Questions Juives. Direction Régionale de Nice. V. Commissariat Général aux Questions Juives. Direction Régionale de Lyon. VI. Commissariat Général aux Questions Juives. Direction Régionale de Clermont-Ferrand. VII. Commissariat Général aux Questions Juives. Direction Régionale de Marseille