Selected records from the Departmental Archives of the Pyrénées-Atlantiques

Identifier
irn512164
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2002.280
  • RG-43.035M
Dates
1 Jan 1912 - 31 Dec 1953
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • French
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn512164

Extent and Medium

268,738 digital images, JPEG

53 microfilm reels (digitized), 16 mm

3 microfilm reels (digitized), 35 mm

Archival History

Archives départementales des Pyrénées-Atlantiques

Acquisition

Forms part of the Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. This archive consists of documentation whose reproduction and/or acquisition was made possible with funding from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.

From the Archives Départementales des Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the filmed collection via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum International Archives Program in Aug. 2002.

Scope and Content

Correspondence, reports, circulars, alphabetical registration files of internees, transfer lists and medical records of internees, alphabetical lists of Jews under house arrest, related to internment camps in France, including Gurs, Saint-Cyprien and Polo-Beyris in Bayonne. Also contains records relating to financial aid of Union Générale des Israélites de France (UGIF), the Red Cross, the Quakers, and Aide aux Réfugés (section d'Oloron); art activities of internees; resistance correspondence; records on crime (1941-1945); prostitution (1944-1945); and some photographs of crime victims and religious ceremonies.

System of Arrangement

Organization is thematic and alphabetical order of selected records from series W

Conditions Governing Reproduction

Copyright Holder: Archives départementales des Pyrénées-Atlantiques

Corporate Bodies

  • Union générale des israélites de France

Subjects

  • Gurs (France)
  • War crimes--France.
  • Polo-Beyris a Bayonne (France)
  • Prisoners of war--France.
  • Saint-Cyprien (France)
  • Medical records.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Refugees--Registers.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements.
  • Prisoners as artists.
  • France--History--German occupation, 1940-1945.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, French.
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--France.

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.

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