Selected records from the Departmental Archives of the Maine-et-Loire
Extent and Medium
53,673 digital images, JPEG
11 microfilm reels (digitized), 16 mm
Archival History
Archives départementales de Maine-et-Loire
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.
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the collection from the Departmental Archives of the Maine-et-Loire, via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s International Archives Project in March 2007.
Scope and Content
Contains records pertaining to the systematic harassment, imprisonment, and spoliation of Jews in the Maine-et-Loire as well as records pertaining to the Jewish internment camp at Clefs and the Roma-Sinti internment camp at Montreuil-Bellay.
System of Arrangement
Arrangement is thematic
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Copyright Holder: Archives départementales de Maine-et-Loire
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945--France.
- Confiscations--France--History--Sources.
- Nomads--France.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--France.
- France--Politics and government--1914-1940.
- World War, 1939-1945--Confiscations and contributions--France.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--France.
- Jews--Legal status, laws, etc.--France--History--20th century.
- France--History--German occupation, 1940-1945.
- Romanies--France.
Genre
- Document
Copies
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum holds copies of Holocaust-relevant archives from Archives départementales de Maine-et-Loire
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USHMM holds copies of Holocaust-relevant archives from the Archives départementales de Maine-et-Loire grouped under "Selected records of the Departmental Archives of the Maine-et-Loire". Detailed finding aids of the copies made by USHMM are available via the USHMM collection description.