Fonds Communauté israélite de Vichy (CMLV)
Extent and Medium
24 digital files, PDF
Creator(s)
- Communauté israélite de Vichy
Archival History
Mémorial de la Shoah, Centre de Documentation Juive Contemporaine
Acquisition
Source of acquisition is the Memorial to the Shoah, Jewish Contemporary Documentation Center (Mémorial de la Shoah, Centre de Documentation Juive Contemporaine), France. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum received the filmed collection via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum International Archival Programs Division in February 2017.
Scope and Content
Records of the Jewish Community of Vichy related to various activities of the Jewish community in France during and after the World War II. Records include correspondence with the General Union of Jews of France (Union générale des israélites de France, UGIF), lists of deportees, missing persons information and requests, a book of marriages of the French Central Consistory at the Vichy Synagogue, 1939-1943, the original bill of the Statutes of the Union of Israeli Cultural Associations of France and Algeria dated 1909; correspondence between the State police and the Chief Rabbi of France with reports of the incidents in the synagogue of Vichy and Marseilles, testimonies, bulletins, the internal newsletter and other publications, as well as records relating to religious celebrations and ceremonies and various of assistance and support. Postwar records include requests for adoption, correspondence between the Éclaireurs israélites de France, E.I.F. (Israeli Scouts of France) and the Jewish Community of Vichy, search for missing persons, and aid after the war.
System of Arrangement
Arranged in eight series: 1. Records relating to help and support: Correspondence, donors letters, requests from interned families and persons; 2. Missing Persons: Correspondence, book of arrest (deportation to Drancy), a list of deportees from Vichy and its surroundings, refugees addresses in Moselle, Bas-Rhin and Haut-Rhin; 3. Administration: Financial reports, minutes, various correspondence, list of Jews in the community of Lapalisse; 4. Organization of worships by the Consistory. Religious records, celebrations and ceremonies; 5. Correspondence between the Israelite Community of Vichy and individuals (alphabetical order); 6. Records on situation in France and outside France, situation of foreigners in France; emigration of children to the United States. Rescue children; 7. Miscellaneous publications and prints; 8. Postwar records: Requests for adoption, correspondence between the Éclaireurs israélites de France, E.I.F. (Israeli Scouts of France), and the Jewish Community of Vichy on Christmas holidays 1946, activity reports, search for missing persons, aid after the war, and accounting records of the French Community of Israel Vichy.
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Copyright Holder: Mémorial de la Shoah, Centre de Documentation Juive Contemporaine
People
- Heilbronner, Jacques Édouard, 1873-1943.
- Hirschler, René, 1905-1945.
Corporate Bodies
- Union générale des israélites de France
- Éclaireurs israélites de France
- World Union OSE
- Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid Society of America
- Hias-Ica Emigration Association
- World ORT Union
- International Committee of the Red Cross
- Drancy (Internament camp)
- World Union OSE
Subjects
- Synagogues as community centers--France.
- Jewish children in the Holocaust--France.
- France--Emigration and immigration--History--20th century.
- World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Rescue--France.
- Algeria
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--France--Registers.
- Orphans--Care--France--History--Registers.
- Lapalisse, France.
- France--Ethnic relations--History--20th century.
- United States.
- Jewish communities (ushmm)
- Moselle (France)
- France.
- France--Politics and government--20ty century.
- World War, 1939-1945--Jewish resistance--France.
- Marseille (France)--Ethnic relations.
- Jews--Persecutions--France--History--20th century.
- Vichy (France)--Politics and government.
- Haut-Rhin (France)
- Drancy (France)
- World War, 1939-1945--Deportations from France.
- World War, 1939-1945--Children--France.
- Bas-Rhin (France)
- Jewish councils--France--History--20th century.
Genre
- Letters.
- Circulars.
- Registers.
- Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.)
- Questionnaires.
- Reports.
- Certificates.
- Correspondence.
- Bulletins.
- Minutes.
- Document