Selected records from the French Protectorates of Morocco and Tunisia, Syria and Lebanon under French mandate after WWI until after WWII, and the French Embassy in Madrid.

Identifier
irn59040
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2013.65
  • RG-43.154
Dates
1 Jan 1912 - 31 Dec 1956
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • French
  • German
  • English
  • Arabic
  • Spanish
  • Italian
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn59040

Extent and Medium

204,318 digital images, JPEG

1 CD, 4 3/4 in.

2 DVDs,

Archival History

Centre des Archives Diplomatiques de Nantes (France)

Acquisition

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum received the collection from the Centre d’archives diplomatiques de Nantes (CADN) du Ministère des Affaires étrangères français (Diplomatic Archives of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Nantes) in 2013. The documents originate from the French administration of Protectorates in Morocco, starting in 1913, and Tunisia, from roughly the same period. Many of these records were still in the state of disarray in which they were abandoned in 1956, when Morocco and Tunisia declared their independence. It was decided that, before reproduction, a researcher would catalogue the documents of interest to the USHMM Archives and, in some cases, create whole new collections. Copies of some of the microfilms made in the 1980’s are included from the collections of the Résidence Générale of Morocco and the Jacques Beilin Collection. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the collection via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s International Archives Project in 2013, and accretion in July 2017.

Scope and Content

This collection consists of selected administrative records from the former French protectorates of Morocco and Tunisia and related files from the “Syria-Lebanon” collection and from the French Embassy in Madrid. The documents originate from a variety of sectors of the colonial administration including the departments of the interior, immigration, public health and welfare, religious affairs, and foreign affairs, as well as police, public works, postal, military, and municipal records. Military records relate to internment camps, prisoners of war, and censorship. Municipal records document wartime aid to indigent non-Jewish families by a special committee (Comité ouvrier de soutien immediate), which requisitioned Jewish law offices and levied an exorbitant fine on the Jewish population to pay for its services. Many of materials relate to the postwar purge of collaborationists, clandestine Jewish immigration to Palestine before and immediately after the end of the war, and massacres of Jews following declaration of the state of Israel, including police photos from the Résidence Générale of Morocco and the Collection of Jacques Beilin, a house photographer there.

System of Arrangement

The collection is arranged in five series: Series 1: French Protectorate in Morocco Subseries 1: Diplomatic office (1MA_5) Subseries 2: Office of the delegate to the General Residence (1MA_10) Subseries 3: General Residence, Legislation department (1MA_20) Subseries 4: Interior department (1MA_200) Subseries 5: Interior department: Jewish questions (1MA-250) Subseries 6: Department of Cherifian affairs (1MA_300) Subseries 7: Casablanca region (11MA_900) Subseries 8: Marrakech region (13MA_900) Subseries 9: Oujda region (15MA_900) Subseries 10: Rabat region (16MA_900) Series 2: French Protectorate in Tunisia Subseries 1: Security Services Directorate: General Intelligence Service (1TU_701) Subseries 2: Diplomatic office (1TU-1S) Subseries 3: Diplomatic office: Bernard filing (1TU-1V) Subseries 4: Civilian control of Sfax (1TU-2V) Subseries 5: Grandchamp papers (1TU-126) Subseries 6: Series C - Chancellery (1TU-500) Subseries 7: Superior council of inquiry (2TU-5)

Conditions Governing Reproduction

Copyright Holder: Ministère des Affaires étrangères français

Subjects

  • Concentration camps--Arab countries.
  • Syria--Ethnic relations.
  • Islam--Relations--Judaism.
  • Prisoners of war--prisoners of war.
  • Jews--Persecutions--Arab countries.
  • Jews--Arab countries--History--20th century.
  • Judaism--Relations--Islam.
  • Jews--Arab countries--History--19th century.
  • Lebanon--Ethnic relations.
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Arab countries.
  • Tunisia--Ethnic relations.
  • Morocco--Ethnic relations.
  • Diplomatic and consular service, French--North Africa.

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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