GR 2 P 123-136-Ministry of National Defense and War, Department of Civil Personnel, 2nd office (Jews), Dismissal from Administrative Jobs or Continuance in Office, (Mainland France) GR 2 P 123-136-Ministère de la Défense nationale et de la Guerre Direction des Personnels Civils 2ème bureau (Juifs). Radiation des Contrôles des Administrations ou maintien en fonction (Métropole)
Extent and Medium
18,349 digital images, JPEG
Archival History
France. Service historique de la défense
Acquisition
Source of acquisition is the Historical Archives of the French Ministry of Defense at the Chateau de Vincennes (Service historique de la Defense Chateau de Vincennes). The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum received the filmed collection via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum International Archival Programs Division in June 2019, and accretion in Nov. 2019.
Scope and Content
Consists of records concerning Jewish civilians in government jobs at the French Ministry of Defense. The decree of the 2nd Statute, June 2, 1941 (a replacement of the Decree, October 3, 1940) defined who was to be considered a member of the "Jewish race" elaborating rules concerning grandparents. The Article 4 of this decree listed the professions and positions that Jews could not exercise (positions in ministries). Exceptions were made when an individual could prove that he and/or his family had provided exceptional service to the French nation. This law applied to all of French territory, occupied as well as unoccupied zones, and overseas dominions and protectorates, unless the administrative office could no longer function without the personnel currently in place. The collection includes name lists and requests by individuals for exceptions to be made in the application of the decree. Accretion of 26 photographs from 2P 123 was added in Nov. 2019.
System of Arrangement
Arranged in three parts; 1. Metropolis area, 1940-1941; 2. Overseas area. 1940-1944; 3. Photograps (The thirth part of records was added in Nov. 2019, from 2P 123)
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Copyright Holder: France. Ministère de la défense
Corporate Bodies
- Vichy Regime
Subjects
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--France.
- World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--France.
- France--Politics and government--20th century.
- Jews--France--Societies, etc.--History--20th century.
- World War, 1939-1945--France--Vichy.
- Antisemitism--France.
- Race discrimination--Law and legislation--France--History--20th century.
Genre
- Document
- Declarations.
- Photographs.
- Reports.
- Correspondence.
- Registers.
- Applications.