World War II Selected Records from the French National Archives: 72 AJ Seconde Guerre Mondiale
Extent and Medium
9,455 digital images, JPEG
Archival History
Archives nationales (France)
Acquisition
Source of acquisition is the Archives nationales (French National Archives). The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the collection via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s International Archives Project in December 2021.
Scope and Content
The collection includes selected records from the Archives of the Second World War History Committee and private papers. Records include the memoirs of Colonel de Milleret, an organization chart of the German services in France, a lexicon of French resistance, personal narratives, reports, and printed materials. The records document the confiscation of illicit profits, the establishment of German troops in France during the Second World War, and the French resistance. The collection also includes records documenting Professor Duvoir’s participation in the International Commission of Forensic Investigation into the mass grave in Vinnytsia (Ukraine) in 1943 including reports, research, witness statements, autopsies, maps, photographs, a victim list, and clippings. The collection further includes records documenting the Association of the deportees of Oranienburg-Sachsenhausen and André Boullouche, former resistant and deportee.
System of Arrangement
The files are arranged by file number.
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Copyright Holder: Archives nationales (France)
Corporate Bodies
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--France.
- Vinnyt︠s︡i︠a︡ (Ukraine)
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
- France--History--German occupation, 1940-1945.
Genre
- Registers.
- Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.)
- Personal narratives.
- Document
- Reports.
- Maps.