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SELECTED RECORDS OF THE DEPARTMENTAL ARCHIVES OF THE HAUTE‐VIENNE, 1937‒1962
RG‐43.047M
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archive 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place SW Washington, DC 20024‐2126 Tel. (202) 479‐9717 Email: [email protected]
Title: Selected Records of the Departmental Archives of the Haute‐Vienne, 1937‐1962.
Record Group Number: RG‐43.047M
Accession Number: 2003.257
Extent: 9 microfilm reels (16 mm)
Provenance: From the Departmental Archives of the Haute‐Vienne. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the filmed collection via the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum International Archives Project Division in 2003.
Biographical/Historical note: The Haute‐Vienne was the demarcation line between the occupied and unoccupied zone. Consequently, many surreptitious movements of persons and materials occurred there. The documents in this collection reflect that.
Restrictions on Access: No restrictions on access.
Restrictions on Use: Restrictions on use apply. Any reproduction for publication must be authorized by the Director of the Departmental Archives of the Haute‐Vienne.
Organization and Arrangement: Arrangement is thematic.
Language: French
Preferred citation: Standard citation for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collections Division, Archives Branch.
Scope and Content: Contains documents from the camps at Nexon, Saint‐Paul d’Eyjeaux, Séreilhac, Saint‐Germain‐les‐Belles, Saint Sulpice‐la‐Pointe, and la Meyse. Includes documents related to the
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organization and forced labor of foreigners in France during the Vichy regime. Also includes documents pertaining to the massacre at Oradour‐sur‐Glane on June 10, 1944, the OSE children’s home at Montintin, and emigration to Palestine after the war.
CONTAINER LIST
Reel 1:
185W1‐ Records of the Limoges regional prefecture, 1940‐1944.
185 W1/10 Regional headquarters of the Commissariat Général aux Questions Juives; frames 1‐79.
185 W1/67 Monthly reports of the divisional inspector of labor, Sept. 1941‐July 1944; frames 80‐187.
185 W 1/73 Monthly reports of the “Jewish question” chief of police; frames 188‐235.
185 W 1/114 Internment camps and prisons; frames 236‐350. 185 W 1/147 UGIF; frames 351‐367.
185 W 1/148 Reports of the “Jewish question” police for the Limoges region; frames 368‐680.
185 W1/149 Directions for applying the regulations pertaining to Jews naturalized as French citizens; frames 681‐1538.
185 W1/150 French Freemasons; frames 1539‐1826.
185 W1/151 Notes of the RG concerning public opinion related to the Riom process, and the director of the prefecture’s speech. The arrest of the Bishop of Limoges; frames 1827‐1957.
185 W 1/220 The Catholic Church and the intercessions of the Bishop on behalf of Jews; frames 1958‐ 2090.
185 W 1/221 The Protestant Church and the sermon of the Pastor of Chaudier in relation to measures taken against Jews; frames 2091‐2095.
185 W 1/223 Reports regarding the attitudes of representatives of diverse religious orders, 1940‐1944; frames 2096‐2151.
185 W3‐ Police
185 W3/25 Deportations of French nationals and foreigners from the occupied zone to the free zone; frames 2152‐2186.
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185 W3/38 Name list of those hung (executed) in Tulle. Letter dated April 22, 1944; frames 2187‐2666.
185 W3/55 Algerian internee transfers from the camps of the Haute‐Vienne department, primarily communists; frames 2667‐2790.
185 W3/61 Morale report; frames 2791‐2946.
185 W3/70 Monthly reports of the camp commandant; frames 2947‐3795.
185 W3/82 Escapes, 1942‐1943; frames 3796‐3863.
185 W3/90 Register of foreigners and immigrants in the Limoges region; frames 3864‐4988.
185 W6‐ Labor
185 W6/7 The main groups of foreigners, colonials, and Jews, 1941‐1944; frames 4989‐5717.
Reel 2:
187 W‐ Refugee records, 1937‐1950.
187 W17 Administrative retreats in the Haute‐Vienne. List by commune of religious ministers evacuated from the Haute; frames 1‐165.
187 W116 Name lists by commune of foreign refugee families, 1941; frames 166‐827.
187 W190 Numerical count by commune of Jews who did and did not receive aid, 1941; frames 828‐ 1172.
187 W199 Oradour‐sur‐Glane; frames 1173‐1792.
646 W‐ Prefecture records.
646 W196 The 1942 regrouping of Jews and measures enacted against Jewish families, 1942‐1943; frames 1793‐2543.
646 W232 Foreigners requesting visas for Palestine 1948. Residents of the Chateau de Montintin; frames 2544‐2800.
646 W251 Foreign Jews; frames 2801‐3796.
646 W256 Foreign Jews sent to the Gurs camp, 1943; frames 3797‐5057.
Reel 3:
646 W‐ Prefecture records.
646 W260 Liberation of foreigners garrisoned in internment centers; frames 1‐935.
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646 W261 Foreign registry office. GTE internment centers in Meyse and Séreilhac; frames 936‐1123.
646 W262 Foreign registry office. Liberation documents; frames 1124‐1493.
646 W263 Foreign registry office. Liberation documents, 1943‐1947; frames 1494‐1873.
765 W‐ General prefecture administration.
765 W65 War, 1939‐1945. Foreign habitation during 1940 to 1944, with a list of Jewish children living in Haute‐Vienne; frames 1874‐3134.
985 W‐ General prefecture administration.
985 W454 Foreigners, 1939‐1945; frames 3135‐4040.
985 W456 Foreigners, 1939‐1945. Investigation of foreigners, particularly Jews; frames 4041‐5149.
Reel 4:
985 W‐ General prefecture administration.
985 W473 Foreigners 1939‐1945, clandestine crossings at the line of demarcation; frames 1‐884.
985 W484 French Jews and foreigners. Statute of foreign Jews; frames 885‐1473.
985 W485 French Jews and foreigners. Inquiries into the organizations of UGIF; frames 1474‐2729.
985 W1228 List of foreigners interned at the Séreilhac center; frames 2730‐2795.
985 W1622 Foreigners, measures pertaining to Jews, 1942‐1943; frames 2796‐4155.
985 W1633 Application of the name “Jew” on identity documents; frames 4156‐4175.
985 W1634 Name lists distributed by the prefects of the free zone, containing foreign Jews sought for arrest; frames 4176‐4245.
985 W2620 Foreigners. Requests, for entry into France, presented by deportees, 1945‐1946; frames 4246‐4426.
986 W‐ Office of the Prefect.
986 W258 Correspondence of the prefect, Oradour‐sur‐Glane, 1941‐1944; frames 4427‐5333.
986 W466 Cross‐zonal human traffic (Jews), 1941; frames 5334‐5354.
Reel 5:
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986 W‐ Office of the Prefect.
986 W481 Oradour‐sur‐Glane speeches, 1944‐1959; frames 1‐1230.
986 W482 Ceremonial commemorations of the massacre at Oradour; frames 1231‐1621.
986 W483 Parliamentary debates regarding the prosecution of war criminals who participated in the massacre (at Oradour). Protest and other incidents resulting from the judgment of the authorities, 1953‐ 1956; frames 1622‐2352.
986 W538 Letters A through D; frames 2353‐3032.
986 W539 Letters E through M; frames 3033‐3669.
986 W540 Letters N through Z; frames 3670‐4094.
986 W543 Deportees, internees, executions, and investigations, 1956; 4095‐4823.
986 W545 Deportees, internees, executions, and investigations, 1960‐1962; frames 4824‐5804.
Reel 6:
986 W546 Internment camp at Nexon; frames 1‐70.
986 W687 Jewish affairs, 1942‐1954; frames 71‐130.
993 W‐Prefecture of military affairs.
993 W1 Internment camp, general file. Legislation of the French committee for the national liberation of Algeria, Nov. 1943‐Apr. 1944; frames 131‐142.
993 W2 Internment camp, general file, 1940‐1950; frames 143‐416.
993 W3 Internment camp, 15 May 1944; frames 417‐420.
993 W4 Internment camp, reports and investigations, 1944‐1945; frames 421‐559.
993 W12 Internment camps; the Saint‐Germain‐les‐Belles internment camp, its foundation and beginnings; frames 560‐568.
993 W15 Internment camps; the Saint‐Germain‐les‐Belles internment camp, 1940‐1941; frames 569‐ 977.
993 W17 Internment camps; the Saint‐Germain‐les‐Belles internment camp, internees, individual files on those released (largely foreigners), 1940‐1941; frames 978‐1363.
993 W26 Internment camps; the Saint‐Paul‐d’Eyjeaux internment camp; frames 1364‐1610.
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993 W27 Internment camps, the Nexon internment camp; the legal situation regarding the site and its buildings. Reports with 9 photographs (24cm x 18cm); frames 1611‐1983.
993 W58 The Nexon internment camp; internees and register of those interned and discharged, 1941‐ July 1943; frames 1984‐2650.
993 W59 The Nexon internment camp; internees, 1943 (1 register); frames 2651‐2751.
993 W60 The Nexon internment camp; internees, escapees, and deaths, Jan.‐Aug. 1944; frames 2752‐ 2798.
993 W61 The Nexon internment camp; internees, escapees, and deaths, Sept. 1944‐1945; frames 2799‐ 2815.
993 W62 The Nexon internment camp; Jews, 20 Oct. 1942; frames 2816‐2823.
993 W63 The Nexon internment camp; name list of Spanish nationals, 1942; frames 2824‐2831.
993 W64 The Nexon internment camp; the register dated 18 Sept. 1944 to 1946, the release of Jews; frames 2832‐2873.
993 W65 The Nexon internment camp; arrivals, releases, and transfers, Oct. 1944‐1945; frames 2874‐ 2942.
993 W66 The Nexon internment camp; internee deaths 1942‐1946, several Jews and their burial; frames 2943‐3109.
993 W67 The Nexon internment camp; social work in relief of the families of the internees, 1941‐1945; frames 3110‐3225.
993 W68 The Nexon internment camp; measures taken by the police to identify the instigators of unlawful plots to prejudice the attitudes of internees, 1942; frames 3226‐3404.
993 W69 The Nexon internment camp; admissions and discharges, Sept.‐Nov. 1944; frames 3405‐3741.
993 W70 The Nexon internment camp; reports and investigations, Oct. 1940‐1942; frames 3742‐3910.
993 W71 The Nexon internment camp; monthly reports of the camp commandant, Jan.‐July 1944; frames 3911‐4105.
993 W72 The Nexon internment camp; monthly reports of the camp commandant, Oct.‐Aug. 1945; frames 4106‐4228.
993 W77 The Nexon internment camp; admissions, accounting, and register of receipts and expenses, 1943‐1943 (register A3); frames 4229‐4284.
Reel 7:
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993 W‐Prefecture of military affairs.
993 W221 Governmental measures enacted against Jews, 1940‐1944; frames 1‐1319.
993 W222 Jewish census, 1941‐1944; frames 1320‐2436.
993 W223 Jewish affairs commission (Limoges branch), 1941‐1943; frames 2437‐ 4205.
993 W224 Jewish affairs commission (Limoges branch), 1942‐1943; frames 4206‐4869.
993 W386 Oradour‐sur‐Glane, war damages and reconstruction, 1945‐1953; frames 4870‐5696.
Reel 8:
993 W‐Prefecture of military affairs.
993 W387 Oradour‐sur‐Glane, war damages and reconstruction, 1945‐1953; frames 1‐108.
993 W388 Oradour‐sur‐Glane, 1949‐1954; frames 109‐691.
993 W389 Oradour‐sur‐Glane, 1949‐1952; frames 692‐1310.
993 W544 Refugees, statistics of Frenchmen and refugee foreigners in the Haute‐Vienne since 10 May 1940; frames 1311‐1414.
993 W608 Census of French Jews, 1942; frames 1415‐2146.
993 W609 Census of foreign Jews, 1942; frames 2147‐3832.
993 W707 Refugees at the Meyse internment camp. Framework and foundation (of the building) with a description of its fixturing; frames 3833‐3938.
993 W708 Refugee foreigners previously interned at the Meyse camp, with pending litigation against the state, 1949‐1953; frames 3939‐3949.
993 W773 The massacre at Oradour‐sur‐Glane, the Pinède family and their local representation in UGIF; frames 3950‐3984.
Reel 9:
1081 W‐ Records of the labor department.
1081 W233 Social register of foreigners at the Meyse and Séreilhac internment camps, 1942‐1945; frames 1‐595.
1081 W234 Foreigner’s social center at number 19bis, Chateau le Roc in Dordogne; frames 596‐1134.
1081 W235 Social register of foreigners, the camps at Douadic and Vernusse; frames 1135‐1784.
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1081 W238 Foreign workers of the 643rd Foreign Workers Group (at Oradour‐sur‐Glane and Aixe‐sur‐ Vienne), name lists, 1941‐1945; frames 1785‐3126.
1081 W252 The camps at Meyse and Séreilhac, 1942‐1944, requisitions for construction materials; frames 3127‐3948.
1374 W‐ Records of the municipal police department.
1374 W10 Anti‐Semitism, Jewish files, 1941‐1944 and 1950; frames 3949‐4761.
1374 W13 Marital status of people arrested on July 16, 1943; frames 4762‐4763.
1374 W14 Chronological recording of administrative internments, listing pretext, reasons, and length of imprisonment for Jews sent to Saint‐Sulpice‐la‐Pointe in Tarn; frames 4764‐4779.
1374 W15 The Nexon internment camp; name list of internees under the control of the Germans; frames 4780‐4790.
1374 W16 The Nexon and Saint‐Paul‐d’Eyjeaux internment camps; the arrest of the camp commandants for incompetence and cowardice, 16 June 1944; frames 4791‐4795.
1374 W21 List of Jews who failed their medical examinations and were sent away. Name list for Sept 1943‐Jan. 1944; frames 4796‐5200.
1374 W36 Memorandum concerning the investigation of enemy war crimes. Nature and extent of the war crimes committed in Haute‐Vienne from Mar.‐Oct. 1944 with an investigation completed by the Central Commissioner of Limoges, Mar.‐June 1945; frames 5201‐5295.
1102 W55 Investigation into lawyers of the Jewish faith; frames 5296‐5342.
24 J‐ The Jean d’Albis records.
24 J5 Dispatch of the Swiss legation regarding the massacre at Oradour‐sur‐Glane; frames 5343‐5403.
24 J9 Text of the sermon delivered by Pastor Chaudier of the Temple of the Reformed Church of Limoges on 18 June 1944; frames 5404‐5411.
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