France (concentration camp) Collection
Scope and Content Note
The bulk of the collection is an assembly of various reports, amounting to a document of 907 pages in ten sections: the reports originate mainly from the "Comité de Coordination pour l'Assistance dans les Camps" (CCAC; also known as "Comité de Nîmes") and other organizations, such as the “American Friends Service Committee” (AFSC) and YMCA pertaining to foreign – particularly Jewish – refugees in unoccupied France during WW II.
Also included are published documents about ‘Le Secours National’, specifically about its work in Algiers; reports about refugee camps in French North Africa; as well as an article about German, Swiss and Austrian refugees deported from France.
Dates
- 1938-1998
Language of Materials
This collection is in French with some English and German.
Access Restrictions
Collection is digitized.
Access Information
Readers may access the collection by visiting the Lillian Goldman Reading Room at the Center for Jewish History. We recommend reserving the collection in advance; please visit the LBI Online Catalog and click on the "Request" button.
Use Restrictions
There may be some restrictions on the use of the collection. For more information, contact:
Leo Baeck Institute, Center for Jewish History, 15 West 16th Street, New York, NY 10011
email: lbaeck@lbi.cjh.org
Extent
0.5 Linear Feet
Abstract
The bulk of the collection is an assembly of various reports, amounting to a document of 907 pages in ten sections: the reports originate mainly from the "Comité de Coordination pour l'Assistance dans les Camps" (CCAC; also known as "Comité de Nîmes") and other organizations, such as the “American Friends Service Committee” (AFSC) and YMCA pertaining to foreign – particularly Jewish – refugees in unoccupied France during WW II.
Other Finding Aid
3 catalogue cards (incomplete!)
Microfilm
Collection is available on 2 reels of microfilm (MF 836).
- Africa, French-speaking
- Algeria
- American Friends Service Committee
- Archival materials
- Children
- Europe -- Emigration and immigration
- Forced labor
- France -- History -- German occupation, 1940-1945
- Gurs (Concentration camp)
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
- Internment camps -- France
- Jewish refugees
- Lande, Peter W.
- Lowrie, Donald A. (Donald Alexander), 1889-1974
- Quakers
- Social service
- Spain
- Vormeier, Barbara
- Weil, Bruno, 1883-1961
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Deportations from France
- Title
- Guide to the France (concentration camp) Collection AR 3987 / MF 836
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Processed by LBI Staff
- Date
- © 2009
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Description is in English.
Revision Statements
- September 2010:: Links to digital objects added in Container List.
- 2010-09-20 : encoding of linking to digital objects from finding aid was changed from <extref> to <dao> through dao_conv.xsl
Repository Details
Part of the Leo Baeck Institute Repository
