SELECTED RECORDS FROM THE DEPARTMENTAL ARCHIVES OF THE LOIRE ATLANTIQUE, RG M

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1 SELECTED RECORDS FROM THE DEPARTMENTAL ARCHIVES OF THE LOIRE ATLANTIQUE, RG M United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archive 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place SW Washington, DC Tel. (202) Title: Selected Records from the Departmental Archives of the Loire Atlantique, (bulk ). Record Group Number: RG M Accession Number: Extent: 11 microfilm reels (16 and 35 mm) Biographical/historical note: The records in this collection concern the region known as the "Loire Inférieure before There were several internment camps that included Jews, Roma and Sinti (nomades) and resistance fighters: Camp of La Forge (Moison la Rivière), Camp de la Salinière in the town of la Baule Pouliguen. The Camp de Choisel in the town of Châteaubriant was the site of a massacre of hostages in reprisal for the assassination of the German Feldkommandant Hotz. Provenance: From the Archives départementales de la Loire Atlantique. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the filmed collection via the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum International Archives Project Division in January, Restriction on access: No restrictions on access. Restriction on use: Restrictions on use. Authorization to reproduce microfilm must be given by the director of the Archives. Organization and Arrangement: Arrangement is thematic. Language: French. 1

2 Preferred Citation: Standard citation for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collections Division, Archives Branch. Scope and Content: This collection consists of a variety of files pertaining to the civil administration of the Loire Atlantique, together with documents related to the administration of the camps housed there, various anti Jewish legislation, and documents related to the Hotz assassination and subsequent German reprisals. CONTAINER LIST Note: File level concordance with French language descriptions available in Archives administrative file. The beginning of each file on every reel is preceded by a comprehensive French language description of the contents of that file (see frame numeration below; frame numbers are in the extreme upper left hand corner of frame.) Reel 1: 1690W154 Requisition of personnel as orderlies, guards, prisoner transfers, and Jews, Frames W124 French Free Masons, Frames W125 The private associations, Le trait d Union and l Association fraternelle d études socials. Seizure and restitution of their goods, Frames W15 Reprisals inflicted on the hostages and the community, Frame W16 The Fieldmarshall Hotz outrage and subsequent hostage affair, Frame W17 German reprisals: individual files for executed internees, Frame W18 The Saffré underground forces executed by firing squad, Frame Reel 2: 1694W20 French and German orders, Frame W21 Registry of Jews, affixing of the phrase Jew on identity documents and inventory of same, Frame W22 The French law of 3 Oct. 1940, suspending the powers of public office. Frame

3 1694W23 German decree of 18 Oct. 1940, concerning Jewish companies under Jewish management, Frame W24 German decrees of 13 Nov. 1940, and 13 Aug. 1941, prohibiting Jewish ownership of TSF stations. Frame Reel 3: 1694W25 French Jews and foreigners, Frame W26 Registration and accounting of Jews and the Aryanization of their goods, Frame W27 Management and administration, Frame W28 Confiscations and Aryanizations, Frame W29 Measures enacted at Liberation, Frame W30 The supervision of internees and residents in the free zone of the Loire inférieure. Frame W31 Internees, house arrests, communists, and extremists. Frame W32 Administrative internments, Frame W33 Foreigners and interned foreign Jews, Frame W34 Roma and Sinti, Frame W35 The black market, Frame Reel 4: 1694W37 General file. Operations, correspondence between the Military headquarters of Châteaubriant and the Choisel camp, Frame W38 The salt mine camp at Baule Le Pouliguen. Includes Jews, Frame W39 The Choisel camp. Organization and operations. Camp map, Frame W40 Undesirables, Frame W41 Internees originating from the Loire Inférieure and other departments, Frame W55 Correspondence of internees and their families, escapes, motions for internee release. Frame

4 1694W58 Internee transfers coming from Choisel. Frame W59 The La Forge camp at Moisdon la Riviére, its creation and function with lists of gypsy internees, Frame W60 The Choisel and La Forge camps. General file for the two camps with expense file, Frame Reel 5: 43W11 and 43W13 Sub prefecture of Châteaubriant. Communal affairs and reports of the sub prefecture, Reel 6: 43W104 Anti Jewish measures. Instructions, correspondence, and name lists, Frame W148 The La Forge camp, its organization, general orders, reports, and maps, Frame Reel 7: 43W149, 43W150, and 43W161 Internment camps during occupation, with name lists, Reel 8: 1623W11 Surveillance of Jews, Frame W12 Surveillance of French Free Masons, Frame W48 The assassination of Commandant Hotz 1941: file with photos. Frame Reel 9: 1660W37 Population of Jewish schools, Frame Reel 10: 1668W42 Legal identity photos, ; photos of Hotz s body and the bodies of the Saffré underground fighters (from different series). Frame Reel 11: 1694W4 Political movements and secret societies, Frame W5 Persons forfeiting French nationality and the subsequent spoliation of their belongings. Frame

5 1694W6 Jews: Official matters and individual files. Frame