Signing of an agreement between the Archives de l'Aude and the Shoah Memorial

An agreement was signed on February 3, 2016 between the Departmental Archives of the Aude and the Shoah Memorial to allow the exploitation of documents related to the policy of persecution against the Jews in the Aude in the 1940s.

Since 2002, the Mémorial de la Shoah has undertaken a major research work on documents relating to the internment and persecution of Jews and other minorities in order to digitize them and integrate them into its archive fund estimated at 45 million documents. This digitized fund is made available to researchers.

In the Aude, as in the forty departments where this national collection has already been conducted, it is around the archives of the prefects' offices that the research has focused. This work has been facilitated by the major reclassification carried out by the Archives of the Aude since 1996.

Unexpected discoveries were made during this collection, as in the Lot, with a document presenting «a project set up just after the war to train young Jews in agriculture before their departure to Israel». In the Aude, it is around the village of Rennes-les-Bains, place of forced residence of the Jews of the Aude, that the lighting of this period was reinforced.