An agreement was signed on 3 February 2016 between the Archives départementales de l'Aude and the Mémorial de la Shoah to allow the use of documents relating to the persecution policy against Jews in the Aude in the 1940s.
Since 2002, the Shoah Memorial has undertaken a major research of documents relating to the internment and persecution of Jews and other minorities in order to digitize them and integrate them into its archive fund, which is estimated at 45 million documents. This digitized collection is made available to researchers.
In the Aude, as in the forty-odd 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 was facilitated by the major reclassification carried out by the Archives de l'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.
