Signing of an agreement with the Police prefecture

On May 19, 2017, Michel Delpuech, Prefect of Police, signed respectively with Jacques Fredj, director of the Shoah Memorial, and with Radu Ioanid, director of the archives of the Holocaust Memorial Museum of the United-United, two agreements concerning the delivery to each of these institutions of a digital copy of the archives of the Special Brigades.

The Police Prefecture had already signed exchange agreements in 2000 and 2005 with the Shoah Memorial and the USHMM, which had been requesting for several years to obtain a copy of the fund of the Special Brigades, responsible from 1940 to 1944 for the pursuit of the Resisters, members of the Communist Party and Jewish people.

Symbolically strong, the signing of these two conventions will facilitate international research and consultation of the archives of the Police Prefecture relating to the various forms of deportation during the Second World War, thus meeting the expectations of researchers and interrogations of the families.

These archives can be consulted free of charge within these institutions from their intranet.

The CNIL, which was consulted on this project, has issued an opinion in favour of the transmission of these documents but, in accordance with its case law, does not allow their dissemination via the Internet.

In return for this exchange, the Holocaust Memorial Museum of the United States will create a research instrument on behalf of the three institutions, allowing indexing of the fonds and thus facilitating consultation of the prefectural archives.