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 States-United, two conventions concerning the delivery to each of these institutions of a digital copy of the archives of the Special Brigades.
The Prefecture of Police had already signed exchange agreements in 2000 and 2005 with the Shoah Memorial and the USHMM, which for several years had been requesting a copy of the funds from the Special Brigades, responsible from 1940 to 1944 for the pursuit of the Resistance, 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 deportations during the Second World War, thus meeting the expectations of researchers and questions from 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 favor of the transmission of these documents but, in accordance with its jurisprudence, does not authorize 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 the indexation of the fund and thus facilitating the consultation of prefectural archives.
Michel Delpuech, Prefect of Police
Radu Ioanid, director of the archives at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum
Jacques Fredj, director of the Shoah Memorial
Signing of the agreement
