Préfecture of Police in Paris records

Contains administrative accounting files from Drancy (Comptes de Drancy, Préfecture Archives: boxes GB 1–16) recording money, jewelry, and other property confiscated from Jews entering the internment camp. The collection also includes various occupation-related materials (Préfecture Archives: BA Series) on topics such as German spies and agents; the assassination of German military personnel; sabotage; pacifists; the German occupation of Paris; cooperation between French and German police; press censorship; Jewish communities in France; measures against Jews; Drancy, Camp de Saint Denis, and other camps; lists of interned communists; the activities of Organisation Todt; Freemasonry in France; executions by German authorities; Léon Blum; and liberation. Also included are files related to art objects confiscated by German occupation authorities (Préfecture Archives PV Series). Copyright Holder: Prefecture of Police of Paris