The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum received the collection from the Centre d’archives diplomatiques de Nantes (CADN) du Ministère des Affaires étrangères français (Diplomatic Archives of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Nantes) in 2013. The documents originate from the French administration of Protectorates in Morocco, starting in 1913, and Tunisia, from roughly the same period. Many of these records were still in the state of disarray in which they were abandoned in 1956, when Morocco and Tunisia declared their independence. It was decided that, before reproduction, a researcher would catalogue the documents of interest to the USHMM Archives and, in some cases, create whole new collections. Copies of some of the microfilms made in the 1980’s are included from the collections of the Résidence Générale of Morocco and the Jacques Beilin Collection. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the collection via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s International Archives Project in 2013, and accretion in July 2017.