The library of the CDJC, Center of Contemporary Jewish Documentation, was originally built in 1943 to present three main themes: the persecution and the destruction of the Jews of Europe and other human groups, during the Second World War and all forms of Resistance. The library collections are mainly devoted to the Shoah but also include a number of related fields such as the history of the period between the two wars, anti-Semitic literature, past and contemporary anti-Semitism, the history of the Jewish communities and the State of Israel. 

The CDJC library contains numerous rare books including collections of underground texts, testimonies drafted in the immediate post-war period, collaborationist writings and Nazi propaganda retrieved during the Nuremberg trials. The CDJC has undertaken to publish a collection of «Books of Remembrance» on Jewish communities which have now disappeared. Today the library housed a collection of more than 30,000 books in French, English, German, Hebrew, Yiddish, Italian and Polish as well as 2000 periodicals. A growing number of scholarly research publications are regularly added to the collection of the CDJC library.

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