The library catalog
The library of the Shoah Memorial Documentation Center contains 80,000 books and documents dealing with the destruction of European Jews, the persecution of Jews, the history of resistance to Nazism, World War II, anti-Semitism and the history of Jewish communities in the twentieth century around the world.
The library of the Documentation Centre of the Shoah Memorial is an extension of the library of the Center for Contemporary Jewish Documentation which, from its inception in 1943, has constituted a documentary fund with thematic axes:
- the persecution and destruction of European Jews
- the Second World War
- the resistance to Nazism.
Today, the library makes available to the public on request in the reading room 80,000 books and documents in various languages (French, English, German, Polish, etc.) immediately available for consultation, representing a varied collection of books, academic works, drawn apart, typewritten, Yizker Bikher (books of remembrance for the disappeared Jewish communities) as well as press reviews and thematic press clippings and many newspapers and periodicals. The library also offers, at the request of readers, a large collection of documents (books and periodicals) in Yiddish and Hebrew.
The collections of the library of the Documentation Center of the Shoah Memorial have for main themes: the extermination of the Jews of Europe, the persecution of the Jews, the history of resistance to Nazism, the Second World War, anti-Semitism. These topics are addressed from different disciplines and perspectives.
The library of the Shoah Memorial is not limited to the field of the Shoah. It also has funds on the interwar period, the persecution and discrimination of other human groups, the history of Jewish communities in the twentieth century around the world.
The library of the Shoah Memorial preserves many rare works such as collections of clandestine texts, testimonies written and published in the immediate post-war period, collaborationist writings, Nazi propaganda works notably recovered at the Nuremberg trials and a large collection of documents on the Dreyfus affair.
A light version of the catalog is available on this site.
The library Centre de Documentation du Mémorial de la Shoah offers an online consultation of part of its computerized catalog of documents immediately available in the reading room. The proposed lighter version is regularly enriched and developed. The library also offers inventories of certain collections and bibliographies.
Some documents are online. Scanned documents are available on a computer in the reading room.
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