The library catalogue
The library of the Centre de documentation du Mémorial de la Shoah contains 80,000 books and documents dealing with the destruction of the Jews in Europe, the persecution of the Jews, the history of the resistance to Nazism, the Second World War, of antisemitism and the history of Jewish communities in the 20th century around the world.
The library of the Shoah Memorial Documentation Centre is an extension of the library of the Contemporary Jewish Documentation Centre, which from its inception in 1943 constituted a documentary collection with the following thematic axes:
- the persecution and destruction of the Jews of Europe
- the Second World War
- resistance to Nazism.
Today, the library makes 80,000 books and documents in various languages (French, English, German, Polish, etc.) available to the public on request in a reading room. These books and documents represent a wide range of books, academic works, Printed separately, tapuscrits, Yizker Bikher (books of remembrance of the disappeared Jewish communities) as well as thematic press reviews and clippings and numerous newspapers and periodicals. The library also offers a large collection of documents (books and periodicals) in Yiddish and Hebrew, upon request.
The collections of the library of the Centre de documentation du Mémorial de la Shoah have as 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 themes are addressed by different disciplines and perspectives.
The library of the Holocaust Memorial is not limited to the field of the Holocaust alone. It also has funds on the interwar period, persecution and discrimination of other human groups, history of 20th century Jewish communities around the world.
The library of the Holocaust Memorial preserves a number of rare works such as collections of clandestine texts, testimonies written and published in the immediate post-war period, collaborationist writings, the Nazi propaganda works, in particular those recovered at the Nuremberg trials, and a wide range of documents on the Dreyfus affair.
A simplified version of the catalogue is available on this site.
The Centre de documentation du Mémorial de la Shoah library offers an online consultation of part of its computerized catalogue of documents that can be consulted immediately in the reading room. The proposed light 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 computer in reading room.
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