The Shoah Memorial provides the public with an iconographic collection of 110,000 photos, 2,500 posters and 1,800 postcards. 8,000 images on the lives of Jews in France during the Second World War from this fund are available online.
The photo library was built in 1994 on a fund of 8,000 images, until then integrated into the paper archives. The photographs in this first collection mainly focus on the Holocaust in Europe and the major trials. Since the 1950s, they have come from the work carried out by the C.D.J.C. on major exhibitions and around the Nuremberg trials and those of Adolf Eichmann.
Few documents were then available on France, the disappeared Jewish communities, posters or postcards.
Since 1994, the photo service has been tasked with strengthening this collection by focusing on France (internment, the Holocaust, resistance and rescue) and then on Judaica postcards and historical and film posters.
The photo library is the depository of photographic archives from Jewish institutions such as the Œuvre de Secours à l'Enfance, the Eclaireuses et Eclaireurs Israélites de France, but also those of personalities like the Grand Rabbi Jacob Kaplan or Claude Kelman.
Every week, donors submit their photographs and documents to the Memorial and new avenues of research open up to continue enriching this collection of images dedicated to the history and memory of the Shoah in France and Europe.
The fonds is now made up of more than 110,000 photographs, nearly 65,000 of which are catalogued: nearly 2,500 posters (including 1,000 movie posters), 1,800 Judaica postcards and 300 anti-Semitic postcards.
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