Entrust us with your archives

Enrich the documentation

Since its creation in 1943, the Center for Contemporary Jewish Documentation has continued to gather documents, archives, photographs, books and periodicals testifying to the fate of the Jews of Europe, particularly in France, during the Second World War, and to the history of Jewish communities before and after the Holocaust.
Even today, the collection of the Center for Contemporary Jewish Documentation continues to be enriched by the submission of documents andprivate archives, by the deposit of archives of organizations or personalities who had a connection with the history and fate of the Jews during the war.

We collect private archives (various papers, objects, photographs, films, books, newspapers) on the history of the Jews of France, North Africa and Europe during the Holocaust but also during the period from 1880 to 1948.

DEPOSIT ITS ARCHIVES AT THE DOCUMENTATION CENTER

Deposit your archives (documents, photos, books, films, objects...) at the Documentation Center of the Memorial or give a copy, it is to contribute to the transmission, research and study of the history of the Jews of Europe in the 20th century, while ensuring the sustainability of the documents entrusted to the Documentation Center.

For all those who cannot go to Paris to deposit their archives, the Shoah Memorial organizes national archive collections every year and comes to meet you throughout France. Do not hesitate, however, to contact the Memorial if you wish to deposit your archives and cannot go to Paris.

Contact: Lior Lalieu-Smadja – 01.53.01.17.28 or lior.smadja@memorialdelashoah.org or archives@memorialdelashoah.org

Give or drop off your films

The photo library welcomes you and advises you in the delivery of your original films or copies that you wish to entrust. They will be saved, digitized and kept in our audiovisual archives.

We collect all types of films and recordings: family archives, testimonies, ceremonies, awarding of medals to the Righteous, commemorations, amateur or professional films.

If the films or recordings are on K7 audio or VHS, we digitize them for better preservation and a copy is given to the donor.

Contact: phototheque@memorialdelashoah.org

Give books to the library

If you wish to donate your books to the Shoah Memorial, please use the library’s online contact form.

For any questions related to the donation of books, you can contact directly the Shoah Memorial Library: bibliotheque@memorialdelashoah.org

Testifying

Testimony is essential in building the memory of the Shoah. It is an irreplaceable source for the researcher and the historian, it gives a human face to the transmission of knowledge inseparable from emotion.  

A number of testimonies, often forgotten or too little heard, were gathered at the Documentation Center of the Shoah Memorial. These accounts and interviews are available at the Memorial, in the form of writings in the reading room, or as audiovisual cassettes and DVDs at the Multimedia Teaching Centre.

In line with its work of collecting archives and disseminating documents, the Memorial continues to collect new testimonies from deportees, hidden children, rescuers, resistance fighters or even descendants of first witnesses. After cross-checking and validation, these testimonies will enrich the collection of the documentation center.

You have written a testimony on paper, or you have recorded it on cassette, CD or any other medium, and you wish to submit it to the Memorial’s archives department, contact the Archives department:

Tel: 01 42 77 44 72 or send an email to the archives department