Entrust us with your archives
The Memorial is also a place of education and training, all generations are involved in this process. Each document is a story. Families are invited to contribute to the enrichment of the documentary collection of the Holocaust Memorial.
In order to welcome you in strict compliance with health conditions, the photo service offers to make an appointment with our documentalists.
Enrich the documentation
Since its creation in 1943, the Contemporary Jewish Documentation Centre has continuously collected documents, archives, photographs, books and periodicals testifying to the fate of the Jews of Europe, especially in France, during the Second World War, and to the history of Jewish communities before and after the Holocaust.
Today, the collection of the Centre de Documentation Juive Contemporaine continues to grow with the delivery of documents andprivate archives, by depositing archives of organizations or personalities having 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 Shoah but also during the period from 1880 to 1948.
DEPOSIT ARCHIVES AT DOCUMENTATION CENTRE
Deposit your archives (documents, photos, books, films, objects...) at the Memorial’s documentation centre or give a copy of them, is to contribute to the transmission, research and study of the history of the Jews of Europe in the 20th century, while ensuring the continuity of documents entrusted to the Documentation Centre.
For all those who cannot go to Paris to deposit their archives, the Shoah Memorial organizes national collections of archives every year and comes to your meeting throughout France. Do not hesitate to contact the Memorial if you wish to deposit your archives and cannot travel to Paris.
Contact: Lior Lalieu-Smadja – 01.53.01.17.28 or lior.smadja@memorialdelashoah.org or archives@memorialdelashoah.org
Give or deposit your films
The photo library welcomes you and advises you in the delivery of your original films or copies that you wish to entrust to it. They will be saved, digitized and kept in our audiovisual archives.
We collect all types of films and recordings: family archives, testimonies, ceremonies, medal giving of the Just, commemorations, amateur or professional films.
If the films or recordings are on K7 audio or VHS, we scan them for better preservation and a copy is given to the donor.
Contact: phototheque@memorialdelashoah.org
Give books to the library
If you would like to donate your books to the Holocaust Memorial, please use the library’s online contact form.
For questions about the donation of books, please contact the Holocaust Memorial Library directly: bibliotheque@memorialdelashoah.org
Testify
Testimony is essential in building the memory of the Shoah. It is an irreplaceable source for the researcher and historian, it gives a human face to the transmission of knowledge indissociable from emotion.
Many testimonies, often forgotten or too little heard, have been collected at the Shoah Memorial Documentation Centre. These stories and interviews are available at the Memorial, in written form in the reading room, or as audiovisual cassettes and DVDs at the Centre d'enseignement multimédia.
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 descendants of first witnesses. After cross-checking and validation, these testimonies will enrich the documentation centre’s collection.
You have written a paper testimony, or you have recorded it on tape, CD or any other medium, and you wish to hand it over to the archives department of the Memorial, contact the Archives department:
Tel: 01 42 77 44 72 or send an email to the archives
The Memorial makes every effort to record and film the last witnesses of the Shoah so that their history and memory are preserved. For any information contact the photo library.
