The library catalog
The library of the Documentation Center of the Shoah Memorial contains 80,000 books and documents dealing with the destruction of the Jews of Europe, the persecution of the Jews, the history of 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 Documentation Centre of the Shoah Memorial is an extension of the library of the Center for Contemporary Jewish Documentation which, from its origin in 1943, has constituted a documentary collection with thematic axes:
- the persecution and destruction of the Jews of Europe
- 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 accessible which represent a varied set of books, academic works, drawn separately, typescripts, Yizker Bikher (books of remembrance of the disappeared Jewish communities) as well as press reviews and thematic press clippings and numerous 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 Mémorial de la Shoah have for main themes: the extermination of the Jews of Europe, the persecution of the Jews, the history of the resistance to Nazism, the Second World War, the anti-Semitism. These themes are addressed according to different disciplines and perspectives.
The library of the Shoah Memorial is not limited to the sole domain 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 20th 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 from the Nuremberg trials and a large set of documents on the Dreyfus affair.
A lighter version of the catalog is available on this site.
The Library Documentation Centre of the Shoah Memorial offers an online consultation of part of its computerized catalog of documents that can be consulted immediately 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. Digitized documents are available on a computer in the reading room.
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