The library’s inventories

The library at the documentation center of the Shoah Memorial makes various inventories available to readers in the reading room:

• Newspapers and periodicals available on site
• Books of Remembrance for Missing Communities / Yizker Bikher (יזכר ביכער) available on site
• Recent acquisitions
• Press reviews and press clippings reviews available on site
• Digital newspaper inventory catalogues
• An inventory of testimonies and war stories (1940s)
• An inventory of reprints
• A catalogue inventory of the periodicals in the EEIF fund
• And on specific request: works in Hebrew and Yiddish (which can be made available to readers within ten days)

Provision of readers

The Shoah Memorial Library makes available to readers in the reading room and on the internet the following inventories:

Inventory of press reviews and press clipping reviews

These press reviews were developed for and by the Shoah Memorial around the various cultural events of the Shoah Memorial.
The reviews of press clippings are largely made up by the Shoah Memorial Library and concern various subjects.

INVENTORY OF PRESS REVIEWS

This inventory is also available by thematic classification:

THEMATIC INDEX OF PRESS REVIEWS

Inventory of newspapers and periodicals in German

The library of the Shoah Memorial has also compiled an inventory of various newspapers and periodicals in the German language. This non-exhaustive inventory of the collections of the Shoah Memorial includes a brief description of the orientation of these newspapers and periodicals.

INVENTORY OF GERMAN PERIODICALS

Inventory of Books of Remembrance for disappeared communities (Yizker Bikher)

These books are in various languages, with an abundant iconography and are available immediately in the reading room.

INVENTORY OF THE BOOKS OF REMEMBRANCE

Inventory of documents and books in Hebrew and Yiddish

These works are accessible to the reader upon prior reservation. See conditions of consultation.

INVENTORY OF HEBREW AND YIDDISH BOOKS

Inventory of newspapers and periodicals carried out by SUDOC

This inventory was developed by SUDOC (University Documentation System). The notices were made from data provided by the Shoah Memorial Library. It does not cover the completeness of the library fonds.

INVENTORY CARRIED OUT BY THE SUDOC

Inventory of testimonies and war stories: 1940s-1950s

The library of the Shoah Memorial has digitized a series of war stories and testimonies in French published between 1940 and 1950. These digitized books are available and can be consulted on a computer in the reading room only.

INVENTORY OF WAR STORIES AND TESTIMONIES

inventory of the offcuts

The Shoah Memorial Library has a set of separate excerpts that can be consulted on request in the reading room by indicating the reference (number).

INVENTORY OF THE OFFCUTS

Catalogue Inventory and presentation of digitized newspapers in French available in the reading room of the Documentation Centre

The Shoah Memorial Library makes digitized newspapers from its holdings available to the public in the reading room on computers. Download here the inventory catalogs of:

IN THE PILLORY

I AM EVERYWHERE

PARIS-SOIR

PARIS-SOIR (OCCUPIED AREA)

PARIS-MIDI

THE MORNING

THE YELLOW NOTEBOOK

RELIVING

Catalog inventory of university work

The library of the Shoah Memorial makes academic works available to the public. They are available on request in the reading room.

INVENTORY OF ACADEMIC WORK

Catalogue inventory of EEIF Periodicals – Library

Since 2021, the Library of the Shoah Memorial has been processing a collection of Jewish Scouts of France (monographs and periodicals).

INVENTORY OF CATALOGUED PERIODICALS FROM THE EEIF FUND

STATUS OF THE CATALOGUED COLLECTIONS OF PERIODICALS FROM THE EEIF FUND

This fund will be open for consultation during 2023. The monographs are indicated via the documentary portal.

This project has received the support of the Rothschild Foundation in London (UK).

How to consult the documents indicated in these inventories?

Online inventories

For any document order please address your request to bibliotheque@memorialdelashoah.org specifying the type of document desired:

• Press reviews or press clipping reviews:
  Title of the press review or press clippings, box number, inventory number.
• German-language periodicals:
  Title of the periodical, Date and/or Number of the periodical.
• Yizker Bikher / Books of remembrance:
  Place name, Book of Remembrance reference (or Yizker Bukh)
• Inventory of periodicals conducted by SUDOC:
  Title of the periodical, Date and/or Number of the periodical.
• The digitized newspapers in French are available for consultation in the reading room, on a computer station

Order of works in Hebrew and Yiddish:

• You can order them by writing to bibliotheque@memorialdelashoah.org or to salledelecture@memorialdelashoah.org specifying the author, the title, the edition of the desired document as well as (indispensable) the reference of the series and the document number.
• You can order them on site in the reading room by specifying the author, the title, the edition of the desired document, as well as (essential) the series reference and the document number.
• Deadline for availability: 10 days

The procedure for consultation of documents is indicated in each inventory on the internet according to its specificity.