The online catalog of the photo library

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.

Since 1994, the photo service has been tasked with strengthening its collections, particularly those concerning the history of the Jews of France during the Second World War, their countries of origin and the post-war period. The photo library has a large film collection, a collection of historical posters with more than 5,000 original pieces and a unique Judaica postcard collection.

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 collection now consists of more than 300,000 photographs, a third of which are available online, depending on the rights to the images (available in the reading room or on our website).

For any information, deposit of photographs or order please contact by email the photo service which will reply to you as soon as possible.

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