Signing of an agreement for the digitization of the Ministry of Defense archives related to the Shoah

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Radu Ioanid (USHMM), Jean-Marc Todeschini and Jacques Fredj (Memorial of the Shoah)

Jean-Marc Todeschini, Secretary of State to the Minister of Defense, responsible for Veterans and Memory, signed an agreement with the Mémorial de la Shoah in Paris and the United States Holocaust memorial museum (USHMM) in Washington, in the Rochambeau lounge at the Hôtel de Brienne, on Thursday, December 8th at 10:00 am.

This agreement aims to digitize the archives of the Ministry of Defense related to the Shoah. It authorizes the Shoah Memorial and the USHMM to reproduce the archive concerning the persecution of Jews and other groups persecuted in France during the Second World War, held by the Ministry of Defense.