Signing of a convention for the digitization of the archives of the Ministry of Defense relating to the Shoah

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

Jean-Marc Todeschini, Secretary of State to the Minister of Defense, in charge of Veterans and Memory, signed an agreement with the Shoah Memorial 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 convention aims to digitize the archives of the Ministry of Defense relating 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 kept by the Ministry of Defense.