Archives de l'ORT

The bulk of the ORT-archives have been deposited at the Mémorial de la Shoah. The Archives & History department holds precious documents testifying to a century of activity: posters, association newspapers, photographs, student registers, activity reports, etc. Most of the collection concerns ORT's activities in France. However, some archives, notably photographs, also illustrate the activities of other branches of the international organisation at different times: in Germany, South Africa, Iran, Cuba, Shanghai, etc. Some of the nuggets preserved within ORT France have already been made known to the general public through temporary exhibitions, documentary films and books. The celebration, in 2021, of the centenary of the French association will offer new opportunities to highlight its archives and its fabulous history; a history marked above all by its unfailing commitment to persecuted Jewish populations and refugees, its concern to help them morally and materially by providing them with the means to work.