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type: CorporateBody
sources: The Central Registry of Information on Looted Cultural Property 1933-1945, http://www.lootedart.com/
date: 1943/present
has or had agent name: CDJC
has or had agent name: Center for Contemporary Jewish Documentation
history: When the Centre de Documentation Juive Contemporaine was founded in 1943 in Grenoble by a committee set up by Isaac Schneersohn, it was a clandestine organization. Its specific objective was to document the Shoah by pooling the information of Jewish organizations and scholars and by collecting documentary evidence. After the liberation of France in 1944, the founder, Isaac Schneersohn, and Léon Poliakov, in charge of research, moved the CDJC to Paris to save it from destruction and to sequester the archives of the Vichy government and of the German occupying forces. Later the CDJC became one of the official repositories of the Nuremberg trial documents.
is or was subject of: us-005578-irn564183
is or was subject of: de-002624-slg-ed 422-7
is or was subject of: us-005578-irn501987
is or was subject of: us-005578-irn556061
is or was subject of: us-005578-irn556063
is or was subject of: us-005578-irn501986
is or was subject of: us-005578-irn37050
name: Centre de Documentation Juive Contemporaine