Selected records from the National Resistance Museum, including the Leibovici collection
Extent and Medium
3,478 digital images, JPEG
1 microfilm reel (digitized), 16 mm
Creator(s)
- Xavier Aumage
Archival History
Musée de la Résistance Nationale à Champigny
Acquisition
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the collection from the Musée de la Résistance à Champigny, via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s International Archives Project in August 2008.
Scope and Content
This collection contains the personal archive of Raymond Leibovici, a French doctor of Romanian descent, who was instrumental in creating the wartime resistance network Comite Medical de la Resistance (CMR) in the highly conservative medical milieu. Included are biographical information; publications from the Comite national des medecins (1944-1948); the Editions de minuit; clandestine publications produced by the national front from 1941 to 1944; and documents concerning the Services de Sante des FFI and the FTPF, the Military government of Paris and Military Region of Limoge. A set of records concerning antisemitism are also included.
People
- Leibovici, Raymond.
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--France.
- Guerrillas--France--Biography.
- World War, 1939-1945--Jewish resistance--France.
Genre
- Document
Copies
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum holds copies of Holocaust-relevant archives from Musée de la Résistance Nationale à Champigny