Jewish Union for resistance and mutual aid Fonds David Diamant/Union des Juifs pour la Résistance et l'entr'aide (UJRE)

Identifier
irn524463
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2007.378
  • RG-43.093M
Dates
1 Jan 1918 - 31 Dec 1996
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • English
  • French
  • German
  • Polish
  • Spanish
  • Yiddish
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn524463

Extent and Medium

53,532 digital images, JPEG

13 microfilm reels (digitized), 16 mm

Archival History

Musée de la Résistance Nationale à Champigny

Acquisition

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the collection from Musée de la Résistance Nationale via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's International Archives Project in Nov. 2007.

Scope and Content

This collection contains information about David Diamant (David Erlich), a Communist who remained in Paris during World War II, took part in the Resistance, and after the war worked with the UJRE helping Jewish refugees from Poland. It includes documents concerning Jewish immigrants in the Communist Party; documents of Jewish volunteers in the Spanish Civil War; the final letters of Jewish resistance fighters before their execution; postwar personal files on Polish Jews requesting aid; files on children in Communist-sponsored orphanages (Comité central de l'enfance); books from lending libraries at internment camps for Jews; minutes of the UJRE; collections of the periodical Naïe Presse and its French-language successor, La Presse Nouvelle; and typed manuscripts of various versions of Diamant's books in Yiddish and French.

System of Arrangement

Arrangement is thematic

People

  • Diamant, David.

Subjects

  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--France.
  • France--History--German occupation, 1940-1945.
  • World War, 1939-1945--France.
  • France--Politics and government--1914-1940.
  • Jews--Legal status, laws, etc.--France--History--20th century.

Genre

  • Document
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