Isaac Schneersohn

Deceased Person

1879 – 1969

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Who was Isaac Schneersohn?

Isaac Schneersohn was a French rabbi, industrialist, and the founder of the first Holocaust Archives and Memorial, born in Ukraine.

On April 28, 1943, He founded, under the Nazi Occupation at Grenoble, in collaboration with the philosopher Jacob Gordin, the futur Center for Contemporary Jewish Documentation [Centre de Documentation Juive Contemporaine ] which will be integrated into the Shoah Memorial [Mémorial de la Shoah] in 1997.

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Born
1879
Died
1969

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on July 23, 2013

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