Fonds Anny Latour (DLXI)
Extent and Medium
2,253 digital images, JPEG
Creator(s)
- Anny Latour
Biographical History
Anny Latour was a French historian and author of the book: La Résistance juive en France, 1940-1944, Paris: Stock, 1970, and the author of several historical publications. She has also participated in various resistance actions such as the rescue of a rural construction site where young people were prepared for future work in Palestine and threatened with deportation. She also joined the Jewish Army. Her book, The Jewish Resistance in France, 1940-1944, is a key publication in French historiography.
Archival History
Mémorial de la Shoah, Centre de Documentation Juive Contemporaine
Acquisition
Source of acquisition is the Memorial to the Shoah, Jewish Contemporary Documentation Center (Mémorial de la Shoah, Centre de Documentation Juive Contemporaine), France. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum received the filmed collection via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum International Archival Programs Division in February 2017.
Scope and Content
Records collected by Anny Latour, a doctor of philosophy, historian and author of a book on Jewish resistance: La Résistance juive en France, 1940-1944, Paris: Stock, 1970. The archives constitute testimonies and general correspondence collected by Anny Latour in the framework of the research and writing of her book about Jewish resistance in France. She donated her archives to the CDJC and disappeared. There was no trace of her to ask for authorization to use a testimony she recorded, or notes she took.
System of Arrangement
Arranged in one series: 1. Collection of testimonies and general records: Correspondence, list of persons contacted (1974). Individual files are arranged in an alphabetical order by last names of individuals.
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Copyright Holder: Mémorial de la Shoah, Centre de Documentation Juive Contemporaine
People
- Latour, Anny.
Subjects
- Jewish children--France.
- France--Ethnic relations.
- World War, 1939-1945--Jewish resistance--France.
- World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Rescue--France.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--France.
- Jews--Persecutions--France.
Genre
- Registers.
- Document
- Testimonies.
- Correspondence.