Isaac Schneersohn
| Isaac Schneersohn | |
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| Born | 1879 or 1881 Kamenetz-Podolsk, Ukraine |
| Died | 1969 (age 88 or 90) Paris |
| Nationality | French |
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| Organization | Center of Contemporary Jewish Documentation |
Isaac Schneersohn (1879 or 1881–1969) was a French rabbi, industrialist, and the founder of the first Holocaust Archives and Memorial. He emigrated from Ukraine to France after the First World War.
In 1943 while under Italian wartime occupation, Schneersohn founded a documentation center at his home in Grenoble with representatives from 40 Jewish organizations. The center moved to Paris at Liberation and became the Center of Contemporary Jewish Documentation. Schneersohn remained President of the CDJC and editor of its Revue until his death in 1969.
Isaac Schneersohn was born in Kamenetz-Podolsk, currently in the Ukraine, in 1879 or 1881.
Schneersohn served as a crown rabbi in Gorodnya and Chernigov in northern Ukraine. He was active both socially and politically, becoming involved in community affairs and education, as well as becoming a council member and deputy mayor in Ryazan as a member of the moderate liberal party.
Originally from the Russian Empire, Isaac Schneersohn emigrated to France in 1920 after the Bolshevik revolution. He was naturalized as a French citizen during the inter-wars years.
In Paris,"His home became a place where Jewish leaders met, many of them Zionists, mostly right-wing Revisionists, as he had become."
Schneersohn had a brother, Dr. Fishel Schneerson and three sons: Boris, Arnold, and Michel, who were mobilized as reserve officers in the French Army. Boris and Arnold were captured and interned at the disciplinary camp at Lübeck. Michel was liberated in August 1940. He then took part in the fight as a member of the Dordogne Maquis.
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