How to Pronounce Isaac Schneersohn
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Mar 14, 1881 Kamianets Podilskyi, Khmelnytsky Oblast, Ukraine Died on 24 Jun 1969 (aged 88)
French rabbi and resistance member
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About Isaac Schneersohn
- 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.
