Breaking the silence: the Centre de Documentation Juive Contemporaine in Paris and the writing of Holocaust history in liberated France

Jokusch explains that Schneersohn, the founder of the Centre, depicted the Centre's mission as an adjunct to efforts by France to come to terms with the war years. Its publications attributed anti-semitism in France to external influences and reduced the despoliation and deportation of Jews to the work of a collaborationist group that betrayed the true principles of the Republic