An Illustrated Search of Your Jewish Family in the Archives of France

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About the Talk:

For many foreign Jewish genealogists, France often appears as a black hole from which nothing seems to come out, barriers of language and enhanced protection of private data in public archives. It is forgetting that France is a country where the administration reigns in royalty and preserves quite carefully innumerable public archives without forgetting the private archives of the Jewish communities: the Jews were not invisible and we find most of them in these archives, as far as Rachi (1040-1105) and up to the immigrant Jews of the years 1950-1960. It is not a question in this illustrated lecture of simply listing the archives, but to present in images the documents that make it possible to find the French part of the history of your Jewish family, for the better (Men ist azoy wie Gott un Frankreich, Happy as God in France) and for the worst like during the Holocaust!

About the Speaker:

Bernard Flam is an electronic engineer and director of companies.

Galitzianer on his paternal side, Lodzer on his maternal side, he put the expertise acquired during his research on his ancestors of Yiddishland at the service of other Jewish genealogy detectives.

He started and conducts the weekly Jewish genealogy workshop at the Centre Medem – Arbeter Ring (Workers Circle de France).

In addition to the Bund and Skif, he specializes in research to find the French part of the history of Jewish families, before, during and after the Holocaust.

He has given numerous multimedia lectures (Memorial de la Shoah, B'nai B'rith, MCY, OSE, WFJHS&D, etc.) with the following keywords:

• for Poland, Genealogy, Jewish political movements and after 1940, Lodz ghetto. 

• for France: Immigration before 1939; after 1940, Jewish resistance, internments and deportations, hidden children and illegal passage to Switzerland; after 1945, homes of surviving children. 



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Wed 21st May 2025
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