The Contemporary Jewish Documentation Centre Foundation (CDEC) of Milan is an important reference point for scholars from all over the world. It houses a vast documentary archive and is involved in preservation, consultancy and research activities. Founded in 1955, CDEC was officially acknowledged in 1986, by the Ministry of Culture, as comprising an Institute of national interest. CDEC is today one of the four major European institutes conducting scientific studies on contemporary antisemitism. All over the world it is regarded as a model of reliability and efficiency in its research activities, and it is in ongoing collaboration with its foreign counterparts (Yad Vashem in Jerusalem, the Diaspora Institute at Tel Aviv University, the Vidal Sassoon Institute at Jerusalem University, the Institute of Jewish Affairs in London, the Simon Wiesenthal Centres in Vienna and Los Angeles). CDEC's activities are driven by four main departments: the Library, numbering over 15,000 books and 1,500 periodicals - 125 of which are current; the Historical archives, regarding Jewish organizations since the end of last century and Nazi and Fascist persecutions between 1938 and 1945; the Department of research and studies, an observatory on contemporary prejudice and antisemitism; the Videotèque, which, with over 3,000 cassettes (films, documentaries, interviews) represents the primary European collection on this matter. The Foundation's aim is to ensure the document collection and to promote the study of Jews' fortunes, events, culture and reality, with particular reference to Italy and contemporary issues. To this end, amongst the several initiatives on the part of CDEC, two projects hold particular significance: firstly, the publication of Il libro della memoria. Gli ebrei deportati dall'Italia 1943-45 (The Book of Memory. Jews deported from Italy 1943-45), by Liliana Picciotto Fargion - a fundamental document on the deportation of Italian Jews; and secondly, the production of Memoria. I sopravvissuti raccontano (Memory. Survivors tell their story), a film based on interviews with Italian survivors of the Shoah, devised by Liliana Picciotto Fargion and Marcello Pezzetti, the authors of this cd-rom.
Remember - Cibrary of the holocaust
The Nizkor Project
Anne Frank Online
Simon Weisenthal Center
A Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust
Virtual Auschwitz-Birkenau
The Holocaust/Genocide Project
Avalon Project at the Yale Law School
The Holocaust/Shoa Page
