Leon Poliakov was the founder of the Center for Jewish Documentation.
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The Pete Quiñones ShowOct 10, 2026
Multiple sources state that Léon Poliakov co-founded the Centre de Documentation Juive Contemporaine (Center for Contemporary Jewish Documentation), so the claim that he was a founder holds. The claim drops the 'co-' qualifier, and one source credits Isaac Schneersohn with creating the center, with Poliakov as his secretary and later research head, so 'sole founder' would not be supported.
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… A residence that Hodo was maintaining in Budapest in the closing months of the war. And interestingly, those, that body of testimony, it was addressed, uh, by Leon Polyakov. Polyakov was a German Jew. Who later, who was a Russian Jew, forgive me, he was the founder of what's known as the Center for Jewish Documentation, which is exactly what it sounds like. It, it maintained war records of. European Jewry and attempted to discern the fates of these people and things. …
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Supports. Wikipedia and Ranker both say Poliakov cofounded the Center of Contemporary Jewish Documentation, established to collate documentation on the persecution of Jews during World War II.[1][2]
Supports. The Independent obituary says Poliakov became the co-founder of the Centre de Documentation Juive Contemporaine on his return to Paris in 1945, and GHWK says he co-founded it in 1943 with Isaac Schneersohn.[3][4]
Supports. The Shoah Memorial account names Schneersohn and Poliakov, head of the archives' research department, among the founders of the CDJC.[5]
Context. The EHNE encyclopedia entry says the center was created by Isaac Schneersohn in April 1943 and describes Poliakov as Schneersohn's secretary, so Poliakov was a founder but not the sole one.[6]
Context. The claim's name 'Center for Jewish Documentation' is a shortened form of the Centre de Documentation Juive Contemporaine (Center for Contemporary Jewish Documentation). The passage that the claim was extracted from is the claimant's own words and is not evidence.
Sources
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- 1Léon Poliakov - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org · not rated · cited for: supports
- 2Famous Historians from Franceranker.com · not rated · cited for: supports
- 3Obituary: Leon Poliakovindependent.co.uk · not rated · cited for: supports
- 4Léon Poliakovghwk.de · not rated · cited for: supports
- 5The Shoah Memorialnoa-project.eu · not rated · cited for: supports
- 6From the Center for Contemporary Jewish Documentation ...ehne.fr · not rated · cited for: context
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