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Annette Wieviorka (born January 10, 1948) is a French historian. She is a specialist in the Holocaust and the history of the Jewish people in the 20th century since the 1992 publication of her thesis, Deportation and genocide between memory and forgetting, defended in 1991 at the Paris Nanterre University. [1] [2]
Annette Wieviorka's paternal grandparents, Polish Jews, were arrested in Nice during the war and murdered in Auschwitz. The grandfather, Wolf Wiewiorka, was born on 10 March 1896, in Minsk. The grandmother, Rosa Wiewiorka, née Feldman, was born on 10 August 1897, in Siedlce. Their last address in Nice was at 16 rue Reine Jeanne. They were deported by convoy No. 61, dated 28 October 1943, from Drancy internment camp to Auschwitz. They were detained before at Beaune-la-Rolande internment camp. [3] Her father, a refugee in Switzerland, and her mother, daughter of a Parisian tailor, a refugee in Grenoble, survived the war. [4] [5] She is the sister of Michel Wieviorka, Sylvie Wieviorka, and Olivier Wieviorka.
Annette Wieviorka has a history degree (1989) and a doctorate in history (1991). Her thesis, supervised by Annie Kriegel, is entitled Deportation and genocide: oblivion and memory 1943-1948: the case of the Jews in France. This thesis gave rise to a publication in 1992 by Plon. [6] It was reissued in 2003 by Hachette editions.
During the 1970s, she was politically involved in the Maoist movement. From 1974 to 1976, she was a professor of French language and civilization in Guangzhou.
She is involved with the Primo Levi Center (care and support for victims of torture and political violence) as a member of its support committee. [7]
Research director at the CNRS, [8] she was a member of the Study Mission on the Spoliation of Jews in France, known as the Mattéoli Mission. [9]
Wieviorka was awarded the 2022 Prix Femina essai for Tombeaux : autobiographie de ma famille. [10]
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