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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 March 10, 1896, in Minsk. The grandmother, Rosa Wiewiorka, née Feldman, was born on August 10, 1897, in Siedlce. Their last address in Nice is at 16 rue Reine Jeanne. They were deported by convoy No. 61, dated October 28, 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, 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 (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]
Patrick Cabanel is a French historian, director of studies at the École pratique des hautes études and holder of the chair in Histoire et sociologie des protestantismes. He mainly writes on the history of religious minorities, the construction of a secularised French Republic and French resistance to the Shoah.
Michel Wieviorka is a French sociologist, noted for his work on violence, terrorism, racism, social movements and the theory of social change.
Antoinette Feuerwerker was a French jurist and an active fighter in the French Resistance during the Second World War.
Régine Pernoud was a French historian and archivist. Pernoud was one of the most prolific medievalists in 20th century France; more than any other single scholar of her time, her work advanced and expanded the study of Joan of Arc.
Shmuel Trigano is a sociologist, philosopher, professor emeritus of sociology at Paris Nanterre University. He was Tikvah Fund Visiting Professor in Jewish Law and Thought at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, New York (2009), and Templeton Fellow at the Herzl Institute (Jerusalem) program "Philosophy of the Tanakh, Midrash and Talmud" (2012-2013), (2015-2017). Elia Benamozegh European Chair of Sephardic Studies, Livorno, Italy (2002).
Benjamin Stora is a French historian, expert on North Africa, who is widely considered one of the world's leading authorities on Algerian history. He was born in a Jewish family that left the country following its War of Independence in 1962. Stora holds two PhDs and a Doctorate of the State (1991).
Isaac Schneersohn was a French rabbi, industrialist, and the founder of the first Holocaust Archives and Memorial. He emigrated from Ukraine to France after the First World War.
André Rogerie was a member of the French Resistance in World War II and survivor of seven Nazi concentration camps who testified after the war about what he had seen in the camps.
Led by Philippe Pétain, the Vichy regime that replaced the French Third Republic in 1940 chose the path of collaboration with the Nazi occupiers. This policy included the Bousquet-Oberg accords of July 1942 that formalized the collaboration of the French police with the German police. This collaboration was manifested in particular by anti-Semitic measures taken by the Vichy government, and by its active participation in the genocide.
Laure Adler is a French journalist, writer, publisher and radio/TV producer.
Pierre Birnbaum is a French historian and sociologist.
Pierre Moustiers is the pen name of French writer Pierre Rossi.
Georges Bensoussan is a French historian. Bensoussan was born in Morocco. He is the editor of the Revue d'histoire de la Shoah. He won the Memory of the Shoah Prize from the Jacob Buchman Foundation in 2008.
Simon Epstein is an Israeli economist and historian.
Sylvie Wieviorka, is a French psychiatrist, academic, and politician.
The Study Mission on the Spoliation of Jews in France, also known as the Mission Mattéoli, was set up in March 1997 by Alain Juppé, then Prime Minister, and chaired by Jean Mattéoli.
Annette Muller was a French writer and Holocaust survivor. She was an escapee of the Vel' d'Hiv Roundup. Her autobiography, La petite fille du Vel' d'Hiv, published in 1991, gives rare accounts of the roundup and the destiny of her fellow prisoners.
Denise Holstein is an Auschwitz concentration camp survivor and Holocaust witness, who was liberated on 15 April 1945. As a Holocaust witness, Holstein tells her story in two books and in a documentary made by a student from the Lycée Corneille in Rouen. For almost fifty years, Holstein never spoke about her life before writing about it. As a Holocaust witness, Holstein visits school children, to describe and share her experiences.
François Bédarida, was a French academic historian. His work centred on Victorian England and France in WWII. He made significant research contributions to the study of The Holocaust. He was a director of the Maison française in Oxford among other leadership roles.
Convoy n° 77 of July 31, 1944 the last large convoy of Jews deported from the Drancy internment camp to the Bobigny train station for the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp.
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