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Annette Wieviorka (born January 10, 1948) is a French historian. She is a specialist in the

Holocaust The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah, was the genocide of European Jews during World War II. Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews across German-occupied Europe; a ...

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 Paris Nanterre University (French: ''Université Paris Nanterre''), formerly Paris-X and commonly referred to as Nanterre, is a public research university based in Nanterre, Paris, France. It is one of the most prestigious French universities, ma ...

Biography

Family

Annette Wieviorka's paternal grandparents,

Polish Jews The history of the Jews in Poland dates back at least 1,000 years. For centuries, Poland was home to the largest and most significant Ashkenazi Jewish community in the world. Poland was a principal center of Jewish culture, because of the lo ...

, were arrested in

Nice Nice ( , ; Niçard: , classical norm, or , nonstandard, ; it, Nizza ; lij, Nissa; grc, Νίκαια; la, Nicaea) is the prefecture of the Alpes-Maritimes department in France. The Nice agglomeration extends far beyond the administrative c ...

during the

war War is an intense armed conflict between states, governments, societies, or paramilitary groups such as mercenaries, insurgents, and militias. It is generally characterized by extreme violence, destruction, and mortality, using regular o ...

and murdered in

Auschwitz Auschwitz concentration camp ( (); also or ) was a complex of over 40 concentration and extermination camps operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland (in a portion annexed into Germany in 1939) during World War II and the Holocaust. It con ...

. 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 Siedlce [] ( yi, שעדליץ ) is a city in eastern Poland with 77,354 inhabitants (). Situated in the Masovian Voivodeship (since 1999), previously the city was the capital of a separate Siedlce Voivodeship (1975–1998). The city is situated b ...

. 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 Drancy internment camp was an assembly and detention camp for confining Jews who were later deported to the extermination camps during the German occupation of France during World War II. Originally conceived and built as a modernist urban commu ...

to Auschwitz. They were detained before at

Beaune-la-Rolande internment camp Beaune-la-Rolande internment camp was an internment and transit camp for foreign-born Jews (men, women, and children), located in Beaune-la-Rolande in occupied German military administration in occupied France during World War II, France, it was ...

. Her father, a refugee in Switzerland, and her mother, daughter of a Parisian tailor, refugee in Grenoble, survived the war. She is the sister of

Michel Wieviorka Michel Wieviorka (born 23 August 1946, Paris) is a French sociologist, noted for his work on violence, terrorism, racism, social movements and the theory of social change. He was the 16th president of International Sociological Association (200 ...

, Sylvie Wieviorka, and

Olivier Wieviorka Olivier Wieviorka (born 1960), is a French historian specializing in the history of World War II and the French Resistance. He is a faculty member at the École normale supérieure de Cachan. He is the brother of historian Annette Wieviorka and ...

Training

Annette Wieviorka has a history (1989) and a doctorate in history (1991). Her thesis, supervised by

Annie Kriegel Annie Kriegel, née Annie Becker (born 9 September 1926, Paris; died 26 August 1995, Paris) was a French historian, a leading expert on communist studies and the history of Communism, a cofounder (1982) of the academic journal ''Communisme'' (wi ...

, 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. It was reissued in 2003 by

Hachette Hachette may refer to: * Hachette (surname) * Hachette (publisher), a French publisher, the imprint of Lagardère Publishing ** Hachette Book Group, the American subsidiary ** Hachette Distribution Services, the distribution arm See also * Hachett ...

editions.

A committed historian

During the 1970s, she was politically involved in the

Maoist Maoism, officially called Mao Zedong Thought by the Chinese Communist Party, is a variety of Marxism–Leninism that Mao Zedong developed to realise a socialist revolution in the agricultural, pre-industrial society of the Republic of Ch ...

movement. From 1974 to 1976, she was a professor of French language and civilization in Canton. 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.

Academic career

Research director at the

CNRS The French National Centre for Scientific Research (french: link=no, Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS) is the French state research organisation and is the largest fundamental science agency in Europe. In 2016, it employed 31,637 ...

, she was a member of the Study Mission on the Spoliation of Jews in France, known as the Mattéoli Mission.

Accolades

Wieviorka was awarded the 2022

Prix Femina essai The prix Femina essai is a French literary prize awarded to an essay. Established in 1999, it replaced the prix Femina Vacaresco.Jean-Jacques Becker (dir.), ''Les Juifs de France'', Éditions Liana Levi, « Histoire », 1998 * ''

expliqué à ma fille'', Éditions du Seuil, Paris, 1999 * ''L'Ère du témoin'', Hachette, « Pluriel », Paris, 2002. * ''Déportation et génocide. Entre la mémoire et l'oubli'', Hachette, « Pluriel », Paris, 2003. * ''Auschwitz, 60 ans après'', Robert Laffont, Paris, 2005
Également publié sous le titre ''Auschwitz, la mémoire d'un lieu'', Hachette, « Pluriel », Paris, 2006 * ''Juifs et Polonais : 1939 à nos jours'', Albin Michel, coll. « Bibliothèque histoire », Paris, 2009 * ''Maurice et Jeannette. Biographie du couple Thorez'', Fayard, Paris, 2010
compte rendu de l'ouvrage
* ''

Eichmann Otto Adolf Eichmann ( ,"Eichmann"
''

Shoah The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah, was the genocide of European Jews during World War II. Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews across German-occupied Europe; ar ...

'', PUF, Paris, 2013, 128 p. . * ''1945, La découverte'',
Seuil
', Paris, janvier 2015, 282 p. . * avec (dir.), ''Le moment

Eichmann Otto Adolf Eichmann ( ,"Eichmann"
''

Le Seuil, 2019.

References

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