Renée Poznanski (; born 26 April 1949 in

Paris Paris () is the Capital city, capital and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, largest city of France. With an estimated population of 2,048,472 residents in January 2025 in an area of more than , Paris is the List of ci ...

) is a French-born Israeli

historian A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human species; as well as the ...

, specialist in the

Holocaust The Holocaust (), known in Hebrew language, Hebrew as the (), was the genocide of History of the Jews in Europe, European Jews during World War II. From 1941 to 1945, Nazi Germany and Collaboration with Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy ...

, and the Jewish Resistance in France during the Second World War, who teaches at the

Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) (, ''Universitat Ben-Guriyon baNegev'') is a public university, public research university in Beersheba, Israel. Named after Israeli List of national founders, national founder David Ben-Gurion, the unive ...

, in

Beersheba Beersheba ( / ; ), officially Be'er-Sheva, is the largest city in the Negev desert of southern Israel. Often referred to as the "Capital of the Negev", it is the centre of the fourth-most populous metropolitan area in Israel, the eighth-most p ...

, in Israel.

Works

* Renée Poznanski, Denis Peschanski, ''Drancy en France: de la Cité de la Muette au 'camp des Juifs, Paris, Fayard, 2015. * Renée Poznanski (ed.), Jacques Biélinky, ''Journal 1940-1942. Un journaliste juif à Paris sous l’Occupation'', Paris, Éditions du CNRS and Cerf, sept. 2011, (First edition 1992). * Renée Poznanski, ''Propagandes et persécutions, La Résistance et le 'problème juif, Paris, Fayard, 2008. * Renée Poznanski, ''Les Juifs en France, pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale'', New pocket edition (in French), January 2005, Pluriel, Hachette-Littératures, Paris (First edition in 1994; English edition in 2001; Hebrew edition in 1999).

References

1949 births Living people 20th-century French Jews 20th-century French historians Academic staff of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev People from Paris {{France-historian-stub