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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.
Biography
= Family
=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. 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, Sylvie Wieviorka, and Olivier Wieviorka.
= Training
=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. It was reissued in 2003 by Hachette editions.
= A committed historian
=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.
= Academic career
=Research director at the CNRS, 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 for Tombeaux : autobiographie de ma famille.
Publications
L'Écureuil de Chine, Paris, Les presses d'aujourd'hui, 1979 (livre de souvenirs autobiographiques sur son séjour en Chine de 1974 à 1976 - wiewiórka means "squirrel" in Polish) ISBN 2070293017
Ils étaient juifs, résistants, communistes, Denoël, 1986
Le procès de Nuremberg, Ouest-France/Mémorial de Caen, Rennes, Paris, 1995 ISBN 2737315778
with Jean-Jacques Becker (dir.), Les Juifs de France, Éditions Liana Levi, « Histoire », 1998 ISBN 2867461812
Auschwitz expliqué à ma fille, Éditions du Seuil, Paris, 1999 ISBN 2020366991
L'Ère du témoin, Hachette, « Pluriel », Paris, 2002. ISBN 2012790461
Déportation et génocide. Entre la mémoire et l'oubli, Hachette, « Pluriel », Paris, 2003.
Auschwitz, 60 ans après, Robert Laffont, Paris, 2005 ISBN 2221102983Également publié sous le titre Auschwitz, la mémoire d'un lieu, Hachette, « Pluriel », Paris, 2006 ISBN 2012793029
Juifs et Polonais : 1939 à nos jours, Albin Michel, coll. « Bibliothèque histoire », Paris, 2009 ISBN 9782226187055
Maurice et Jeannette. Biographie du couple Thorez, Fayard, Paris, 2010 ISBN 9782213654485 compte rendu de l'ouvrage
Eichmann de la Traque au Procès, André Versaille, Bruxelles, 2011 ISBN 9782874951398. Également publié sous le titre Le Procès Eichmann, Complexe, « La Mémoire du Siècle », Bruxelles, 1989
L'Heure d'exactitude ; Histoire, mémoire, témoignage, (Entretiens avec Séverine Nikel), Albin Michel, 2011 ISBN 978-2-226-20894-1
Nouvelles perspectives sur la Shoah, PUF, Paris, 2013, 128 p. ISBN 9782130619277.
1945, La découverte, Seuil, Paris, janvier 2015, 282 p. ISBN 978-2-02-118263-7.
with Sylvie Lindeperg (dir.), Le moment Eichmann, Albin Michel, 2016 ISBN 978-2-22-631502-1
with Danièle Voldman, Tristes grossesses : l'affaire des époux Bac (1953-1956), Paris, Le Seuil, 2019.
Mes années chinoises, Stock, 2021. ISBN 978-2-2340-8745-3, réédition Points No. P6196, 2024 ISBN 979-10-414-1473-4
Tombeaux : Autobiographie de ma famille, Éditions du Seuil, Paris, 2022, 400 p. ISBN 9782021478198
Anatomie de l'Affiche rouge, Éditions du Seuil, Paris, 2024 ISBN 978-2021559422
Filmography
Le procès d'Adolf Eichmann [The Trial of Adolf Eichmann] (1997), written by Annette Wieviorka and Michaël Prazan, directed by Michaël Prazan.
14 récits d'Auschwitz [14 Stories from Auschwitz] (2002), a documentary series proposed by Annette Wieviorka, creator and writer, with Henri Borlant, directed by Caroline Roulet.This documentary was produced in conjunction with Annette Wieviorka's participation in a program of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies of Yale University.
Témoignages pour Mémoire [Testimony for Memory] (2007), written by Annette Wieviorka, Geneviève Decrop, Claudine Drame, and Régine Waintrater (English translation by Ruth Rachel Anderson-Avraham, also a producer on the project), directed by Claudine Drame.
Le procès d'Adolf Eichmann [The Trial of Adolf Eichmann] (2011) Infrarouge, written by Annette Wieviorka and Michaël Prazan, directed by Michaël Prazan.
References
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- Annette Wieviorka
- Wieviorka
- Rachel Cusk
- Michel Wieviorka
- Sylvie Wieviorka
- Second Place (novel)
- Robert Falco
- Stéphane Courtois
- Evidence and documentation for the Holocaust
- Holocaust denial
