Annette Wieviorka

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 grandmother, Rosa Wiewiorka, née Feldman, was born on 10 August 1897, in Siedlce.

Her thesis, supervised by Annie Kriegel, is entitled Deportation and genocide: oblivion and memory 1943-1948: the case of the Jews in France.

[9] Wieviorka was awarded the 2022 Prix Femina essai for Tombeaux : autobiographie de ma famille.