Annette Wieviorka


Annette Wieviorka 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 10 March 1896, in Minsk. The grandmother, Rosa Wiewiorka, née Feldman, was born on 10 August 1897, in Siedlce. Their last address in Nice was at 16 rue Reine Jeanne. They were deported by convoy No. 61, dated 28 October 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, a refugee in Grenoble, survived the war. She is the sister of Michel Wieviorka, Sylvie Wieviorka, and Olivier Wieviorka.

Training

Annette Wieviorka has a history degree and a doctorate in history. 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 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 Ils étaient juifs, résistants, communistes, Denoël, 1986Le procès de Nuremberg, Ouest-France/Mémorial de Caen, Rennes, Paris, 1995
  • with Jean-Jacques Becker, Les Juifs de France, Éditions Liana Levi, « Histoire », 1998 Auschwitz 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 Eichmann de la Traque au Procès, André Versaille, Bruxelles, 2011. Également publié sous le titre Le Procès Eichmann, Complexe, « La Mémoire du Siècle », Bruxelles, 1989L'Heure d'exactitude; Histoire, mémoire, témoignage,, Albin Michel, 2011 Nouvelles perspectives sur la Shoah, PUF, Paris, 2013, 128 p..1945, La découverte, , Paris, janvier 2015, 282 p..

Filmography

  • Le procès d'Adolf Eichmann, written by Annette Wieviorka and Michaël Prazan, directed by Michaël Prazan.
  • 14 récits d'Auschwitz, 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, written by Annette Wieviorka, Geneviève Decrop, Claudine Drame, and Régine Waintrater, directed by Claudine Drame.
  • Le procès d'Adolf Eichmann Infrarouge, written by Annette Wieviorka and Michaël Prazan, directed by Michaël Prazan.