Misplaced Pages

Olivier Wieviorka

Article snapshot taken from Wikipedia with creative commons attribution-sharealike license. Give it a read and then ask your questions in the chat. We can research this topic together.
French historian

Olivier Wiewiorka
2013
Born (1960-02-02) 2 February 1960 (age 64)
Enghien-les-Bains, France
Alma materÉcole Normale Supérieure de Saint-Cloud
Sciences Po
Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University
OccupationHistorian

Olivier Wiewiorka (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 Wiewiorka and sociologist Michel Wiewiorka.

His paternal grandparents, Polish Jews, were arrested in Nice during World War II and murdered at Auschwitz. His father, a refugee in Switzerland, and his mother, daughter of a Parisian tailor and a refugee in Grenoble, survived the war.

Works

Normandy: The Landings to the Liberation of Paris (Harvard University Press, 2018)

References

  1. ^ Astro, Alan (14 July 2021). "Annette Wiewiorka". Shalvi/Hyman Encyclopedia of Jewish Women. Jewish Women's Archive. Retrieved 30 September 2022.
  2. "Annette Wiewiorka". Archived from the original on 22 April 2012. Retrieved 2 March 2018.
Categories:
Olivier Wieviorka Add topic