Annie Kriegel

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Annie Kriegel
University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
OccupationHistorian
Spouse(s)Guy Besse
Arthur Kriegel
FamilyJean-Jacques Becker (brother)

Annie Kriegel, née Annie Becker (9 September 1926 – 26 August 1995) was a French historian, a leading expert on

history of Communism, a cofounder (1982) of the academic journal Communisme (with Stéphane Courtois), and a columnist for Le Figaro.[1]

Career

Kriegel joined the

anticommunist
.

From 1954 she pursued research on the Communist movement in France at Sorbonne under the direction of

France observateur under the pseudonyms Stanislas Ligier and David Ellimer at the invitation of François Furet
.

In 1964, she joined the

anti-Stalinist Left. In 1970 she began writing for Le Figaro at the invitation of Raymond Aron whom she replaced as editor in 1977 after becoming a regular columnist in 1976.[2]

She collaborated with

War on Terror.[3] The journal Communisme, founded with Stéphane Courtois in 1982, was an extension of her seminar on the subject at Nanterre.[2]

Views

In 1990, she attacked the Gayssot Act, which criminalised Holocaust denial, as “legitimising an unbearable Jewish thought police”.[4]

Family

Her brother was the historian Jean-Jacques Becker, and she was married to Arthur Kriegel, a brother of Maurice Kriegel-Valrimont.

Commemoration

The Association Annie Kriegel, of which

Saint-Valéry-sur-Somme.[5]

The Association for the Memory of Past and Present Crimes of Communism (Association pour la mémoire des crimes historiques et actuels du communisme) was founded in 2012 in

Principal works

References

  1. ^ Obituary in L'Humanité, 28 August 1995
  2. ^ a b c d e "Kriegel Annie née Becker", Les Ex-PCF, retrieved 11 February 2024
  3. ^ Silverberg, David (20 October 2023), "On a Personal Note: The Life, Times and Responses of Bibi Netanyahu", The Paradise Progressive
  4. ^ Kriegel, Annie (3 April 1990), "Le leurre de l'antisémitisme", Le Figaro: 2
  5. ^ "Associations" (PDF), Journal officiel de la République française, 132 (46): 4962, 11 November 2000
  6. ^ "Associations" (PDF), Journal officiel de la République française, 144 (13): 1461, 31 March 2012