Olivier Wieviorka

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Olivier Wiewiorka
École Normale Supérieure de Saint-Cloud
Sciences Po
Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University
OccupationHistorian

Olivier Wiewiorka (born 1960)

École normale supérieure de Cachan
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He is the brother of historian Annette Wiewiorka and sociologist Michel Wiewiorka.[1]

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.[2]

Works

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

References

  1. ^ a b 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.