Olivier Wiewiorka
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)[1] 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.[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.
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