Olivier Wiewiorka | |
Birth Date: | 2 February 1960 |
Birth Place: | Enghien-les-Bains, France |
Alma Mater: | École Normale Supérieure de Saint-Cloud Sciences Po Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University |
Occupation: | Historian |
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.[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]
Normandy: The Landings to the Liberation of Paris (Harvard University Press, 2018)