Olivier Wieviorka Explained

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]

Works

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

Notes and References

  1. Encyclopedia: Astro . Alan . Annette Wiewiorka . 14 July 2021 . Shalvi/Hyman Encyclopedia of Jewish Women . . 30 September 2022.
  2. Web site: Annette Wiewiorka. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20120422092757/http://www.entretiens-yvescoppens-michelserres.fr/index.php?post%2F2009%2F05%2F29%2FAnnette-Wiewiorka. 2012-04-22. 2018-03-02.