Annette Wieviorka

Family Annette Wieviorka's paternal grandparents, Polish Jews, were arrested in Nice during the war and murdered in Auschwitz. The grandfather, Wolf Wiewiorka, was born on 10 March 1896, in Minsk. The grandmother, Rosa Wiewiorka, née Feldman, was born on 10 August 1897, in Siedlce. Their last address in Nice was at 16 rue Reine Jeanne. They were deported by convoy No. 61, dated 28 October 1943, from Drancy internment camp to Auschwitz. They were detained before at Beaune-la-Rolande internment camp. Her father, a refugee in Switzerland, and her mother, daughter of a Parisian tailor, a refugee in Grenoble, survived the war. She is the sister of Michel Wieviorka, Sylvie Wieviorka, and Olivier Wieviorka. Training Annette Wieviorka has a history degree (1989) and a doctorate in history (1991). Her thesis, supervised by Annie Kriegel, is entitled Deportation and genocide: oblivion and memory 1943-1948: the case of the Jews in France. This thesis gave rise to a publication in 1992 by Plon. It was reissued in 2003 by Hachette editions. A committed historian During the 1970s, she was politically involved in the Maoist movement. From 1974 to 1976, she was a professor of French language and civilization in Guangzhou. She is involved with the Primo Levi Center (care and support for victims of torture and political violence) as a member of its support committee. Academic career Research director at the CNRS, she was a member of the Study Mission on the Spoliation of Jews in France, known as the Mattéoli Mission. Accolades Wieviorka was awarded the 2022 Prix Femina essai for Tombeaux : autobiographie de ma famille. ==Publications==

• ''L'Écureuil de Chine'', Paris, Les presses d'aujourd'hui, 1979 (livre de souvenirs autobiographiques sur son séjour en Chine de 1974 à 1976 - wiewiórka means "squirrel" in Polish) • Ils étaient juifs, résistants, communistes, Denoël, 1986 • Le procès de Nuremberg, Ouest-France/Mémorial de Caen, Rennes, Paris, 1995 • with Jean-Jacques Becker (dir.), Les Juifs de France, Éditions Liana Levi, « Histoire », 1998 • Auschwitz expliqué à ma fille, Éditions du Seuil, Paris, 1999 • ''L'Ère du témoin'', Hachette, « Pluriel », Paris, 2002. • ''Déportation et génocide. Entre la mémoire et l'oubli'', Hachette, « Pluriel », Paris, 2003. • Auschwitz, 60 ans après, Robert Laffont, Paris, 2005 Également publié sous le titre ''Auschwitz, la mémoire d'un lieu'', Hachette, « Pluriel », Paris, 2006 • Juifs et Polonais : 1939 à nos jours, Albin Michel, coll. « Bibliothèque histoire », Paris, 2009 • Maurice et Jeannette. Biographie du couple Thorez, Fayard, Paris, 2010 compte rendu de l'ouvrage • Eichmann de la Traque au Procès, André Versaille, Bruxelles, 2011 . Également publié sous le titre Le Procès Eichmann, Complexe, « La Mémoire du Siècle », Bruxelles, 1989 • ''L'Heure d'exactitude; Histoire, mémoire, témoignage'', (Entretiens avec Séverine Nikel), Albin Michel, 2011 • Nouvelles perspectives sur la Shoah, PUF, Paris, 2013, 128 p. . • 1945, La découverte, Seuil, Paris, janvier 2015, 282 p. . • with (dir.), Le moment Eichmann, Albin Michel, 2016 • with , ''Tristes grossesses : l'affaire des époux Bac (1953-1956)'', Paris, Le Seuil, 2019. • Mes années chinoises, Stock, 2021. , réédition Points , 2024 • Tombeaux : Autobiographie de ma famille, Éditions du Seuil, Paris, 2022, 400 p. • ''Anatomie de l'Affiche rouge'', Éditions du Seuil, Paris, 2024 == Filmography ==

• Le procès d'Adolf Eichmann [The Trial of Adolf Eichmann] (1997), written by Annette Wieviorka and Michaël Prazan, directed by Michaël Prazan. • 14 récits d'Auschwitz [14 Stories from Auschwitz] (2002), a documentary series proposed by Annette Wieviorka, creator and writer, with Henri Borlant, directed by Caroline Roulet.This documentary was produced in conjunction with Annette Wieviorka's participation in a program of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies of Yale University. • Témoignages pour Mémoire [Testimony for Memory] (2007), written by Annette Wieviorka, Geneviève Decrop, Claudine Drame, and Régine Waintrater (English translation by Ruth Rachel Anderson-Avraham, also a producer on the project), directed by Claudine Drame. • Le procès d'Adolf Eichmann [The Trial of Adolf Eichmann] (2011) Infrarouge, written by Annette Wieviorka and Michaël Prazan, directed by Michaël Prazan. ==References==