Olivier Wieviorka

Olivier Wieviorka (* 1960 ) is a French historian.

Life

family

He is the brother of Annette Wieviorka , Sylvie Wieviorka and Michel Wieviorka .

His paternal grandparents, Polish Jews , were arrested in Nice during the Second World War and died in Auschwitz . The grandfather, Wolf Wiewiorka, was born on March 10, 1896 in Minsk . The grandmother, Rosa Wiewiorka, b. Feldman was born on August 10, 1897 in Siedlce . Your last address in Nice is 16 Rue Reine Jeanne. They are deported from the Drancy assembly camp to Auschwitz in convoy No. 61 on October 28, 1943 . They are previously held at Camp Beaune-la-Rolande1. His father, a refugee in Switzerland, and his mother, the daughter of a Parisian tailor who had sought refuge in Grenoble, survived the war.

Education

He studied at the École normal supérieure de Saint-Cloud (1980-1984), a graduate of the civil service section of the Institut d'études politiques de Paris (1982) and earned the Agrégation d'histoire (1984) and the Diplôme d'études approfondies Histoire du XXe Siècle at the IEP Paris (1985). He was a doctoral student at the University of Orléans (1985–1987) and a scholarship from the Thiers Foundation (1988–1992).

He received his doctorate in 1992 from the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne under the direction of Antoine Prost Destins d'un mouvement de résistance. Defense de la France . His habilitation , Vichysme, attentisme, résistances (1940–1945) , was completed in 1999 under Jean-Pierre Azéma .

University career

Wieviorka is a specialist in the 20th century, especially during the Second World War and the French resistance movement.

Maître de conférences at the University of Valenciennes (1993–1996) and then at the École normal supérieure Lettres et sciences humaines (1996–2000), he was also a lecturer at the Institut d'études politiques de Paris (1989–2009).

He has been a professor at the École normal supérieure Paris-Saclay since 2000 and was a senior member of the Institut universitaire de France between October 2011 and October 2016 . Editor of the Vingtième Siècle magazine . Revue d'histoire , member of the editorial board of L'Histoire between June 2004 and April 2014 . He also works for the Liberation newspaper's supplement Livres .

controversy

In his book Histoire du Débarquement en Normandie, Des origines à la liberation de Paris , he writes that Canadian soldiers of Indian origin scalped the prisoners. Canadian historian Scott Sheffield , a professor at the University of the Fraser Valley , Abbotsford, British Columbia , an expert on the Aboriginal Canadian Army , disproves this claim: I spoke to a number of Native and non-Native people. I've written tons of books on the subject and searched almost every archival document. I have never read or heard of anything about it.

Fonts (selection)

• with Jean-Pierre Azéma : Les Liberations de la France . La Martinière, Paris 1993, ISBN 2-7324-2013-1 .
• with Vincent Milliot : Méthode pour le commentaire et la dissertation historiques . Nathan, Paris 1994, ISBN 2091905410 .
  • with Vincent Milliot: Méthode pour le commentaire et la dissertation historiques . 2nd edition, Colin, Paris 2005, ISBN 2200342438 .
• Nous entrerons in the carrière. De la Resistance à l'exercice du pouvoir . Seuil, Paris 1994, ISBN 2020156768 .