Annette Wieviorka is a French historian whose work centers on the Shoah and Jewish history in the 20th century. Her expertise in this field deepened following the publication of her doctoral dissertation. Wieviorka delves into the complexities of memory and forgetting surrounding these pivotal historical events. Her approach to writing examines the profound impact of historical occurrences on collective and individual consciousness.
What is the role of survivor testimony in Holocaust remembrance? Today such recollections are considered among the most compelling and important historical sources we have, but this has not always been true. In The Era of the Witness, a concise...