Olivier Wieviorka

Olivier Wiewiorka
2013
Born (1960-02-02) 2 February 1960
Enghien-les-Bains, France
Alma materÉcole Normale Supérieure de Saint-Cloud
Sciences Po
Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University
OccupationHistorian

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.

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.

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