Olivier Wieviorka (born 1960), is a French

historian A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the st ...

specializing in the history of

World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposing ...

and the French Resistance. He is a faculty member at the

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. He is the brother of historian Annette Wieviorka and sociologist

Michel Wieviorka Michel Wieviorka (born 23 August 1946, Paris) is a French sociologist, noted for his work on violence, terrorism, racism, social movements and the theory of social change. He was the 16th president of International Sociological Association (200 ...

. 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

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, survived the war.

Works

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

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Wieviorka, Olivier 1960 births Living people 20th-century French historians French people of Polish-Jewish descent Historians of World War II Historians of Vichy France 21st-century French historians