Annette Wieviorka
Annette Wieviorka is a research director at the CNRS. She is the author of numerous articles and books on the history of Jews in the 20th Century, as well as on genocide and its memory, notably Déportation et génocide (Plon, 1992), L'Ere du témoin (Plon, 1998), and Auschwitz expliqué à ma fille (Le Seuil, 1999), which was translated into 12 different languages and was published here in English as Auschwitz Explained to My Child (Marlowe & Company, 2002). She was awarded the Prix Mémoire de la Shoah in 2000.