Olivier Wieviorka

Olivier Wiewiorka (born 1960)^[1] 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.

Olivier Wiewiorka
2013
Born	(1960-02-02) 2 February 1960 (age 65) Enghien-les-Bains, France
Alma mater	École Normale Supérieure de Saint-Cloud Sciences Po Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University
Occupation	Historian

He is the brother of historian Annette Wiewiorka and sociologist Michel Wiewiorka.^[1]

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.^[2]

Works

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