by Annette Wieviorka · labutxaca · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9788499301808
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«Auschwitz explicat a la meva filla» is the historical essay by Annette Wieviorka, published by labutxaca in paperback (80 pages, in Catalan).
The historian Annette Wieviorka answers the questions of her thirteen-year-old daughter Mathilde, after seeing the number tattooed on the arm of Berthe, a survivor of Auschwitz. The book explains how the Holocaust was possible and why the Nazis exterminated millions of people for being Jewish, insisting on the need to keep asking questions.
Translated from the French by Carolina Badia Moraza. Original work: «Auschwitz expliqué à ma fille». Number 251 in the LABUTXACA collection.
A brief work, conceived as a dialogue between a mother and her daughter, which can serve as a starting point for addressing the Holocaust with young people.
Annette Wieviorka is a French historian. She is a specialist in the Holocaust and the history of the Jewish people in the 20th century since the 1992 publication of her thesis, Deportation and genocide between memory and forgetting, defended in 1991 at the Paris Nanterre University.
