by Annette Wieviorka · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9782020366991
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«Auschwitz expliqué à ma fille» is the historical essay by Annette Wieviorka, published by Seuil (59 pages, in French).
In this book, historian Annette Wieviorka answers her teenage daughter's questions to explain what Auschwitz was and why the Nazis exterminated millions of European Jews during World War II. With a clear and direct tone, the dialogue reflects on the reasons for the genocide and the difficulty of conveying it.
The work belongs to the «Expliqué à» series from Seuil and was originally published in France in 1999.
The book is aimed at teenagers and young adults, and serves as a first introduction to the history of the Holocaust.
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.
