Histoire des grands-parents que je n'ai pas eus

Synopsis of Histoire des grands-parents que je n'ai pas eus

«Histoire des grands-parents que je n'ai pas eus» is the historical essay by Ivan Jablonka, published by Éditions du Seuil in paperback.

Ivan Jablonka investigates the lives of his grandparents, Polish Jews he never came to know, in the context of the experience of Polish Jews in France during the Second World War. The work combines biographical reconstruction with reflection on family, the writing of history and the transmission of Holocaust memory.

Published in 2012 in the collection «La Librairie du XXIe siècle»; the edition includes a glossary and bibliographic references.

For readers of contemporary history, especially those interested in the Holocaust, family memory and biographical writing.