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Jean-Marc Dreyfus

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 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8106-5257

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Research interests

Current research projects

 

- Diplomats in the aftermath of deportation and the Holocaust (1945-2001)
- The death marches of Flössenburg: exhumations and the creation of the Honnor cemetery
- Corpses of genocide and mass violence: disposal of dead bodies in situation of extreme violence ; corpses in the aftermath of genocide: tracing, exhuming, commemorating
- The 'Garban mission': the French mission in search of deportees' corpses in post-Liberation France
- Historian writing about his own kin: the Meyer in Simard or the survival of an Alsatian Jewish family in the Holocaust
- The Petiot Affair and the Holocaust

Further information

I currently research and write on the following themes:
Holocaust studies
Genocide studies/anthropology of genocide
History of the Jews in Europe (19th-20th Century)
History of Jews in France (19th-20th Century)
Economic history of France and Germany
Holocaust memory/politics of memory
Modern history of Alsace
Rebuilding post-war societies

Supervision

I am very interested in supervising students working on the following topics:

  • - Camps, ghettos and internment in WWII Europe
  • - Economic aspects of the Holocaust. Looting of Jewish properties and compensation policies
  • - Holocaust memory in Europe and the United States
  • - Modern history of Jews.

I currently supervise or co-supervise a number of students in these areas:

  • Nicolas Laugel, University of Strasbourg, Alsatian Jews in the Holocaust 
  • Robert Kanter, A History of Jewish-Muslim Relations in the UK, c.1900-1999, with Daniel Langton
  • Caroline David, The looting of Alfred Spitzer’s art collection, with Simone Gigliotti, Royal Holloway; Linda Graul, Financial aryanisation in Luxembourg, University of Luxembourg

Teaching

The Holocaust: History, Historiography, Memory (y3)
Cultural Theories for Historian (MA)

Public History. Historians and the Public Sphere (MA)

A Transnational History of Europe in the 20th Century (y2)

Areas of expertise

  • DC France
  • Holocaust
  • Germany
  • Forensic Turn

Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

  1. SDG 16 - Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
    SDG 16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

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