About the Author

REN�E POZNANSKI, born in France to Holocaust survivors, graduated from the Sorbonne and the Institute of Political Science in Paris. She emigrated to Israel in 1973, where she is currently Yaakov and Poria Avnon Professor of Holocaust Studies at Ben Gurion University. This book, published in French by Hachette in 1999, received the Jacob Buchman Prize for the Memory of the Holocaust from The International Institute for Holocaust Research, Yad Vashem.