"In search of our patriots and martyrs”: The French mission exhuming the corpses of deportees in Germany, 1946-1960

This is an-person event in Seminar Room 108N, North House, Munk School, 1 Devonshire Place, Toronto, Ontario.

 

Jean-Marc Dreyfus is a Professor at the University of Manchester and associate researcher at the Centre of History, Sciences-Po Paris. He is a specialist of the economic and diplomatic aspects of the Holocaust and post-war reparations. His research considers other genocides, Jewish history in Europe and exhumations of corpses after mass violence. He also works and looted art in the Holocaust and the unfinished restitution process.  Jean-Marc Dreyfus’ current research is three folded. It considers the question of looted art in this Holocaust and its legacy; he is interested in the personal narrative and the microhistorical approaches of Holocaust victims; he considers the question of the ‘forensic turn’ in Holocaust studies, the ‘forensic turn’ being the studies of human remains’ treatment during and after the genocide, including their uses for commemorative purposes.

 

Sponsored by Centre for the Study of France and the Francophone World (CEFMF) and co-sponosred by Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies.