Reference texts

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Israel, memory for the future
About Tom Segev’s "7th million"
by Georges Bensoussan (source: Revue de la Shoah no. 150)

Mixed ashes
Questions raised by the history of crimes against humanity
and the memory of the dead – 1943-1993
by Claire Ambroselli (source: Revue de la Shoah no. 151)

Money without memory
Degussa-Degesch
by Jacques Brillot (source: Revue de la Shoah no. 151)

Internment in all its forms
approach of an overview of the internment system in the Vichy area
by Christian Eggers (source: Revue de la Shoah no. 153)

Medical ethics and rights
fundamentals in Nuremberg
by Claire Ambroselli (source: Revue de la Shoah no. 156)

The genocide in Rwanda
by Jean-Pierre Chrétien (source: Revue de la Shoah no. 157)

Memories of past times
by Léon Poliakov (source: Revue de la Shoah no. 158)

On Shmuel Zygielbojm: Testimonies, autobiographical accounts, correspondence
by Nathan Weinstock (source: Revue de la Shoah no. 158)

The trial of the doctors
updating
by Yves Ternon (source: Revue de la Shoah no. 160)

Switzerland, the Swiss and the Holocaust
by Daniel Bourgeois (source: Revue de la Shoah no. 163)

Overview of Switzerland’s economic and financial relations with Germany
by Marc Perrenoud (source: Revue de la Shoah no. 163)

Nazism and the ideology of health: modern avatars of human dignity
by André Mineau, Gilbert Larochelle and Thomas de Koninck (source: Revue de la Shoah no. 164)

The Portuguese Wallenberg: Aristides de Sousa Mendes
by Rui Afonso (source: Revue de la Shoah no. 165)

Anti-gypsy regulations
in France and Germany before and during the Occupation
by Marie-Christine Hubert (source: Revue de la Shoah no. 167)

Negationism on Internet
genesis, strategies, antidotes
by Gilles Karmasyn, in collaboration with Gérard Panczer and Michel Fingerhut (source: Revue de la Shoah no. 170)

Darquier de Pellepoix, "champion" of French anti-Semites (1936-1939)
by Laurent Joly (source: Revue de la Shoah no. 173)

Work and the banality of evil
by Joseph Att (source: Revue de la Shoah no. 175)

Shoah literature, presentation
by Myriam Ruszniewski-Dahan (source: Revue de la Shoah no. 176)

Compare the genocides
by Yves Ternon (source: Revue de la Shoah no. 177-178)

A city so fiery
The communal administration of Liège and the persecution of Jews, 1940-1942
by Thierry Rozenblum (source: Revue de la Shoah no. 179)

Muslim anti-Semitism
a very current danger
by Robert S. Wistrich (source: Revue de la Shoah no. 180)

Babij Jar. The memory of history
by Boris Czerny (source: Revue de la Shoah no. 181)