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 n°150)

Ashes mixed
Questions posed by the history of crimes against humanity
and the memory of the dead – 1943-1993
by Claire Ambroselli (source: Revue de la Shoah n°151)

Money without memory
Degussa-Degesch
by Jacques Brillot (source: Revue de la Shoah n°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 n°153)

Medical ethics and rights
fundamentals in Nuremberg
by Claire Ambroselli (source: Revue de la Shoah n°156)

The genocide of Rwanda
by Jean-Pierre Chrétien (source: Revue de la Shoah n°157)

Memories of past times
by Léon Poliakov (source: Revue de la Shoah n°158)

About Shmuel Zygielbojm: Testimonies, autobiographical accounts, correspondence
by Nathan Weinstock (source: Revue de la Shoah n°158)

The trial of the doctors
update
by Yves Ternon (source: Revue de la Shoah n°160)

Switzerland, the Swiss and the Holocaust
by Daniel Bourgeois (source: Revue de la Shoah n°163)

Overview of Switzerland’s economic and financial relations with Germany
by Marc Perrenoud (source: Revue de la Shoah n°163)

Nazism and the ideology of health: the modern avatars of human dignity
by André Mineau, Gilbert Larochelle and Thomas de Koninck (source: Revue de la Shoah n°164)

The Portuguese Wallenberg: Aristides de Sousa Mendes
by Rui Afonso (source: Revue de la Shoah n°165)

The anti-Gypsy regulations
in France and in Germany before and during the Occupation
by Marie-Christine Hubert (source: Revue de la Shoah n°167)

Negationism on Internet
genesis, strategies, antidotes
by Gilles Karmasyn, in collaboration with Gérard Panczer and Michel Fingerhut (source: Revue de la Shoah n°170)

Darquier de Pellepoix, 'champion' of the French anti-Semites (1936-1939)
by Laurent Joly (source: Revue de la Shoah n°173)

Work and the banality of evil
by Joseph Torrent (source: Revue de la Shoah n°175)

Literature of the Shoah, presentation
by Myriam Ruszniewski-Dahan (source: Revue de la Shoah n°176)

Compare genocides
by Yves Ternon (source: Revue de la Shoah n°177-178)

A city so fiery
The municipal administration of Liège and the persecution of the Jews, 1940-1942
by Thierry Rozenblum (source: Revue de la Shoah n°179)

Muslim antisemitism
a very current danger
by Robert S. Wistrich (source: Revue de la Shoah n°180)

Babij Jar. The memory of history
by Boris Czerny (source: Revue de la Shoah n°181)