Constance Pâris de Bollardière is the Assistant Director of the George and Irina Schaeffer Center for the Study of Genocide, Human Rights and Confliction Prevention at The American University of Paris.
Her historical research focuses on social and cultural reconstruction among Yiddish-speaking Holocaust survivors in the early postwar period. She also works on Holocaust survivor testimonies, from early productions in Yiddish to more recent collections of video interviews.
Among her publications, she co-edited, with Sharon Kangisser Cohen, After the Darkness? Holocaust Survivors’ Emotional, Psychological and Social Journeys in the Early Postwar Period (Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 2023); with Simon Perego, “Jewish Migrations from Central and Eastern Europe to France in the Early Aftermath of the Shoah [in French]”, Archives Juives. Revue d’histoire des Juifs de France, 54 (1), 2021; and was the scientific editor of: Marek Edelman, Warsaw Ghetto. Recovered Notebooks [in French] (Paris: Odile Jacob, 2022).
